pencil
part of speech
noun (pencil, pencils); verb (pencil — to write in pencil)
meaning for a pupil
1) A pencil is a thin stick of wood with grey graphite (called «lead») or colour inside, for writing and drawing. tree →
2) A coloured pencil is a pencil for drawing in colours. tree →
3) To pencil something in is to write it down for now, maybe to change later. tree →
sense in the lessons
a thing on the table; a counted thing («Anna has 18 pencils and shares them equally among 2 friends»); in class «sharpen your pencil», «pencil case», «write in pencil»; in everyday life drawing and colouring; in science pencil «lead» is not real lead but graphite
examples
- Lily had 9 pencils and lost 5. tree →
- Anna has 18 pencils and shares them equally among 2 friends. tree →
- A box has 10 pencils. tree →
- Sharpen your pencil before the test. tree →
- Write your answers in pencil, so you can rub them out. tree →
- I keep my pencils in a pencil case. tree →
- She drew a horse with coloured pencils. tree →
- Don't run with a sharp pencil. tree →
- The pencil would not go quite as it ought,--he had found that out; but the next day he tried again. tree →
note
Not a fruit; no operation clue. Spelling: pen-cil, ends in -il. Pencil «lead» is graphite, not the metal lead.
In the corpora
- Even one pencil dot holds more atoms than the number of people who have ever lived.
- Pencil "lead" is graphite, a kind of carbon, mixed with clay; it contains no lead metal.
- Schools teach the tripod grip: the pencil pinched between thumb and first finger, resting on the middle finger, near the tip.
- Opening packets with your teeth and chewing pencils or ice can crack teeth.
- You ask before borrowing a classmate's pencil or rubber and give it back when you finish.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «pencil» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.