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crayon

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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cray·on1 /ˈkreɪən, -ɒn $ -ɑːn, -ən/ ●○○ noun [countable]  crayons.jpg AVa stick of coloured wax or chalk that children use to draw pictures 彩色蜡笔;彩色粉笔
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crayonGrated crayon added to paint produces interesting effects and can give different shades of colour.It takes about 10 minutes, and visitors get free samples of crayons and markers.A pastel is a dry stick or crayon, it is not paint.Both side walls are covered with drawings-pencil, crayon, charcoal, child and adult.Can you imagine the board games, the crayon drawings, the tears?For Caspar there were crayons wrapped in a roll of drawing paper.Exhibit A, above, is clearly a shoddy effort created with crayons bearing no resemblance to Victoria.Rainbow lovers such as Todd Oldham and Isaac Mizrahi have always played with crayons, but never like this.
Related topics: Visual
crayon2 verb [intransitive, transitive]  AVDRAWto draw something with a crayon 用彩色蜡笔[粉笔]画(画)
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Origin crayon (1600-1700) French craie chalk
cray·on1 nouncrayon2 verbChineseSyllable
Corpus of wax or children stick a that chalk coloured


crayon
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crayon1 /ˈkreɪən, -ɒn $ -ɑːn, -ən/ noun [countable]
 Date: 1600-1700
 Language: French
 Origin: craie 'chalk'

a stick of coloured wax or chalk that children use to draw pictures

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crayon2 verb [intransitive and transitive]
to draw something with a crayon


crayonBrE /ˈkreɪən/ 🔊NAmE /ˈkreɪən/ 🔊 nouna coloured pencil or stick of soft coloured chalk or wax , used for drawing 彩色铅笔(或粉笔、蜡笔) crayon verb [intransitive, transitive] ~ (sth)