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Definition of pencil

a thin cylindrical pointed writing implement; a rod of marking substance encased in wood
a cosmetic in a long thin stick; designed to be applied to a particular part of the face; "an eyebrow pencil"
a figure formed by a set of straight lines or light rays meeting at a point
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"
write, draw, or trace with a pencil; "he penciled a figure"

Hyponyms: lead pencil, slate pencil

Entailments: trace, draw, line, describe, delineate

Language Translations:
Albanian: laps		Basque: arkatz
Bulgarian: молив		Chinese: 铅笔
Danish: blyant		Dutch: potlood
Esperanto: krajono		Finnish: lyijykynä
French: crayon		Frisian: poatlead
German: (non-colored) Bleistift		Greek: μολύβι
Hebrew: עפרון		Hungarian: ceruza
Icelandic: blýantur		Indonesian: pensil
Interlingua: stilo		Irish: peann luaidhe
Italian: matita		Japanese: 鉛筆
Korean: 연필		Latvian: zīmulis
Macedonian: молив		Norwegian: blyant
Polish: ołówek		Portuguese: lápis
Romanian: creion		Russian: карандаш
Serbian: olovka		Slovak: ceruza
Slovene: svinčnik		Spanish: lápiz
Swedish: blyertspenna		Telugu: పెన్సిలు
Turkish: kalem

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