Main Difference
The main difference between Paint and Varnish is that the Paint is a colored composition applied over a surface that dries as a solid film and Varnish is a transparent, hard, protective finish or film used in painting
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.
Varnish
Varnish is a clear transparent hard protective finish or film. Varnish has little or no color and has no added pigment as opposed to paint or wood stain which contains pigment. However, some varnish products are marketed as a combined stain and varnish. Varnish is primarily used in wood finishing applications where the natural tones and grains in the wood are intended to be visible. It is applied over wood stains as a final step to achieve a film for gloss and protection. Varnish finishes are usually glossy but may be designed to produce satin or semi-gloss sheens by the addition of “flatting” agents.
The term “varnish” refers to the finished appearance of the product. It is not a term for any single or specific chemical composition or formula. There are many different compositions that achieve a varnish effect when applied. A distinction between spirit-drying (and generally removable) “lacquers” and chemical-cure “varnishes” (generally thermosets containing “drying” oils) is common, but varnish is a broad term historically and the distinction is not strict.
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.
Paint (noun)
A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting pictures.
Paint (noun)
The free-throw lane, construed with the.
“The Nimrods are strong on the outside, but not very good in the paint.”
Paint (noun)
Paintballs.
“I am running low on paint for my marker.”
Paint (noun)
A face card (king, queen, or jack).
Paint (noun)
Graphics drawn using an input device, not scanned or generated.
Paint (noun)
Makeup.
Paint (verb)
To apply paint to.
Paint (verb)
To apply in the manner that paint is applied.
Paint (verb)
To cover (something) with spots of colour, like paint.
Paint (verb)
To create (an image) with paints.
“to paint a portrait or a landscape”
Paint (verb)
To practise the art of painting pictures.
“I’ve been painting since I was a young child.”
Paint (verb)
To draw an element in a graphical user interface.
Paint (verb)
To depict or portray.
“She sued the author of the biography, claiming it painted her as a duplicitous fraud.”
Paint (verb)
To color one’s face by way of beautifying it.
Paint (verb)
To direct a radar beam toward.
Varnish (noun)
A type of paint with a solvent that evaporates to leave a hard, transparent, glossy film.
Varnish (noun)
Anything resembling such a paint; glossy appearance.
Varnish (noun)
A deceptively showy appearance.
Varnish (noun)
a passenger train, probably derived from the varnished passenger cars used at one time.
Varnish (verb)
To apply varnish.
Varnish (verb)
To cover up with varnish.
Varnish (verb)
To gloss over a defect.
Varnish (noun)
resin dissolved in a liquid for applying on wood, metal, or other materials to form a hard, clear, shiny surface when dry
“the wood was stained with a dark varnish”
“several coats of varnish”
Varnish (noun)
short for nail varnish
“her fingernails were painted with pink varnish”
Varnish (noun)
an external or superficially attractive appearance of a specific quality
“an outward varnish of civilization”
Varnish (verb)
apply varnish to
“we stripped the floor and varnished it”
“her toenails were varnished red”
Varnish (verb)
disguise or gloss over (a fact)
“they varnished over their vices, and exaggerated their merit”