Pencil vs Pencel - What's the difference?
pencil | pencel |
(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
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* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 86:
(obsolete) A lady's favour or token as worn by a knight.
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In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between pencil and pencel
is that pencil is (obsolete) a paintbrush while pencel is (obsolete) a lady's favour or token as worn by a knight.As nouns the difference between pencil and pencel
is that pencil is (obsolete) a paintbrush while pencel is .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 inpencel
English
Alternative forms
* pinsel (chiefly Scottish) * pensill (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)citation
- Inside Worcester Cathedral, the coffin was transferred to its hearse, a vast, storeyed, wooden structure, painted black and adorned with heraldic escutcheons, badged pennants or ‘pencels ’, silk standards of St George, banners of the royal arms of England and Spain, and of Arthur's various titles, from Wales to Ponthieu in Normandy.