Pencil vs Biro - What's the difference?
pencil | biro |
(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 BIRO brand ballpoint pen.
* 1993 , , 2008,
(by extension, UK, AU, NZ) Any ballpoint pen.
* 2007 , , The Anatomy of Wings ,
(by extension) Ink from a ballpoint pen.
* 2011 , Shannon Lush, Jennifer Fleming, Completely Spotless ,
As nouns the difference between pencil and biro
is that pencil is (obsolete) a paintbrush while biro is bureau.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 inbiro
English
(wikipedia biro)Noun
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- Frank's Biro taps delicately at the topmost of the little yellow notes.
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- Massimo's finger was poised above red on his multi-coloured biro like a kangaroo frozen in headlights.
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- ‘My very creative 2-year-old son used my good friend?s white polyester Roman blinds as a canvas,’ says Jacqui. They?re now covered in blue biro'. And although my friend isn?t too bothered by the ' biro , I am! Can you help??