(n.) An implement for drawing, made of clay and plumbago, or of some preparation of chalk, usually sold in small prisms or cylinders.
(n.) A crayon drawing.
(n.) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.
(v. t.) To sketch, as with a crayon; to sketch or plan.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tiny, tiny... rodents – some soft and grey, some brown with black stripes, in paintings, posters, wallcharts, thumb-tacked magazine clippings and poorly executed crayon drawings, hurling themselves fatally in their thousands over the cliff of their island home; or crudely taxidermied and mounted, eyes glazed and little paws frozen stiff – on every available surface.
(2) Each subject selected one of six color crayons (red, yellow, green, blue, brown, or purple) to color the boy "to look" angry, happy, or sad.
(3) And when I began to write, at about the age of seven – stories in pencil with crayon illustrations, which my poor mother was obligated to read – I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading.
(4) During these years in Italy, Twombly's output sometimes reflected developments in the rest of the world: for example, as minimalist artists were creating a stir in America and Europe , in the late 1960s Twombly executed six monochrome canvases, the Treatise on the Veil, which are completely blank apart from measurements written in crayon over the grey paint.
(5) The Indonesian broadcasting commission has told RCTI, the private television network that airs the Crayon Shin-chan series, to either cut “indecent” parts of the programme or show it at a later time, when it will be missed by many in its target audience: young children.
(6) When I was eight or nine in kindergarten, I told stories about this weird kid in class who drew with black crayons.
(7) In the second group, the children were given the same promises, but they received the crayons and stickers as expected.
(8) Keita sent me a picture of the concept, a drawing he’d done on the top of a cardboard box in crayon,” recalls Hunicke.
(9) Children in the first group were given small boxes of crayons and promised larger boxes, which failed to materialise.
(10) Chip Lambert only sees the hopes for his absurd film script through the same eyes as the reader when he notices that the paper the film producer has given to her daughter for her crayoning ("ivory coloured" with "text on its reverse") is indeed that very script.
(11) Pictures of the bunks show crayon etchings of houses and smiling faces, hopeful images that could have been drawn by children in schools anywhere in the country.
(12) From the ink lines of a shirt pocket with spectacles poking out in a 1968 sketch of Christopher Isherwood, to the Fair Isle pattern of a jumper worn by Ossie Clark in an almost smudgy crayon picture from 1970 , clothes often feel part of the Hockney narrative or atmosphere.
(13) Crayons (2008) was her first studio album of new material for 17 years, and reached the US top 20.
(14) It’s like the partition of India – they just got a blue crayon out.
(15) The hinds were run with crayon-harnessed stags from insertion of CIDR devices (12 March or 9 April) and blood samples were taken every second day to determine plasma progesterone.
(16) She remembers how one mother would leave paper and a crayon in the hole for her daughter.
(17) With his penchant for mooning and blurting out risqué spoonerisms, Crayon Shin-chan has delighted Japanese children, and infuriated their parents, for more than two decades.
(18) It is the refusal to get dressed when you're in a rush, to brush their teeth, to use crayons on paper only, and not on the floor and furniture.
(19) They’re ‘anar-chics’, delinquents of the crayon and pen.” Zineb el-Rhazoui retorts: “People say we should respect religion, but our attitude to religion is the same as it is to any other ideology.” Willem keeps saying he has to go, but Florence offers him another glass of Côtes, and he stays.
(20) I really don’t see why they’re in such a rush to whitewash some of the work that I have done, and who I am and how I’ve identified,” Dolezal said on Tuesday, adding that at age five she “was drawing self-portraits with the brown crayon instead of the peach crayon”.
Pencil
Definition:
(n.) A small, fine brush of hair or bristles used by painters for laying on colors.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Hence, figuratively, an artist's ability or peculiar manner; also, in general, the act or occupation of the artist, descriptive writer, etc.
(n.) An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point.
(n.) A number of lines that intersect in one point, the point of intersection being called the pencil point.
(n.) A small medicated bougie.
(v. t.) To write or mark with a pencil; to paint or to draw.
Example Sentences:
(1) Analysts have trimmed their profit forecasts for this year with trading profits of £3.3bn pencilled in compared with £3.5bn in 2012-13.
(2) There is a developmental sequence of pencil grasp, and useful development scales in copying cube models, drawing geometric shapes, and the draw-a-man test.
(3) Comparing results of different stereotests, e.g., random-dot stereograms and the two-pencil test, provides some insight into different levels of cortical binocular interaction.
(4) We took all the feedback from users and put pencil to paper to create our consumer 3D printer built for speed and ease of use,” said Pettis.
(5) The influence of the parameters' inclination and curving of condylar guidance, intercondylar distance, Bennett angle, distance of the plate, and position of the recording pencil are studied.
(6) A numerical example reveals some lesser known properties of the circle of least confusion of astigmatic pencils.
(7) A 5-year-old boy had an excisional biopsy of a pigmented scleral lesion thought clinically to be a foreign body, probably graphite from a pencil.
(8) said: “The Bank of England seems all but certain to ease policy, with only the scale and form of easing in question.” Monks is predicting a bigger cut than many of his peers in the City, pencilling in a drop in official interest rates to zero.
(9) An illusion is something done one way that looks the other, like if you put a mirror in front of a pencil so the pencil looks like it's somewhere else.
(10) Twenty-nine women were obtained from two community-based facilities and administered the 10-item Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EDPS) in a computerised and 'pencil and paper' form.
(11) Differential pencil beam (DPB) is defined as the dose distribution relative to the position of the first collision, per unit collision density, for a monoenergetic pencil beam of photons in an infinite homogeneous medium of unit density.
(12) While that is higher than the 1.6% decline that statisticians had previously pencilled in, it will have no impact on an initial estimate for first quarter GDP growth of 0.3% – half the pace in the previous three months .
(13) Some can't afford their own uniforms or pencil tins and we have to teach them the most basic things, like how to queue up for dinner,” said Cater-Whitham.
(14) The drugmaker has also pencilled in mid- to high-single digit growth from emerging markets, building on growth in China, where it saw revenues leap by 22% in the first quarter of this year.
(15) In recent years there has been growing conceptual interest in narcissism, coupled with the rapid development of several paper and pencil measures.
(16) A case of mediastinitis occurred following perforation of the pharynx by a pencil.
(17) His pencil or pastel notes, readjusts, notes again with more emphasis the advancing or receding edge of a continually moving body.
(18) The first scratch of an HB pencil across the fresh page of a new notebook.
(19) Sources say the Sun has pencilled in September for the erection of its paywall.
(20) Psychological instruments are usually developed to subjectively measure specific variables; however, there may not be a fit if the researcher used a paper-and-pencil instrument developed to measure anxiety in psychiatric patients to measure anxiety in the sedated, postanesthesia patient.