Write vs Pencil - What's the difference?
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(lb) To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.
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(lb) To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).
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*:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language; his clerks, however, understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade , or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.
(lb) To send written information to.
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(lb) To show (information, etc) in written form.
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(lb) To be an author.
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To record (data) mechanically or electronically.
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To fill in, to complete using words.
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To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave.
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To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; often used reflexively.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:He who writes himself by his own inscription is like an ill painter, who, by writing on a shapeless picture which he hath drawn, is fain to tell passengers what shape it is, which else no man could imagine.
(computing) The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.
* 2006 , MySQL administrator's guide and language reference (page 393)
(obsolete) A paintbrush.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.0:
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*: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
As verbs the difference between write and pencil
is that write is (lb) to form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate while pencil is to write something using a pencil.As nouns the difference between write and pencil
is that write is (computing) the operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk while pencil is (obsolete) a paintbrush.write
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Synonyms
* inscribe, scrawl (indistinctly), scribble (quickly or imprecisely) * (be the author of) author, pen * to post * display, indicate, mark, show * save, store * See alsoAntonyms
* load, read, retrieveDerived terms
* bewrite * co-write * hand-written * nothing to write home about * overwrite * rewrite * that's all she wrote * underwrite * who writes this stuff? * write down, write-down * write head * write in, write-in * write off, write-off * write once * * write one's own ticket * write-only * write out * writer * write up, write-up * writingNoun
(en noun)- How many writes per second can this hard disk handle?
- In other words, the system can do 1200 reads per second with no writes , the average write is twice as slow as the average read, and the relationship is linear.
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(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.
