Definitions for stencil

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stencil sten·cil

Spelling: [sten-suh l]

IPA: /ˈstɛn səl/

Stencil is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 230 anagrams from letters in stencil (ceilnst).

Definitions for stencil

noun

1. a device for applying a pattern, design, words, etc., to a surface, consisting of a thin sheet of cardboard, metal, or other material from which figures or letters have been cut out, a coloring substance, ink, etc., being rubbed, brushed, or pressed over the sheet, passing through the perforations and onto the surface.
2. the letters, designs, etc., produced on a surface by this method.

verb (used with object)

1. to mark or paint (a surface) by means of a stencil.
2. to produce (letters, figures, designs, etc.) by means of a stencil.

Origin of stencil

1375-1425; earlier stanesile, late Middle English stansele to ornament with diverse colors or spangles Middle French estanceler, derivative of estencele a spark, ornamental spangle Vulgar Lat

Examples for stencil

Often, too, they were coloured by stencil plates or freely by hand.

When it is to be used with a stencil it must be made thicker than when it is used with a brush.

Put in the hem so that the stencil will be sure to be straight.

Only the parts unprotected by the stencil will take the colour.

Then the stencil had to be taken from the roller that the latter might be inked again.

As the microbes moved toward the light to carry out photosynthesis, they projected the image of the stencil.

A Banksyesque stencil of Einstein carries a sign bearing the most unBanksyesque: message LOVE IS THE ANSWER.

You should have a set of stencil letters and mark every battery you rebuild or repair.

Gordon picked up a pair secondhand and began to stencil then onto blank canvases with spray paint.

I am sure you will agree with me when you know how to stencil.