different between ballpen vs pencil

English

Noun

ballpen (plural ballpens)

1. Alternative form of ball pen

English

Alternative forms

• pensill (obsolete)

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman and Old French pincil (see the variant pincel, which gave rise to Modern French pinceau (“paintbrush”)), from Latin p?nicillum, diminutive of p?niculus (“brush”), itself a diminutive of p?nis (“tail; penis”). Not related to pen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?ns?l/
• (also) (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p?ns?l/
• Rhymes: -?ns?l
• Hyphenation: pen?cil

Noun

pencil (plural pencils)

1. (now chiefly historical) A paintbrush. [from 14th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.0:

     But living art may not least part expresse, / Nor life-resembling pencill it can paynt […].

   • 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford 2008, p. 1390:

     He requested three things of Sir Joshua Reynolds:—To forgive him thirty pounds which he had borrowed of him; to read the Bible; and never to use his pencil on a Sunday.

2. A writing utensil with a graphite (commonly referred to as lead) shaft, usually blended with clay, clad in wood, and sharpened to a taper. [from 16th c.]
3. (optics) An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point. [from 17th c.]
4. (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. [from 19th c.]
   • 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 […]

5. (medicine, obsolete, rare) A small medicated bougie. [19th c.]
6. (gambling) Short for power of the pencil.
   • 1978, Mario Puzo, Fools Die

     And most important of all, Cully now had 'The Pencil', that most coveted of Las Vegas powers.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Bole: pensur
• ? Central Dusun: pinsil
• ? Central Melanau: pisil
• ? Dhivehi: ????????? (fan?suru)
• ? Hausa: fensir
• ? Hindi: ?????? (pensil), ??????? (pensil)
• ? Scottish Gaelic: peansail
• ? Tagalog: pensil

Translations

Verb

pencil (third-person singular simple present pencils, present participle (UK) pencilling or (US) penciling, simple past and past participle (UK) pencilled or (US) penciled)

1. (transitive) To write (something) using a pencil.

   I penciled (BrE: pencilled) a brief reminder in my notebook.
2. (transitive) To mark with, or as if with, a pencil.
   • 1852, The Ark, and Odd Fellows' Western Magazine

     It pencilled each flower with rich and variegated hues, and threw over its exuberant foliage a vesture of emerald green.

Derived terms

• pencil in
• pencil out

Further reading

• pencil on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Malay

Adjective

p?ncil (Jawi spelling ??????, plural pencil-pencil)

1. to be isolated, separated

Derived terms

Further reading

• “pencil” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.