Meaning

6 senses
  1. A writing utensil with a graphite (commonly referred to as lead) shaft, usually blended with clay, clad in wood, and sharpened to a taper.

    Bleistift, Buntstift, Griffel

    каранда́шkarandáš

    оліве́цьolivécʹ

  2. An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point.

    a figure formed by a set of straight lines or light rays meeting at a point

  3. 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.

  4. (historical)A paintbrush.

  5. (obsolete, rare)A small medicated bougie.

  6. (obsolete)A small, thin tuft of hairs or feathers.

Examples

671 sentences
  1. I bought a dozen pencils today.

    Я купив сьогодні дюжину олівців.

    ruЯ сегодня купил дюжину карандашей.

    deIch habe heute ein Dutzend Bleistifte gekauft.

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  2. How many pencils do you have?

    Скільки в вас олівців?

    ruСколько у тебя карандашей?

    deWie viele Bleistifte hast du?

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  3. Do you have a red pencil?

    Ти маєш червоний олівець?

    ruУ тебя есть красный карандаш?

    deHast du einen roten Buntstift?

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  4. Don't sign the contract in pencil.

    Не підписуй договір олівцем.

    ruНе подписывай контракт карандашом.

    deDen Vertrag nicht mit Bleistift unterschreiben!

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  5. Sorry, I don't have a pencil.

    Мені шкода, але у мене немає олівця.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
graphite writing-instrument:
Русский
By meaning 1
graphite writing-instrument:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
graphite writing-instrument:
slate writing-instrument:

Origin

From Anglo-Norman and Old French pincil (see the variant pincel, which gave rise to Modern

From Anglo-Norman and Old French pincil (see the variant pincel, which gave rise to Modern French pinceau (“paintbrush”)), from Latin pēnicillum, diminutive of pēniculus (“brush”), itself a diminutive of pēnis (“tail; penis”). Doublet of penis. Not related to pen.

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Forms

plural: pencils
Singularpencil
Pluralpencils

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms

Word family

77 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • have a pencil
  • sharpen my pencil
  • need a pencil
  • pencil and started
  • with a pencil
  • out a pencil
  • for a pencil
  • pencils in the
  • a pencil and
  • red pencil
  • is this pencil
  • these pencils are

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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