pencil
铅笔,钢笔,笔筒,笔
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- : a slender tube of wood, metal, plastic, etc., containing a core or strip of graphite, a solid coloring material, or the like, used for writing or drawing.
- : a stick of cosmetic coloring material for use on the eyebrows, eyelids, etc.
- : anything shaped or used like a pencil, as a stick of medicated material: a styptic pencil.
- : a narrow set of lines, light rays, or the like, diverging from or converging to a point: a pencil of sunlight.
- : a slender, pointed piece of a substance used for marking.
- : style or skill in drawing or delineation: He favored the late products of the artist's pencil.
- : Mathematics. the collection of lines, planes, or surfaces passing through a given point or set of points and satisfying a given equation or condition.
- : Archaic. an artist's paintbrush, especially for fine work.
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pen·ciled, pen·cil·ing or pen·cilled, pen·cil·ling.
- : to write, draw, mark, or color with, or as if with, a pencil.
- : to use a pencil on.
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- : pencil in, to schedule or list tentatively, as or as if by writing down in pencil rather than in ink: I'll pencil you in for ten o'clock.
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Or, if you hate sharpening, you can consider opting for mechanical pencils.
To make sure that their germs stay with them, students shouldn’t share art supplies, pencils or paper, Kaushal says.
Perron worked out the first six dimensions with pencil and paper, but by the 1990s, researchers had learned how to translate Keller’s conjecture into a completely different form — one that allowed them to apply computers to the problem.
Smooth, continuous curves are the ones you’d likely draw if you sat down with pencil and paper.
There’s a famous story about the fact that no one person knows how to make a pencil.
So, I had a pen and a pencil and started scribbling and drawing, and I felt good about it.
And then one pencil drawing of my face, and one pencil drawing of the Genie from Aladdin.
Then he tagged me in one of his posts, and it was a horrific pencil drawing of my face.
If you saw it in front of you, your pencil would drop, your tablet would fall from your lap.
Collectively, they span almost every technique and medium—from color pencil and markers to oil sticks and watercolor.
A little boy aged two years and four months was deprived of a pencil from Thursday to Sunday for scribbling on the wall-paper.
And sure enough when Sunday came, and the pencil was restored to him, he promptly showed nurse his picture.
We are so many around here that you'll have to get paper and pencil and mark us down to keep track of how many.
He had written his name with pencil upon a leaf which he tore from his pocket-book, and sent it to the Marchioness.
During my schooldays I spent many happy hours alone with book or pen or pencil.