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Pencil
Definitions
- 1 A paintbrush. historical
"But living art may not least part expresse, / Nor life-resembling pencill it can paynt[…]."
- 2 a thin cylindrical pointed writing implement; a rod of marking substance encased in wood wordnet
- 3 A writing utensil with a graphite (commonly referred to as lead) shaft, usually blended with clay, clad in wood, and sharpened to a taper.
- 4 a cosmetic in a long thin stick; designed to be applied to a particular part of the face wordnet
- 5 An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point.
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- 6 a figure formed by a set of straight lines or light rays meeting at a point wordnet
- 7 A family of geometric objects with a common property, such as the set of lines that pass through a given point in a projective plane.
"When, by the pencil becoming oblique to the surface, the vergency produced on the pencil becomes changed, the primary and secondary focal points, V and H, separate […]"
- 8 graphite (or a similar substance) used in such a way as to be a medium of communication wordnet
- 9 A small medicated bougie. obsolete, rare
- 10 Ellipsis of power of the pencil. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
"And most important of all, Cully now had 'The Pencil', that most coveted of Las Vegas powers."
- 1 To write (something) using a pencil. transitive
"I penciled (BrE: pencilled) a brief reminder in my notebook."
- 2 write, draw, or trace with a pencil wordnet
- 3 To mark with, or as if with, a pencil. transitive
"It pencilled each flower with rich and variegated hues, and threw over its exuberant foliage a vesture of emerald green."
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman and Old French pincil (see the variant pincel, which gave rise to Modern French pinceau (“paintbrush”)), from Latin pēnicillum, diminutive of pēniculus (“brush”), itself a diminutive of pēnis (“tail; penis”). Not related to pen.
From Anglo-Norman and Old French pincil (see the variant pincel, which gave rise to Modern French pinceau (“paintbrush”)), from Latin pēnicillum, diminutive of pēniculus (“brush”), itself a diminutive of pēnis (“tail; penis”). Not related to pen.
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