Sekirov Dictionary

pencil

/ˈpɛnsɪl/

noun 7
verb 2
forms 5
phrases 6

noun7

a thin stick of wood around a soft black or colored center, used to make marks on paper that can be removed
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An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point.
- [T]hey all ran off into the night to the miser’s ruined castle, with its solitary pencil of light in its high turret chamber[.] — 1936
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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 […] — 1863
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Ellipsis of power of the pencil.
- And most important of all, Cully now had 'The Pencil', that most coveted of Las Vegas powers. — 1978
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(historical) A paintbrush.
- But living art may not least part expresse, / Nor life-resembling pencill it can paynt[…]. — 1590
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(no longer used) A small, thin tuft of hairs or feathers.
- It is almost entirely of a slatey colour, with yellow bill and feet, but the feathers of the rump and upper tail-coverts each terminate in a rigid, glossy pencil or tuft of a vivid crimson. — 1869
(no longer used, rare) A small medicated bougie.

verb2

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To write (something) using a pencil.
- I penciled (BrE: pencilled) a brief reminder in my notebook.
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To mark with, or as if with, a pencil.
- It pencilled each flower with rich and variegated hues, and threw over its exuberant foliage a vesture of emerald green. — 1852

forms

penciled · pencilled · penciling · pencilling · pencils

Phrases with pencil

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