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Pencil vs Door - What's the difference?

pencil | door |

As nouns the difference between pencil and door

is that pencil is (obsolete) a paintbrush while door is door.

As a verb pencil

is to write something using a pencil.

pencil

English

(wikipedia pencil)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A paintbrush.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.0:
  • But living art may not least part expresse, / Nor life-resembling pencill it can paynt.
  • *, 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
  • 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
  • (medicine, archaic) A small medicated bougie.
  • 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 pencil

    Verb

  • to write something using a pencil
  • I penciled''' (''BrEn:'' '''pencilled ) it in my notebook.

    Derived terms

    * pencil in

    door

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A that ensures the door cannot be opened without the key.
  • * , chapter=5
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly,
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=20 citation , passage=‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’}}
  • Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.
  • A non-physical into the next world, a particular feeling, a company, etc.
  • (computing, dated) A . See (BBS door).
  • Meronyms

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    Derived terms

    * at death's door * darken someone's door * door brake * doorgame * door prize * doorstep * front door * get one's foot in the door * show somebody the door * shut the door on * sliding door * stage-door Johnny * up and over door *

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (cycling) To cause a .
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