Definition of Pencil

Pencil A small, fine brush of hair or bristles used by painters for laying on colors. A slender cylinder or strip of black lead, colored chalk, slate etc., or such a cylinder or strip inserted in a small wooden rod intended to be pointed, or in a case, which forms a handle, -- used for drawing or writing. See Graphite. Hence, figuratively, an artist's ability or peculiar manner; also, in general, the act or occupation of the artist, descriptive writer, etc. An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point. A number of lines that intersect in one point, the point of intersection being called the pencil point. A small medicated bougie. To write or mark with a pencil; to paint or to draw. Related Definitions: Ability, Act, Aggregate, Also, An, Artist, Be, Being, Black, Bougie, Brush, By, Called, Case, Chalk, Collection, Colored, Converging, Cylinder, Descriptive, Diverging, Draw, Drawing, Especially, Fine, For, From, General, Graphite, Hair, Handle, Hence, In, Inserted, Intended, Intersect, Intersection, Laying, Lead, Light, Manner, Mark, Medicated, Number, Occupation, Of, On, One, Or, Paint, Peculiar, Pencil, Point, Pointed, Rod, See, Slate, Slender, Small, Strip, Such, That, The, To, Used, When, Which, With, Wooden, Write, Writer, Writing

Pencil Quotations I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. Mother Teresa People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph. Walt Disney Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away. Earl Nightingale Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. Dwight D. Eisenhower I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool. John Steinbeck In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing. Vincent Van Gogh The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Francis Bacon Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. Gilbert K. Chesterton I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil. Truman Capote I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning. Samuel Beckett

Pencil Translations pencil in Danish is blyant pencil in Dutch is potlood pencil in French is crayon pencil in German is Bleistift pencil in Hungarian is kis ecset, ceruza, rudacska pencil in Italian is lapis pencil in Latin is penicullus pencil in Norwegian is blyant pencil in Swedish is penna (blyerts-), pensel, blyertspenna