pencil

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈpɛnsɪl/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A paintbrush. historical
    — But living art may not least part expresse, / Nor life-resembling pencill it can paynt[…].
  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.
    — When, by the pencil becoming oblique to the surface, the vergency produced on the pencil becomes changed, the primary and secondary focal points, V and H, separate […]
  5. A small medicated bougie. obsolete,rare
  6. A small, thin tuft of hairs or feathers.
    — It is almost entirely of a slatey colour, with yellow bill and feet, but the feathers of the rump and upper tail-coverts each terminate in a rigid, glossy pencil or tuft of a vivid crimson.
  7. Ellipsis of power of the pencil. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis
    — And most important of all, Cully now had 'The Pencil', that most coveted of Las Vegas powers.
动词 v.
  1. To write (something) using a pencil. transitive
    — I penciled (BrE: pencilled) a brief reminder in my notebook.
  2. To mark with, or as if with, a pencil. transitive
    — It pencilled each flower with rich and variegated hues, and threw over its exuberant foliage a vesture of emerald green.

词形变化

pencils plural pensill alternative,obsolete pencils present,singular,third-person penciling US,participle,present pencilling UK,participle,present penciled US,participle,past penciled US,past pencilled UK,participle,past pencilled UK,past pensill alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

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词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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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