| 释义 |
pen·cil
I. \ˈpen(t)sə̇l\ noun
(-s)
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English pensel, pencel, from Middle French pincel, from (assumed) Vulgar Latin penicellus, from Latin penicillus brush, pencil, literally, little tail, diminutive of penis tail, penis — more at penis
1. : a brush of hair or bristles used to lay on colors; especially : a small brush for fine art work
2. : the individual style or technique of an artist or descriptive writer
3. : a tufted growth (as of hair or feathers)
4.
a. : an implement for writing, drawing, or marking made of or containing a slender rod or strip of a solid marking substance:
(1) : a stick of marking substance (as chalk, slate) often encased in paper — see grease pencil
(2) : a wooden rod containing a core of marking substance exposed at one end by sharpening and often having an eraser on the other end
< corrected with a red pencil >
< a pencil sketch >
— see lead pencil
(3) : a mechanical device consisting of a cylinder of metal or plastic containing a lead projected by means of a screw
b. : a small medicated or cosmetic roll or stick for local applications
< a menthol pencil >
c. : a writing or marking device resembling a pencil that uses another means of marking
< etched by a hot electric pencil >
5.
a. : an aggregate of rays of light or other radiation especially when diverging from or converging to a point
b. : the lines passing through a given point and lying on a plane
6. : something long and thin like a pencil
< the flashlight sent a long, white pencil of illumination stabbing through the darkness — Erle Stanley Gardner >
7. : pencil diamond
8. : graphite used as the marking substance in pencils
< written in pencil rather than in ink >
< a page half typewritten and half pencil >
II. verb
(penciled or pencilled ; penciled or pencilled ; penciling or pencilling \-s(ə̇)liŋ\ ; pencils)
transitive verb
1.
a. : to paint, draw, shade, write, or mark with or as if with a pencil
< a typewritten manuscript with corrections penciled in >
: sketch
< pencil in a cartoon with rapid strokes >
b. : to make a tentative plan of : write (as an assignment) subject to change
< had been penciled in for the lead — Budd Schulberg >
2. : to treat (as a wound) by means of a medicated pencil
intransitive verb
: to take the shape of a pencil : form into pencils
< rays of light penciling through the darkness >
< the pale smoke from the cottage chimneys pencil up — William Sansom >
III.
variant of pencel |