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English

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Selection of colored pencils.

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Etymology

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FromAnglo-Norman andOld Frenchpincil (see the variantpincel, which gave rise to Modern Frenchpinceau(“paintbrush”)), fromLatinpēnicillum, diminutive ofpēniculus(“brush”), itself a diminutive ofpēnis(“tail; penis”). Not related topen.

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Noun

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pencil (pluralpencils)

  1. (now chiefly historical) Apaintbrush.[from 14th c.]
  2. A writing utensil with agraphite (commonly referred to aslead)shaft, usually blended withclay,clad in wood, and sharpened to a taper.[from 16th c.]
    Synonym:lead pencil
  3. (optics) Anaggregate orcollection ofrays oflight, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point.[from 17th c.]
  4. (geometry) Afamily ofgeometric objects with a commonproperty, such as the set of lines that pass through a given point in a projective plane.[from 19th c.]
    • 1863,The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal:
      When, by thepencil becoming oblique to the surface, the vergency produced on the pencil becomes changed, the primary and secondary focal points, V and H, separate[…]
    • 1987, R. E. Trahan,Applied Identification, Modelling and Simulation, page107:
      A drillable robot is capable of placing its end link in any orientation in thepencil of planes containing its first link.
    • 2012, G. E. Martin,The Foundations of Geometry and the Non-Euclidean Plane, page357:
      Letl andm be two hyperparallel lines. All the transversals tol andm that form congruent corresponding angles withl andm lie in apencil.
  5. (medicine, obsolete, rare) A smallmedicatedbougie.[19th c.]
  6. (gambling)Ellipsis ofpower of the pencil.
    • 1978, Mario Puzo,Fools Die:
      And most important of all, Cully now had 'ThePencil', that most coveted of Las Vegas powers.

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Descendants

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Translations

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graphite writing-instrument
slate writing-instrument

Verb

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pencil (third-person singular simple presentpencils,present participle(US)pencilingor(UK)pencilling,simple past and past participle(US)penciledor(UK)pencilled)

  1. (transitive) Towrite (something) using apencil.
    Ipenciled (BrE:pencilled) a brief reminder in my notebook.
    • 1888,Thomas Hardy, “An Imaginative Woman”, inWessex Tales:
      She had hardly got back when she encountered a piece by Robert Trewe in the new number of her favourite magazine, which must have been written almost immediately before her visit to Solentsea, for it contained the very couplet she had seenpencilled on the wallpaper by the bed, and Mrs. Hooper had declared to be recent.
  2. (transitive) To mark with, or as if with, apencil.
    • 1852,The Ark, and Odd Fellows' Western Magazine:
      Itpencilled each flower with rich and variegated hues, and threw over its exuberant foliage a vesture of emerald green.

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Translations

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to write with pencil
to mark with pencil

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Indonesian

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Etymology

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Inherited fromMalaypencil.

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Verb

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pêncil

  1. (transitive) toisolate; todetach:To set apart or cut off from others.

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Malay

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Etymology

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Possibly borrowed from or cognate of Javanesepencil.

Pronunciation

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  • (Baku)IPA(key): /pənˈt͡ʃil/ [pəɲˈt͡ʃil]
  • Hyphenation:pen‧cil

Verb

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pĕncil (Jawi spellingڤنچيل)

  1. (transitive) toisolate; todetach:To set apart or cut off from others.[1]

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Descendants

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  • > Indonesian:pencil(inherited)

References

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  1. ^“pencil”, inKamus Dewan [The Institute Dictionary] (in Malay), Fourth edition, Kuala Lumpur:Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka,2005,→ISBN

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