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DAUB

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An unskillful painting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("daub" is a kind of...):

painting; picture (graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A blemish made by dirt

Example:

he had a smudge on his cheek

Synonyms:

blot; daub; slur; smear; smirch; smudge; spot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("daub" is a kind of...):

blemish; defect; mar (a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "daub"):

blotch; splodge; splotch (an irregularly shaped spot)

fingermark; fingerprint (a smudge made by a (dirty) finger)

inkblot (a blot made with ink)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Material used to daub walls

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("daub" is a kind of...):

clay (a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired)

Derivation:

daub (cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it)

daub (apply to a surface)

daub (coat with plaster)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it

Example:

daub the ceiling with plaster

Synonyms:

daub; smear

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "daub" is one way to...):

cover (provide with a covering or cause to be covered)

Verb group:

daub (apply to a surface)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "daub"):

blood (smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

daub (material used to daub walls)

dauber (an unskilled painter)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Apply to a surface

Example:

daub paint onto the wall

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "daub" is one way to...):

apply; put on (apply to a surface)

Verb group:

daub; plaster (coat with plaster)

daub; smear (cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something PP

Sentence examples:

They daub the bread with melted butter

They daub butter on the bread

Derivation:

daub (material used to daub walls)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Coat with plaster

Example:

daub the wall

Synonyms:

daub; plaster

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "daub" is one way to...):

coat; surface (put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface)

Verb group:

daub (apply to a surface)

Domain category:

masonry (the craft of a mason)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "daub"):

render-set (cover with two coats of plaster)

parget (apply ornamental plaster to)

roughcast (apply roughcast to)

mud (plaster with mud)

mortar (plaster with mortar)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

daub (material used to daub walls)

daubing (the application of plaster)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Beyond it there lay amid the trees the wattle-and-daub hut of a laborer, the door open, and the single room exposed to the view.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But before this, they had daubed my face and both my hands with a sort of ointment, very pleasant to the smell, which, in a few minutes, removed all the smart of their arrows.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Over the fireplace were suspended six or seven shields of wood, with coats-of-arms rudely daubed upon them, which showed by their varying degrees of smokiness and dirt that they had been placed there at different periods.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)