Dictionary Entry
pencil
pencil is a 6-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A small, fine brush of hair or bristles used by painters for laying on colors. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 14 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A small, fine brush of hair or bristles used by painters for laying on colors.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
Hence, figuratively, an artist's ability or peculiar manner; also, in general, the act or occupation of the artist, descriptive writer, etc.
- 4noun
An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point.
- 5noun
A number of lines that intersect in one point, the point of intersection being called the pencil point.
- 6noun
A small medicated bougie.
- 7transitive verb
To write or mark with a pencil; to paint or to draw.
- 8noun
a thin cylindrical pointed writing implement; a rod of marking substance encased in wood
- 9noun
a cosmetic in a long thin stick; designed to be applied to a particular part of the face
"an eyebrow pencil"
- 10noun
a figure formed by a set of straight lines or light rays meeting at a point
- 11noun
graphite (or a similar substance) used in such a way as to be a medium of communication
"the words were scribbled in pencil"
"this artist's favorite medium is pencil"
- 12verb
write, draw, or trace with a pencil
"he penciled a figure"
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