pencil
/ˈpɛns(ə)l/
US pronunciation
American sound/ˈpɛns(ə)l/
pencil
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pen - cil -> pencil
Myanmar meaning
(n) ခဲတံ။ ခဲတံဖြင့်အရေးအသား။ ခဲတံရာ။ ခဲတံဖြင့်ရေးသည်။ (v) ခဲတံဖြင့်ရေး
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(က) [C] ခဲတံ။ a pencil drawing.
(ခ) [U] ခဲတံဖြင့်အရေးအသား။ ခဲတံရာ။ Should I sign my name in pencil or ink? ❍ Pencil rubs out easily. See also BLUE PENCIL
v (-ll- ; US -l- ) ခဲတံဖြင့်ရေးသည်။ She pencilled the rough outline of a house.
❏ pencil-case (US also pencil pouch ) n ခဲတံဘူး။ ခဲတံအိတ်ငယ်။
❏ pencil sth in [PHRV ] ခဲတံဖြင့်တို့ထားသည်။ Let's pencil in 3 May for the meeting.
❏ pencil-sharpener n ခဲတံချွန်စက်။ ချွန်စက်။
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address, author, autograph, bang out, bar, beam; indication, blaze, blink, caricature, chalk, chart, color, commit, communicate, comp, compose, copy, correspond, crayon, create, dash off, delineate, depict, describe, design, draft, draw, draw up, drop a line, drop a note, emanation, engrave, engross, etch, express, flash, flicker, form, formulate, frame, ghost, gleam, glimmer, glint, glitter, graph, hint, incandescence, indite, ink, inscribe, irradiation, jot down, knock off, knock out, letter, light, limn, map out, mark, model, moonbeam, note, note down, outline, paint, patch, pen, portray, prepare, print, profile, push a pencil, put in writing, radiance, radiation, record, reproduce, rewrite, scintilla, scrawl, scribble, scribe, scriven, set down, set forth, shaft, shine, sign, sketch, spark, sparkle, streak, stream, sunbeam, take down, tell, trace, transcribe, turn out, typewrite, wave, write, write down, write up
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