English Dictionary

pencil

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈpɛnsəl/

名詞

歴史的 廃用 稀用 略語 別表記 省略

(now chiefly historical) A paintbrush. / A writing utensil with a graphite (commonly referred to as lead) shaft, usually blended with clay, clad in wood, and sharpened to a taper.

日本語の意味

鉛筆： 書記用具。芯はグラファイトを主成分とし、粘土と混合され、木で覆われ、先をとがらせて使用する筆記具 / （歴史的な意味）絵筆： かつてはペイント用の筆としても用いられていた。

The restorer noted that the signature had been applied not with a pen but with a soft pencil, an archaic term for a small paintbrush.

修復者は、その署名がペンではなく柔らかな画筆で施されていることに気づいた。当時その語は小さな筆を意味していた。

意味（1）

(now chiefly historical) A paintbrush.

But living art may not least part expresse, / Nor life-resembling pencill it can paynt[…].

意味（2）

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

意味（3）

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

意味（4）

(geometry) 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.

When, by the pencil becoming oblique to the surface, the vergency produced on the pencil becomes changed, the primary and secondary focal points, V and H, separate […]

意味（5）

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

意味（6）

(gambling) Ellipsis of power of the pencil.

And most important of all, Cully now had 'The Pencil', that most coveted of Las Vegas powers.

pencils （ plural ）