pencil

Meaning of pencil

noun
  1. A paintbrush.
  2. 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. An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point.
  4. 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.
  5. A small medicated bougie.
verb
  1. To write (something) using a pencil.
    I penciled (BrE: pencilled) a brief reminder in my notebook.
  2. To mark with, or as if with, a pencil.

Information about pencil

  • The plural form of pencil is: pencils.
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Hyphenation of pencil

pen-cil

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • pencil is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Translation of pencil

Words that rhyme with pencil

Dibencil, depencil, hyperpencil, stencil, anticouncil, council, subcouncil

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