Crayon

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Crayon \Cray"on\ (kr?"?n), n. [F., a crayon, a lead pencil
     (crayon Cont['e] Cont['e]'s pencil, i. e., one made a black
     compound invented by Cont['e]), fr. craie chalk, L. creta;
     said to be, properly, Cretan earth, fr. Creta the island
     Crete. Cf. {Cretaceous}.]
     1. An implement for drawing, made of clay and plumbago, or of


        some preparation of chalk, usually sold in small prisms or
        cylinders.
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              Let no day pass over you . . . without giving some
              strokes of the pencil or the crayon.  --Dryden.
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     Note: The black crayon gives a deeper black than the lead
           pencil. This and the colored crayons are often called
           chalks. The red crayon is also called sanguine. See
           {Chalk}, and {Sanguine}.
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     2. A crayon drawing.
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     3. (Electricity) A pencil of carbon used in producing
        electric light.
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     {Crayon board}, cardboard with a surface prepared for crayon
        drawing.
  
     {Crayon drawing}, the act or art of drawing with crayons; a
        drawing made with crayons.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Crayon \Cray"on\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crayoned} (-?nd); p. pr.
     & vb. n. {Crayoning}.] [Cf. F. crayonner.]
     To sketch, as with a crayon; to sketch or plan.
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           He soon afterwards composed that discourse, conformably
           to the plan which he had crayoned out.   --Malone.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  crayon
       n : writing implement consisting of a colored stick of
           composition wax used for writing and drawing [syn: {wax
           crayon}]
       v : write, draw, or trace with a crayon

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  59 Moby Thesaurus words for "crayon":
     air brush, art paper, black and white, brouillon, brush,
     camera lucida, camera obscura, canvas, cartoon, chalk, charcoal,
     charcoal drawing, chiaroscuro, delineation, design, diagram,
     doodle, draft, drawing, drawing paper, drawing pencil, drier,
     easel, ebauche, esquisse, fixative, graph, ground, lay figure,
     line drawing, maulstick, medium, paint, paintbrush, palette,
     palette knife, pastel, pen-and-ink, pencil, pencil drawing,
     pigments, rough copy, rough draft, rough outline, scratchboard,
     siccative, silhouette, silver-print drawing, sinopia, sketch,
     sketchbook, sketchpad, spatula, spray gun, study, stump, tracing,
     varnish, vignette
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  crayon n. 1. Someone who works on Cray supercomputers. More
     specifically, it implies a programmer, probably of the CDC ilk, probably
     male, and almost certainly wearing a tie (irrespective of gender).
     Systems types who have a Unix background tend not to be described as
     crayons. 2. Formerly, anyone who worked for Cray Research; since the
     buyout by SGI, anyone they inherited from Cray. Nowadays, often applied
     to any SGI employee who either works at one of the former Cray Research
     facilities (i.e. Eagan Minnesota and Chippewa Falls Wisconsin) or works
     primarily in vector computing aspects of the business. Sometimes
     considered mildly offensive by those to whom it is applied, particularly
     those whose work has nothing to do with vector computing. 3. A
     {computron} (sense 2) that participates only in {number-crunching}. 4. A
     unit of computational power equal to that of a single Cray-1. There is a
     standard joke about this usage that derives from an old Crayola crayon
     promotional gimmick: When you buy 64 crayons you get a free sharpener.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  crayon
       
          1. Someone who works on {Cray} {supercomputer}s.  More
          specifically, it implies a programmer, probably of the {CDC}
          ilk, probably male, and almost certainly wearing a tie
          (irrespective of gender).  Systems types who have a {Unix}
          background tend not to be described as crayons.
       
          2. A {computron} that participates only in {number crunching}.
       
          3. A unit of computational power equal to that of a single
          {Cray-1}.  There is a standard joke about this usage that
          derives from an old Crayola crayon promotional gimmick: When
          you buy 64 crayons you get a free sharpener.
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
          (1994-10-13)