Definitions for pencil

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pencil pen·cil

Spelling: [pen-suh l]

IPA: /ˈpɛn səl/

Pencil is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 95 anagrams from letters in pencil (ceilnp).

Definitions for pencil

noun

1. a slender tube of wood, metal, plastic, etc., containing a core or strip of graphite, a solid coloring material, or the like, used for writing or drawing.
2. a stick of cosmetic coloring material for use on the eyebrows, eyelids, etc.
3. anything shaped or used like a pencil, as a stick of medicated material:
4. a narrow set of lines, light rays, or the like, diverging from or converging to a point:
5. a slender, pointed piece of a substance used for marking.
6. style or skill in drawing or delineation:
7. Mathematics. the collection of lines, planes, or surfaces passing through a given point or set of points and satisfying a given equation or condition.
8. Archaic. an artist's paintbrush, especially for fine work.

Verb phrases

1. pencil in, to schedule or list tentatively, as or as if by writing down in pencil rather than in ink:

verb (used with object)

1. to write, draw, mark, or color with, or as if with, a pencil.
2. to use a pencil on.

Origin of pencil

1350-1400; Middle English pencel Middle French pincel ≪ Latin pēnicillus painter's brush or pencil, diminutive of pēniculus little tail. See penis, Examples for pencil

If you saw it in front of you, your pencil would drop, your tablet would fall from your lap.

And then one pencil drawing of my face, and one pencil drawing of the Genie from Aladdin.

So, I had a pen and a pencil and started scribbling and drawing, and I felt good about it.

He read with pencil in hand, and he had an elaborate system of marking a book.

McCollough and Hernandez, who normally sketch with paper and pencil, pushed themselves this season by utilizing colored pencils.

In this instance, his drawings throughout are in pencil, and he is his own topographer.

I had a clipboard with a yellow piece of paper on it and a pencil over my ear.

She drew it in pencil on an envelope on her way back in the street car.

"This is my address," said the merchant, writing it in pencil, and handing it to Robert.

With these words, he handed the pencil to the professor and returned to his seat.