pencil
/ˈpɛnsəl/
verb
- To write, draw, or mark with a pencil.
- The student penciled the answers lightly so she could erase them later.
- He penciled a rough sketch of the building.
- She penciled a quick note on the margin of the page.
- To schedule or note something tentatively, often with the understanding it may change.
- They penciled the date for the party but haven't confirmed it yet.
- Let's pencil in a meeting for next Tuesday.
- I'll pencil you in for a 3 o'clock appointment.
noun
- A thin, cylindrical writing or drawing tool with a graphite or colored core inside a wooden or plastic casing.
- I always keep a pencil and notebook in my backpack.
- The artist used a soft pencil to sketch the portrait.
- She sharpened her pencil before the math test.
- A cosmetic product shaped like a pencil, used for applying makeup to the eyebrows, lips, or eyes.
- The makeup artist recommended a brown eyeliner pencil for a natural look.
- He used an eyebrow pencil to fill in his brows.
- She outlined her lips with a lip pencil before applying lipstick.
- A narrow beam of light or radiation.
- A pencil of light shone through the crack in the curtain.
- The laser emitted a thin pencil of red light.
- Scientists studied the pencil of radiation from the distant star.