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crayon 音標拼音: [kr'e,ɑn] n. 蠟筆,蠟筆畫
vt. 以蠟筆作畫 蠟筆,蠟筆畫以蠟筆作畫 crayon n 1: writing implement consisting of a colored stick of composition wax used for writing and drawing [synonym: {crayon}, {wax crayon}] v 1: write, draw, or trace with a crayon 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. [1913 Webster] Let no day pass over you . . . without giving some strokes of the pencil or the crayon. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 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}. [1913 Webster] 2. A crayon drawing. [1913 Webster] 3. (Electricity) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light. [1913 Webster] {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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] He soon afterwards composed that discourse, conformably to the plan which he had crayoned out. --Malone. [1913 Webster] 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 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. 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) |
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