English
Noun
paint thinner (countable and uncountable, plural paint thinners)
- Any of several solvents used to thin oil-based paints or to clean up after their use.
- Hypernyms: thinner (elliptically synonymous) < liquid < substance
2004, Mickey Baskett, Fabulous Painted Furniture, page 13:Pour a solvent such as paint thinner, mineral spirits, or a liquid sandpaper product in a metal can or enamel bowl. Wear protective gloves.
- (humorous) Rotgut; especially, distilled rotgut.
- Near-synonym: jet fuel
Translations
solvent
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: разреди́тел (bg) m (razredítel)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 天拿水 (tin1 naa4 seoi2)
- Mandarin: 稀釋液 / 稀释液 (xīshìyè), 稀釋劑 / 稀释剂 (zh) (xīshìjì)
- Dutch: thinner (nl) m
- Finnish: tinneri (fi)
- French: diluant à peinture m
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Farbverdünner (de) m, Lackverdünner m, Universalverdünnung f
- Hindi: please add this translation if you can
- Hungarian: hígító (hu)
- Italian: diluente nitro m
- Japanese: シンナー (ja) (shinnā)
- Malay: please add this translation if you can
- Portuguese: tíner (pt) m, diluente
- Romanian: diluant de vopsea m
- Russian: разбави́тель для кра́ски m (razbavítelʹ dlja kráski), раствори́тель для кра́ски m (rastvorítelʹ dlja kráski)
- Spanish: diluyente (es) m, adelgazador / rebajador de pinturas m, thinner m (zíner), disolvente (es) m, tíner (es) m, thiner m, tíñer (es) m, zéner (es) m, decapante (es) m
- Swedish: thinner (sv) c
- Tamil: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: tiner (tr)
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