Pencil vs Aunt - What's the difference?
pencil | aunt |
(obsolete) A paintbrush.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.0:
*, II.17:
*:why is it not lawfull for every man to pourtray himself with his pen, as it was for him to doe it with a pensell ?
Writing utensil that uses graphite (commonly referred to as lead). Regular pencils usually have a graphite shaft surrounded by wood. Also available in a mechanical version where the graphite length can be adjusted and sharpening is not needed.
(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.
(optics) An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point.
* 1863 , The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal
(medicine, archaic) A small medicated bougie.
to write something using a pencil
A sister or sister-in-law of someone’s parent.
* 2007 , Nancy Eshelman, A Piece of My Mind: Columns from the Patriot-News , page 35:
(also'' great-aunt ''or grandaunt) A person's grandparent's sister or sister-in-law.
(usually auntie) A grandmother.
An affectionate term for a woman of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin.
1000 English basic words
As nouns the difference between pencil and aunt
is that pencil is (obsolete) a paintbrush while aunt is a sister or sister-in-law of someone’s parent.As a verb pencil
is to write something using a pencil.pencil
English
(wikipedia pencil)Noun
(en noun)- But living art may not least part expresse, / Nor life-resembling pencill it can paynt.
- 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
Derived terms
* carpenter's pencil * china pencil * color pencil, colored pencil, coloring pencil * colour pencil, coloured pencil, colouring pencil * golf pencil * grease pencil * lead pencil * mechanical pencil * * pencil crayon * pencil lead * pencil pusher * pencil sharpener * pencil skirt * pencil stub * propelling pencil * wax pencilVerb
- I penciled''' (''BrEn:'' '''pencilled ) it in my notebook.
Derived terms
* pencil inaunt
English
Noun
(en noun)- I mentioned another aunt , my late mother's sister, who's about the same age.