Meaning of pencil | Babel Free

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1. A paintbrush.
   historical
2. A mixture of graphite and clay in stick form covered by a hard casing. The greater the clay element, the harder the pencil.
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 long, thin instrument (usually of wood) containing a thin stick of graphite or some similar solid substance for writing or drawing. This pencil needs sharpening / to be sharpened; He wrote in pencil; (also adjective) a pencil sharpener. potlood قَلَم رَصاص молив lápis tužka der (Blei)Stift, Bleistift... blyant; blyants- μολύβιlápiz pliiats مداد lyijykynä crayon עִפָּרוֹן पेंसिल olovka, pisaljka ceruza pensil blÿantur matita 鉛筆 연필 pieštukas zīmulis pensel potloodblyantołówek پنسل lápis creio...
   usually
5. An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point.
6. to write or draw with a pencil. He pencilled an outline of the house. teken met potlood يَكْتُب بالقَلَم пиша с молив desenhar a lápis psát/kreslit tužkou zeichnen skrive med blyant γράφω, σχεδιάζω με μολύβι escribir con lápiz pliiatsiga kirjutama, pliiatsiga joonistama با مداد نوشتن یا کشیدن kirjoittaa lyijykynällä écrire/dessiner au crayon לִכתוֹב בְּעִפָּרוֹן लिखना, अंकित करना, चित्रित करना pisati, crtati ceruzával ír, rajzol menggambar dengan pensil skrifa/teikna með blÿanti scrivere/dise...
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.
8. A narrow, generally cylindrical implement for writing, drawing, or marking, consisting of a thin rod of graphite, colored wax, or similar substance encased in wood or held in a mechanical holder.
9. A small medicated bougie.
   obsolete, rare
10. Something shaped or used like a pencil, especially a narrow medicated or cosmetic stick: an eyebrow pencil.
11. Ellipsis of power of the pencil.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
12. A style or technique in drawing or delineating.
13. Physics A beam of radiant energy in the form of a narrow cone or cylinder.
    Physics
14. Mathematics A family of geometric objects, such as lines, that have a common property, such as passage through a given line in a given plane.
    Mathematics
15. To write or produce by using a pencil.
16. To mark or color with or as if with a pencil.

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Examples

“But living art may not least part expresse, / Nor life-resembling pencill it can paynt[…].”

“why is it not lawfull for every man to pourtray himself with his pen, as it was for him to doe it with a pensell?”

“He requested three things of Sir Joshua Reynolds:—To forgive him thirty pounds which he had borrowed of him; to read the Bible; and never to use his pencil on a Sunday.”

“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 […]”

“A drillable robot is capable of placing its end link in any orientation in the pencil of planes containing its first link.”

“Let l and m be two hyperparallel lines. All the transversals to l and m that form congruent corresponding angles with l and m lie in a pencil.”

“And most important of all, Cully now had 'The Pencil', that most coveted of Las Vegas powers.”

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