pencil

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A paintbrush.

   “But living art may not least part expresse, / Nor life-resembling pencill it can paynt[…].”

2. isim 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. isim An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point.
4. isim 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. isim A small medicated bougie.
6. isim 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. isim Ellipsis of power of the pencil.

   “And most important of all, Cully now had 'The Pencil', that most coveted of Las Vegas powers.”

8. fiil To write (something) using a pencil.

   “I penciled (BrE: pencilled) a brief reminder in my notebook.”

9. fiil To mark with, or as if with, a pencil.

   “It pencilled each flower with rich and variegated hues, and threw over its exuberant foliage a vesture of emerald green.”