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Definition of Pencil
1. Verb. Write, draw, or trace with a pencil. "He penciled a figure"
2. Noun. A thin cylindrical pointed writing implement; a rod of marking substance encased in wood.
Terms within: Point, Pencil Eraser, Rubber, Rubber Eraser, Peak, Point, Tip
Generic synonyms: Writing Implement
3. Noun. Graphite (or a similar substance) used in such a way as to be a medium of communication. "This artist's favorite medium is pencil"
4. Noun. A figure formed by a set of straight lines or light rays meeting at a point.
5. Noun. A cosmetic in a long thin stick; designed to be applied to a particular part of the face. "An eyebrow pencil"
Definition of Pencil
1. n. A small, fine brush of hair or bristles used by painters for laying on colors.
2. v. t. To write or mark with a pencil; to paint or to draw.
Definition of Pencil
1. Noun. (obsolete) A paintbrush. ¹
2. Noun. Writing utensil that uses graphite (commonly referred to as lead). Regular pencils usually have a graphite shaft surrounded by wood. Also available in a mechanical version where the graphite length can be adjusted and sharpening is not needed. ¹
3. Noun. (geometry) 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. ¹
4. Verb. to write something using a pencil ¹
5. Verb. To tentatively make a booking or appointment. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pencil
1. to produce by using a pencil (a writing and drawing implement) [v -CILED, -CILING, -CILS or -CILLED, -CILLING, -CILS]
Medical Definition of Pencil
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1. A small, fine brush of hair or bristles used by painters for laying on colours. "With subtile pencil depainted was this storie." (Chaucer)
2. A slender cylinder or strip of black lead, coloured chalk, slate etc, or such a cylinder or strip inserted in a small wooden rod intended to be pointed, or in a case, which forms a handle, used for drawing or writing. See Graphite.
3. Hence, figuratively, an artist's ability or peculiar manner; also, in general, the act or occupation of the artist, descriptive writer, etc.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Pencil
Literary usage of Pencil
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Analogously for the pencil, where, however, distances are replaced not by ...
The ruling notion in the doctrine of the range (pencil) is the anhar- monic ..."
2. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"To a row is reciprocal an ax ¡at pencil, S 42. As other examples we have the
following:— „ a field of points and lines,, a pencil of planes and lines, ..."
3. Projective Geometry by Oswald Veblen, John Wesley Young (1918)
"Hence in this case also Cf and C% belong to a pencil of Type I. In each case the
facts established make it clear that the two circles could not both be ..."
4. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1843)
"COMBINANTS OF A pencil OF QUADRIC SURFACES. II BY JA TODD Received 15 January
1947 1 . In the first paper of this series* I have explained a method by which ..."
5. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1883)
"Hemp hit I, ¡end me your pencil, please, I never can find mine when / need ;"/.''
" Why do you not have one of KIGGINS & TOOKER Co.'s Patent pencil Loop ..."
6. The American Journal of Education by Henry Barnard (1862)
"What geometrical figures would be produced by cutting the pencil perpendicularly
across, obliquely, or in a way parallel to the axis Î In placing the pencil ..."
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