pencil

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Household, Painting and drawingpencilpen‧cil1 /ˈpensəl/ S2 noun [countable, uncountable] Image of pencil

DHWRITEan instrument that you use for writing or drawing, consisting of a wooden stick with a thin piece of a black or coloured substance in the middle a sharp pencil a blue pencilin pencil a note written in pencil a pencil sketch → eyebrow pencilExamples from the Corpuspencil• Anyone got a pencil and paper?• Friedman argued that no single person, even a Nobel laureate, could make a pencil.• As the children arrive, give them a pencil and paper and ask them to join one of three or four groups.• Another picture, a pen and pencil drawing, is a more devastating exposure still.• The teacher's cool pencil charts normal against the brown of the girl's cheek.• There were several colors of pencils, even a slide rule, at which she was frowning.• a red pencil• Let the students see that the student is able to cover both sides without lifting the pencil. in pencil• Do the math problems in pencil , not pen.pencilpencil2 verb (pencilled, pencilling British English, penciled, penciling American English) [transitive] WRITEto write something or make a mark with a pencil a name pencilled on the envelope → pencil somebody/something ↔ in→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpuspencil• With clear signs of a recovery, analysts are pencilling in a modest profit for the full year.• A hearing has been pencilled in for September 17.• We may pencil in the forest and the ponds.• She can pencil in the weight she hopes to be at the end of each month.• I found her name penciled inside the back cover of the book.• We wander through it like Casaubon, clutching lists we've pencilled on the backs of envelopes.Origin pencil1 (1300-1400) Old French pincel “paintbrush”, from Latin penicillus “little tail”, from penis; → PENIS

单词	pencil
释义	pencil From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Household, Painting and drawingpencilpen‧cil1 /ˈpensəl/ ●●● S2 noun [countable, uncountable] DHWRITEan instrument that you use for writing or drawing, consisting of a wooden stick with a thin piece of a black or coloured substance in the middle a sharp pencil a blue pencilin pencil a note written in pencil a pencil sketch → eyebrow pencilExamples from the Corpuspencil• Anyone got a pencil and paper?• Friedman argued that no single person, even a Nobel laureate, could make a pencil.• As the children arrive, give them a pencil and paper and ask them to join one of three or four groups.• Another picture, a pen and pencil drawing, is a more devastating exposure still.• The teacher's cool pencil charts normal against the brown of the girl's cheek.• There were several colors of pencils, even a slide rule, at which she was frowning.• a red pencil• Let the students see that the student is able to cover both sides without lifting the pencil. in pencil• Do the math problems in pencil , not pen.pencilpencil2 verb (pencilled, pencilling British English, penciled, penciling American English) [transitive] WRITEto write something or make a mark with a pencil a name pencilled on the envelope → pencil somebody/something ↔ in→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpuspencil• With clear signs of a recovery, analysts are pencilling in a modest profit for the full year.• A hearing has been pencilled in for September 17.• We may pencil in the forest and the ponds.• She can pencil in the weight she hopes to be at the end of each month.• I found her name penciled inside the back cover of the book.• We wander through it like Casaubon, clutching lists we've pencilled on the backs of envelopes.Origin pencil1 (1300-1400) Old French pincel “paintbrush”, from Latin penicillus “little tail”, from penis; → PENIS
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