pencil

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Signification (English)

1. 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) A small medicated bougie.
6. Ellipsis of power of the pencil.

crayon

crayon de bois

écrire au crayon

pointiller

writing instrument

writing brush

writing implement

paint-brush

painter’s brush

small brush of hair

light cone

cone of light

hair pencil

light pencil

Fréquence

Coupé comme

pen‧cil

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈpɛnsəl/

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.

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