Pencil vs Stew - What's the difference?
pencil | stew |
(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
(label) A cooking-dish used for boiling; a cauldron.
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*:And when he came to the chamber there as this lady was the dores of yron vnlocked and vnbolted / And so syr launcelot wente in to the chambre that was as hote as ony stewe / And there syr launcelot toke the fayrest lady by the hand / that euer he sawe / and she was naked as a nedel
(label) A brothel.
*1681 , (John Dryden), (Absalom and Achitophel)
*:And rak'd, for converts, even the court and stews .
*1835 , (Thomas Babington Macaulay), Sir James Mackintosh
*:Because he was chaste, the precinct of his temple is filled with licensed stews .
*1977 , Gãmini Salgãdo, The Elizabethan Underworld , Folio Society, 2006, p.37:
*:Although whores were permitted to sit at the door of the stew , they could not solicit in any way nor ‘chide or throw stones’ at passers-by.
(label) A prostitute.
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*1870 , Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood , Wordsworth Classics, 1998, p.367:
*:I noticed then that there was nothing to drink on the table but brandy, and nothing to eat but salted herrings, and a hot, sickly, highly peppered stew .
(label) A pool in which fish are kept in preparation for eating.
An artificial bed of oysters.
(label) A state of agitated excitement, worry, and/or confusion.
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(transitive, or, intransitive, or, ergative) To cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering.
To brew (tea) for too long, so that the flavour becomes too strong.
(figuratively) To suffer under uncomfortably hot conditions.
(figuratively) To be in a state of elevated anxiety or anger.
A steward or stewardess on an airplane.
* 1975 November 3, , volume 8, number 44, page 8 [http://google.com/books?id=OekCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA8&dq=stew]:
* 1991 , , 1992 edition, ISBN 0425184226, page 480 [http://google.com/books?id=kP84eUjxv-MC&pg=PA480&dq=stew]:
* 1992 January, Skip Hollandsworth, "Doing the Hustle", , ISSN 0148-7736, volume 20, issue 1, page 52 [http://google.com/books?id=dysEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA52&dq=stew]:
In obsolete terms the difference between pencil and stew
is that pencil is a paintbrush while stew is a prostitute.As a proper noun Stew is
a diminutive of the male given name Stewart.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 instew
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) estuve (modern French .Noun
(en-noun)Synonyms
* (food) casserole, (British) hotpotCoordinate terms
* casserole * cassoulet * goulash * ragoutDerived terms
* in a stew * stewpotVerb
(en verb)- I'm going to stew some meat for the casserole.
- The meat is stewing nicely.
Synonyms
* (suffer under hot conditions) bake, boil, sweat, swelter * (be in a state of elevated anxiety) brood, fret, sweat, worryEtymology 2
Abbreviation of steward or stewardess.Noun
(en noun)- And then, working as a stew for American Airlines, Mo met another older man.
- "We want to know what he's going to be saying on his airplane."
- "I don't have the legs to dress up as a stew , doc. Besides, I never learned to do the tea ceremony, either."
- Dallas was also becoming known as a "stew zoo" because so many flight attendants were relocating there to work for Southwest, Braniff, and American Airlines.