pencil

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Related topics: Household, Painting and drawing

pen·cil1 /ˈpensəl/ S2 noun [countableC, uncountableU]

DHWRITEan instrument that you use for writing or drawing, consisting of a wooden stick with a thin piece of a black or coloured substance in the middle 铅笔

a sharp pencil

尖尖的铅笔

a blue pencil

蓝色铅笔

in pencil

a note written in pencil

用铅笔写的便条

a pencil sketch

铅笔速写

→ eyebrow pencil →4 See picture on 见图 Page A8 In the office 办公室里 →4 See picture of 见图 STATIONERY →5 see picture at 见图 office, stationery

Examples from the Corpus

pencil• Anyone got a pencil and paper?• Friedman argued that no single person, even a Nobel laureate, could make a pencil.• As the children arrive, give them a pencil and paper and ask them to join one of three or four groups.• Another picture, a pen and pencil drawing, is a more devastating exposure still.• The teacher's cool pencil charts normal against the brown of the girl's cheek.• There were several colors of pencils, even a slide rule, at which she was frowning.• a red pencil• Let the students see that the student is able to cover both sides without lifting the pencil.

in pencil• Do the math problems in pencil , not pen.

pencil2 verb (pencilled, pencilling British EnglishBrE, penciled, penciling American EnglishAmE) [transitiveT]

1 WRITEto write something or make a mark with a pencil 用铅笔写[标记]

a name pencilled on the envelope

用铅笔写在信封上的名字

2 pencil somebody/something ↔ in phrasal verbphr v ARRANGE A MEETING, EVENT ETCto make an arrangement for a meeting or other event, knowing that it might have to be changed later 暂定；暂时安排〔会面等〕

Pickford has been pencilled in as Robson’s replacement.

皮克福德被暂定为罗布森的接替者。

Examples from the Corpus

pencil in• Does he have to work hard to control the pencil?• There were boxes of coloured crayons and wax, lead pencils and paints in colours he never knew existed.• Use colored pencils to fill in each section.• The pencils are sold in hardware and building supply stores.• Tweed was watching him closely, pencil gripped in his hand but motionless.• Until he was 70 he drew in pencil and in pen and wash with great neatness.• Place five in the pencil pot in the kitchen.• Why on the sturdy stem of farmers and merchants should one girl blossom into a story-teller in pencil and in words?

Examples from the Corpus

pencil• With clear signs of a recovery, analysts are pencilling in a modest profit for the full year.• A hearing has been pencilled in for September 17.• Hoare said last night it now expected to be trimming its full year forecast back from the £30m pencilled in so far.• We may pencil in the forest and the ponds.• She can pencil in the weight she hopes to be at the end of each month.• I found her name penciled inside the back cover of the book.• We wander through it like Casaubon, clutching lists we've pencilled on the backs of envelopes.

Origin pencil1

(1300-1400) Old French pincel “paintbrush”, from Latin penicillus “little tail”, from penis; → PENIS

pen·cil1 nounpencil2 verb

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