pencil

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. (historical) A paintbrush.
2. A writing utensil with a graphite (commonly referred to as lead) shaft, usually blended with clay, clad in wood, and sharpened to a taper.
3. An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point.
4. 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.
5. (obsolete, rare) A small medicated bougie.
6. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of power of the pencil.

Verb

1. (transitive) To write (something) using a pencil.
2. (transitive) To mark with, or as if with, a pencil.

Concepts

crayon

📝

stylo

🖊️

dessiner

crayonner

esquisser

griffonner

illustrer

laver

🧽

lever

pocher

👊

portraiturer

tracer

charbonner

crayon de bois

délaver

écrire au crayon

gribouiller

pointiller

porte-mine

bâton

stylomine

croquer

dresser

ébaucher

Synonymes

pen

🖊️

crayon

🖍️

draw

sketch

lead

writing instrument

plot

portray

brush

writing brush

writing implement

design

draught

engineer

frame

gleam

jot down

label

🏷️

lay out

lead pencil

map

mark

model

paint-brush

peg

pin

plan

plat

plumb

project

propelling pencil

propose

schedule

scheme

score

shaft

stick

sunburst

tag

tick

rough out

trace

tuft

mechanical pencil

painter’s brush

small brush of hair

light cone

cone of light

hair pencil

beam

Traductions

Bleistift

📝

lápiz

📝

matita

📝

potlood

📝

lápis

📝

μολύβι

llapis

📝

plumbum

Stift

lapis

📝

قلم

kalem

🖊️

kurşun kalem

σχεδιάζω

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈpɛnsəl/

Étymologie (Anglais)

From Anglo-Norman and Old French pincil (see the variant pincel, which gave rise to Modern French pinceau (“paintbrush”)), from Latin pēnicillum, diminutive of pēniculus (“brush”), itself a diminutive of pēnis (“tail; penis”). Not related to pen.

Phrases

Prior to that , interviews were administered using paper and pencil .

Avant cela, les entretiens ont été administrés à l'aide de papier et de crayon.