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Meanings of drafting pencil in English

Russian
механический карандаш
Portuguese
lapiseira
Spanish
lapiz mecánico
Catalan
llapis automàtic
Wikidata

Pencil with a replaceable and mechanically extendable solid pigment core.

      механический карандаш
      Synonyms
      Examples for "mechanical pencil"
      Examples for "mechanical pencil"
      1
      Putting down her mechanical pencil, Spencer gazed out the barn's large front window.
      Pretty Little Liars
      2
      He scribbled the facts down with a mechanical pencil in a black notebook.
      Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world: a novel
      3
      In his two hands he held a mechanical pencil and a small remote control.
      Library of Souls
      4
      His mouth is a small line, the width of a piece of mechanical pencil lead.
      Saving max
      5
      He found a mechanical pencil in his sweater pocket, opened the book to the flyleaf, and asked, 'What's your name?'
      Salem’s Lot
      1
      His hands played with a lead pencil that lay on the desk.
      Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life
      2
      Similar to lead pencil, and of even greater delicacy, is silver-point drawing.
      The Practice and Science of Drawing
      3
      When he returned, the message was written out in lead pencil:-
      The Kingdom of the Blind
      4
      Instead of the traditional lead pencil, his hand covers a mouse.
      The Irish Times
      5
      He produced an old envelope and a lead pencil and scribbled.
      The Boy Allies with Uncle Sam's Cruisers
      1
      The book includes a set of colored pencils, a "Star Wars"-branded automatic pencil and marker, and a good eraser.
      Wired
      2
      Automatic pencil with removable eraser to the right.
      Hula Done It?
      3
      I don't even like to use automatic pencils.
      Storm front
      4
      "Try," Mrs. Levy said, making some sort of note on her date book with a rhinestoned automatic pencil.
      A Confederacy of Dunces
      1
      Interestingly the next picture shows a gold propelling pencil in the shape of a musket also dating from the 1880's.
      The South African
      2
      I was one of those children who received an embossed propelling pencil and teaspoon at primary school to commemorate the coronation in 1953.
      The Guardian
      3
      When the partner drew a diagram the Irishman moved it closer with the rubber of a propelling pencil so that he left no fingerprints.
      Carte Blanche
      Usage of drafting pencil in English
      1
      It felt more like a drafting pencil was shoved halfway through to my esophagus.
      Internecine
      2
      She put down her drafting pencil and did something she'd sworn she'd never do at any job, ever.
      Audrey's door
      3
      I thought about my father, the architect, who saw fields and parking lots as blank canvases just waiting for his drafting pencil.
      BBC