Crayon

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A stick of colored wax, charcoal, or chalk, used for drawing.
  • n. A drawing made with one of these sticks.
  • v. To draw, color, or decorate with a stick of colored wax, charcoal, or chalk.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.
  • v. To draw with a crayon.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An implement for drawing, made of clay and plumbago, or of some preparation of chalk, usually sold in small prisms or cylinders.
  • n. A crayon drawing.
  • n. A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.
  • v. To sketch, as with a crayon; to sketch or plan.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A pencil-shaped piece of colored clay, chalk, or charcoal, used for drawing upon paper.
  • n. A pencil made of a composition of soap, resin, wax, and lampblack, used for drawing upon lithographic stones.
  • n. One of the carbon-points in an electric lamp.
  • Drawn with crayons: as, a crayon sketch.
  • To sketch or draw with a crayon.
  • Hence To sketch in general; plan; commit to paper one's first thoughts.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. writing implement consisting of a colored stick of composition wax used for writing and drawing
  • v. write, draw, or trace with a crayon
  • Verb Form
    crayoned    crayoning    crayons   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Form
    crayoned    crayoning   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    pencil    pastel    chalk   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    pastel    chalk    watercolors    watercolor    lithograph    pencil    pen-and-ink    eraser    water-colour    easel