Pencil

Noun

 * 1)  A paintbrush.
 * 2) Writing utensil that uses graphite (commonly referred to as lead). Regular pencils usually have a graphite shaft surrounded by wood. Also available in a mechanical version where the graphite length can be adjusted and sharpening is not needed.

Derived terms

 * charcoal pencil
 * coloured pencil
 * golf pencil
 * grease pencil
 * lead pencil


 * mechanical pencil
 * number 2 pencil
 * pencil lead
 * pencil pusher
 * pencil sharpener


 * pencil skirt
 * pencil stub
 * smencil

Verb

 * 1) to write something using a pencil
 * I penciled (BrEn: pencilled) it in my notebook.
 * 1) To squeeze something -- such as a meeting, feature, or appointment -- into a tight schedule
 * I am very busy today but I can pencil you in at 3 p.m.
 * 1) To tentatively make a booking.

Derived terms

 * pencil in

Adjectives for Pencil
stubby; artistic; energetic; mechanical; unsharpened; blunt; coarse.

Verbs for Pencil
clasp—; depict with—; draw with—; drum with—; poise—; scribble with—; sharpen —; tip—; —copies; —dashes off; —delineates; —inscribes; —jots; —marks; —outlines; —scrawls; —scurries; sketches; — tattoos; —tints.

Thesaurus
X ray, actinic ray, actinism, air brush, art paper, atomic beam, atomic ray, beam, beam of light, blaze, blaze a trail, blemish, blotch, brand, brush, camera lucida, camera obscura, canvas, cartoon, chalk, chalk up, charcoal, check, check off, cicatrize, color, copy, copy out, crayon, crosshatch, dapple, dash, dash off, daub, define, delimit, delineate, demarcate, depict, design, diagram, discolor, doodle, dot, draft, draw, draw up, drawing paper, drawing pencil, drier, easel, edit, enface, engrave, engross, fixative, fleck, freckle, gamma ray, gash, genre, gleam, ground, hatch, impress, imprint, infrared ray, inscribe, invisible radiation, lay figure, leam, limn, line, lines, make a mark, make a recension, make out, mark, mark off, mark out, maulstick, medium, mottle, movement, nick, notch, paint, paint a picture, paintbrush, palette, palette knife, pastel, patch, pen, pepper, photon, picture, picturize, pigments, point, portray, prick, print, punch, punctuate, puncture, push the pen, put in writing, radiation, radiorays, ray, ray of light, recense, record, revise, rewrite, ribbon, ribbon of light, riddle, scar, scarify, school, score, scotch, scratch, scratchboard, scribe, scrive, scroll, scumble, seal, seam, shade, siccative, sketch, sketchbook, sketchpad, solar rays, spatula, speck, speckle, spill ink, splotch, spoil paper, spot, spray gun, stain, stamp, stencil, stigmatize, streak, stream, stream of light, streamer, striate, stripe, stump, style, superscribe, tattoo, the grand style, tick, tick off, tint, trace, transcribe, type, ultraviolet ray, underline, underscore, varnish, violet ray, write, write down, write out

Etymology
From and  pincil: (modern pinceau:), from  diminutive peniculus:, from noun penis: + diminutive suffix -culus.

Noun

 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic:, قلم رصاص
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: arkatz, lapitz
 * Belarusian: аловак, карандаш
 * Bengali: পেনসিল
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: llapis
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: tužka, olůvko (hist.)
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ფანქარი
 * German: (non-colored), (colored)
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic:
 * Guaraní: haiha
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: पेन्सिल
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: pensil, potlot
 * Interlingua: stilo (de graphite)
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kalo Finnish Romani:


 * Korean: (鉛筆)
 * Kurdish:
 * Lao: ສໍ, ສໍດໍາ
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: zīmulis
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luxembourgish: Bläistëft, Kräijong
 * Macedonian:
 * Marathi: पेन्सिल
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: creion
 * Russian:
 * Serbian: ,
 * Sinhalese: පැන්සල
 * Slovak: ceruza, ceruzka
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog:
 * Telugu: పెన్సిలు (pensilu)
 * Tetum: lapis
 * Thai: ดินสอ
 * Turkish: kalem, karakalem
 * Turkmen: galam
 * Ukrainian: олівець
 * Urdu: پنسل
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: stib
 * West Frisian:


 * German: Griffel, Tafelstift


 * Volapük: gliv

Verb

 * Finnish:


 * Finnish: alustava varaus


 * French: poser une option