Main Difference
The main difference between Paint and Ink is that the Paint is a colored composition applied over a surface that dries as a solid film and Ink is a liquid or paste that contains pigments or dyes.
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Paint
Paint is any pigmented liquid, liquefiable, or mastic composition that, after application to a substrate in a thin layer, converts to a solid film. It is most commonly used to protect, color, or provide texture to objects. Paint can be made or purchased in many colors—and in many different types, such as watercolor, synthetic, etc. Paint is typically stored, sold, and applied as a liquid, but most types dry into a solid.
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Ink
Ink is a liquid or paste that contains pigments or dyes and is used to color a surface to produce an image, text, or design. Ink is used for drawing or writing with a pen, brush, or quill. Thicker inks, in paste form, are used extensively in letterpress and lithographic printing.
Ink can be a complex medium, composed of solvents, pigments, dyes, resins, lubricants, solubilizers, surfactants, particulate matter, fluorescents, and other materials. The components of inks serve many purposes; the ink’s carrier, colorants, and other additives affect the flow and thickness of the ink and its dry appearance.
In 2011 worldwide consumption of printing inks generated revenues of more than 20 billion US dollars. Demand by traditional print media is shrinking, on the other hand more and more printing inks are consumed for packagings.
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Paint (noun)
A substance that is applied as a liquid or paste, and dries into a solid coating that protects or adds color/colour to an object or surface to which it has been applied.
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Paint (noun)
A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting pictures.
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Paint (noun)
The free-throw lane, construed with the.
“The Nimrods are strong on the outside, but not very good in the paint.”
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Paint (noun)
Paintballs.
“I am running low on paint for my marker.”
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Paint (noun)
A face card (king, queen, or jack).
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Paint (noun)
Graphics drawn using an input device, not scanned or generated.
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Paint (noun)
Makeup.
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Paint (verb)
To apply paint to.
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Paint (verb)
To apply in the manner that paint is applied.
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Paint (verb)
To cover (something) with spots of colour, like paint.
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Paint (verb)
To create (an image) with paints.
“to paint a portrait or a landscape”
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Paint (verb)
To practise the art of painting pictures.
“I’ve been painting since I was a young child.”
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Paint (verb)
To draw an element in a graphical user interface.
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Paint (verb)
To depict or portray.
“She sued the author of the biography, claiming it painted her as a duplicitous fraud.”
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Paint (verb)
To color one’s face by way of beautifying it.
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Paint (verb)
To direct a radar beam toward.
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Ink (noun)
A pigment (or dye)-based fluid used for writing, printing etc.
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Ink (noun)
A particular type, color or container of this fluid.
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Ink (noun)
The black or dark-colored fluid ejected by squid, octopus etc, as a protective strategy.
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Ink (noun)
Publicity.
“The TSA has been getting a lot of ink lately.”
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Ink (noun)
Tattoo work.
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Ink (noun)
Cheap red wine.
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Ink (verb)
To ink to; to cover or smear with ink.
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Ink (verb)
To sign (a contract or similar document).
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Ink (verb)
To apply a tattoo to (someone).
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Ink (verb)
to eject ink (sense 3)