Meaning

1 senses

  1. To apply graphite to.

Examples

3 sentences

  1. Two kinds of lubricant are used on a bicycle--oil and graphite.

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  2. Only oil of the best quality and pure graphite should be used.

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  3. No graphite pencils, food, tobacco, chewing gum, lighters, matches, or pocketknives will be permitted inside the clean room.

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Origin

Borrowed from German Graphit (A. G. Werner 1789), from Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō, “to wr

Borrowed from German Graphit (A. G. Werner 1789), from Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō, “to write”).

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Forms

graphites, graphiting, graphited, graphited
Base formgraphite · to graphite
3rd person singulargraphites
Present participlegraphiting
Past simplegraphited
Past participlegraphited

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theygraphite
he, she, itgraphites

Past simpleLesson

all personsgraphited

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave graphited
he, she, ithas graphited

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill graphite

Word family

1 related words
RelateddiamondA2

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
graphenegraphicB1graphicalgrapplegraspB2
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