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Pencil vs Pencilwork - What's the difference?

pencil | pencilwork |

As nouns the difference between pencil and pencilwork

is that pencil is (obsolete) a paintbrush while pencilwork is a task involving lots of writing.

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

    External links

    * (wikipedia "pencil") 1000 English basic words

    pencilwork

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • A task involving lots of writing.
  • *{{quote-journal, year=1948, date=November, title=Globe Aids Star Study, journal=Popular Science, page=243 citation
    • , passage=Amateur astronomers needn't do a lot of mathematical pencilwork with this clear, all-plastic celestial globe.}}
  • *{{quote-journal, year=1975, date=November, author=Griffin Smith, jr., title=The Strange Case of the Missing Parks, journal=Texas Monthly, page=136 citation
    • , passage=To assess only one-third of the cost of a new administrative headquarters against a fund designed for administration and operations, while assessing two-thirds against another fund designed to buy and open new parks, takes some fancy pencilwork .}}
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=December 3, author=Colin Nickerson, title=The science of how buildings fall down, work=The Boston Globe citation
    • , passage=Engineers rely mostly on computer simulations and pencilwork for such forecasts.}}
  • Drawings done with a pencil.
  • *{{quote-journal, year=1839, date=August/November, title=Essays on Natural History, chiefly Ornithology [book review], journal=The Dublin Review, vol VII, page=184 citation
    • , passage=Mr. Prideaux Selby delights and excels in the glowing and splendid pencilwork of nature.}}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1998, author=G. Malcolm Lewis, title=Maps, Mapmaking, and Map Use by Native North Americans [in:] The History of Cartography, Volume 2, Book 3: Cartography in the Traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and Pacific Societies, isbn=978-0226907284, publisher=University of Chicago Press, page=154 citation
    • , passage=Chief Windigo's map of Lake Nipigon, Ontario.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=November 3, author=Laura Miller, title=Glimpsing a Life Through a Few Objects, work=The Cornell Daily Sun citation
    • , passage=