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pencil English

Meaning pencil meaning

What does pencil mean?
Definitions in simple English

pencil Noun

— A pencil is used for writing on paper. It is made of wood, and has a pencil "lead" that goes through the middle.

pencil

— noun a thin cylindrical pointed writing implement; a rod of marking substance encased in wood — noun a cosmetic in a long thin stick; designed to be applied to a particular part of the face an eyebrow pencil — noun a figure formed by a set of straight lines or light rays meeting at a point — noun graphite (or a similar substance) used in such a way as to be a medium of communication the words were scribbled in pencil this artist's favorite medium is pencil — verb write, draw, or trace with a pencil he penciled a figure

Synonyms pencil synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as pencil?

pencil English » English

pen draw crayon sketch writing instrument writing implement writing brush portray plot lead design brush tuft trace tick tag sunburst stick small brush of hair shaft score scheme schedule rough out propose propelling pencil project plumb plat plan pin peg painter’s brush paint-brush model mechanical pencil mark map light pencil light cone lead pencil lay out label jot down hair pencil gleam frame engineer draught draft

Topics pencil topics

What do people use pencil to talk about?
Language and thought Communication Reading and writing

Write
Work and occupation Occupation Art

Draw, paint
Daily life Adornment

Cosmetics

Conjugation pencil conjugation

How do you conjugate pencil?

pencil · verb

Examples pencil examples

How do I use pencil in a sentence?

Simple sentences

This is a pencil.
Do you have a pencil?
This is a pencil and that is a pen.
Give me back my pencil.
Tom didn't have a pencil.
I forgot my pencil case at home.
Do you have a pencil about you?
You dropped your pencil.
Can I use your pencil?
Put down your pencil.
Put down your pencil and listen to me.
I've lost my pencil.
I have lost my pencil.
Have you got a pencil?
Please write with a pencil.
Write with a pen, not with a pencil.
Please write your name with a pencil.
You nearly poked me in the eye with your pencil.

Movie subtitles

You use a pencil, not a paint brush.
Does anybody wanna buy a lead pencil?
A red pencil!
Give me pencil and paper, quick.
Dope, you got a pencil?
We gave him pencil and paper.
It's in pencil.
Yes, madam? - A pencil.
We also need a dance director who can count to 40 without a pad and pencil.
As I'm coming to the backstretch with a pencil, I feel the long arm of John Law on my shoulder.
You fill in all the spaces in the O's with your pencil. I was watching.
Take pencil and paper.
And a pencil.
A pencil, silly.
You see, I couldn't' find a pencil in town.
This is. what pencil erasers look like before they're born.
See all the little pencil erasers trying to erase each other?
Eyebrow pencil, lipstick.
See, I fitted this little piece of pencil lead under the dial and when your professor spun it it went around with the dial and made a mark each time.
Is a pencil all right? - Of course not, idiot!
Well, is a pencil all right, sir?
Do you mind if I take the time to go and get a pencil?
Not even a sharp pencil.
Better get a pencil and take it down.
A pencil box.
You broke my pencil box.
May I borrow your pencil? - Sure.
Be glad to. May I have your pencil?
Barney, do you have any pad and pencil?
Nothing works! Not even a sharp pencil.
Perhaps you'd better get a pencil and take it down.
If you have to write, write with a pencil.
Then would you mind getting a pencil and paper?
May I borrow your pencil?
Have you a pencil?
I don't see a pencil, so maybe she better call you back.
I would have taken it down, only I couldn't find a pencil. I looked.

News and current affairs

If you announce that you intend to balance the books over five years and pencil in a lot of spending cuts, consumers, relieved of their fears of future tax increases, will start spending more freely.
It took thousands of people all over the world to make this pencil, Friedman said - to mine the graphite, cut the wood, assemble the components, and market the final product.
More than 30 years later, there is an interesting coda to the pencil story (which in fact was based on an article by the economist Leonard E. Read).
A modern-day Friedman might want to ask how China has come to dominate the pencil industry, as it has so many others.
Yet the tens of thousands of workers that pencil factories in China employ would most likely have remained poor farmers if the government had not given market forces a nudge to get the industry off the ground.

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