0 a long, thin object, usually made of wood, for writing or drawing, with a sharp black or coloured point at one end: --
1 used to describe something that has been drawn with a pencil: --
2 to write something with a pencil --
3 a thin, usually wooden, tube-shaped device for writing or drawing which has colored material in the center and a point at one end: --
[ U ] Make your corrections in pencil (= using a pencil).
When he gets home, he goes into his little office and takes out a lot of paper, a few pencils and a big eraser.
In the first scenario, the discovery turns out to have a profound impact on ordinary speakers' daily transactions with pencils.
The scientific discovery of the animate nature of pencils might have semantic implications as well.
We ow restrict our attention to simple pencils, where symmetric or not.
They continue to relate to pencils as items designed to assist them in achieving their goals.
As the second scenario shows, even the startling discovery that pencils are alive need not have metasemantic implications.
The child was allowed to play freely with watercolor pencils and crayons.
Consider two possibilities in the light of the discovery that pencils are living organisms.
