0 a coloured liquid that you put on a surface to decorate it -- pintura
1 to make a picture of something or someone using paint -- pintar
3 a colored substance brushed onto a surface -- pintura [ feminine, singular ]
4 to add color to something by applying paint to it -- pintar
Precisely because of the imposition of limits, the paint industry has undergone a period of intensive innovation, the end of which is still a long way off.
I am, for example, pleased that we adopted an amendment to the effect that paints and varnishes should not contain substances classified as carcinogens, mutagens or substances toxic to reproduction.
In the medium- and long-terms, there would, indeed, be an increase in the applications of the paint necessary and, therefore, inevitably, an increase in emissions.
The fact is also to be welcomed that 70% of decorative paints are now water-based.
Sometimes it was small garage paint-shops, sometimes it was domestic use of paint, sometimes it was other substances in other places.
We must move towards water-based paints, and it is time that rules were drafted to that effect.
What is missing in the puzzle is the piece that regulates paint thinners.
The picture brightened even further today in the form of the rapporteur's speech, but the picture that is being painted is still far removed from the truth.