different between pencil vs aunt

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.

English

Etymology

From Middle English aunte, from Anglo-Norman aunte, from Old French ante, from Latin amita (“father's sister”). Displaced native Middle English modrie (“aunt”) (from Old English m?dri?e (“maternal aunt”); compare Old English faþu, faþe (“paternal aunt”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian, New England, AAVE, some other US areas) enPR: änt, IPA^(key): /?(?)nt/

  Rhymes: -??nt

  Homophone: aren't (in some non-rhotic accents)

• (Northern England, Canada, General American) enPR: ?nt, IPA^(key): /ænt/ (in the US, this is the most common pronunciation in all regions except New England and Virginia)

  Rhymes: -ænt

  Homophone: ant

• (Southern Hiberno-English) IPA^(key): /æ?nt/ (not homophonous with "ant")
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ant/
• (Canada, Maritimes) IPA^(key): /?nt/

  Rhymes: -?nt

• (New England) enPR: ônt, IPA^(key): /?nt/

  Rhymes: -??nt

• (Southern American English, occasionally) IPA^(key): /e?nt/

  Homophone: ain't

Noun

aunt (plural aunts)

1. The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent.
   • 1923, P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves:

     As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling to Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle... the clan has a tendency to ignore me.

2. (endearing) The female cousin of one’s parent.
3. (endearing) A woman of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin.
4. (obsolete) Any elderly woman.
5. (obsolete) A procuress or bawd.

Synonyms

• auntie, aunty (diminutive)
• auntyji (India, as a respectful term of address)
• naunt (nonstandard, proscribed, dated)

Antonyms

• (with regard to gender) uncle
• (with regard to ancestry) niece, nephew

Hypernyms

• (sibling of someone's parent) auncle, pibling (nonstandard)

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Irish: aint

Translations

Several languages distinguish between blood aunts (one’s parent’s sister) and in-law aunts (one’s parent’s sister-in-law), some distinguish between paternal and maternal aunts, and some distinguish between one’s parent’s older siblings and younger siblings.

See also

• materteral

References

Further reading

• aunt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• -naut, Tuna, naut., tuan, tuna