stencil

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Related topics: Painting and drawing

sten·cil1 /ˈstensəl/ noun [countable]  1. AVPa piece of plastic, metal, or paper in which designs or letters have been cut out, that you put over a surface and paint over, so that the design is left on the surface 〔镂有图案或文字的〕模版，蜡纸2. a design made on something using a stencil 〔用模版、蜡纸印制的〕图案，文字

Examples from the Corpus

stencil• Two pieces of leather, glued together on three sides, and monogrammed with the aid of a stencil.• Electronic stencils produce photographic reproduction. 4.• For starters, our model is right-handed -- and so was the intricately cut plastic stencil.• Good quality stencils can produce several hundred copies per run, and, if stored carefully, can be reused. 2.• Correction of errors or alterations on the stencil are easily made by using special correcting fluid. 3.• This time she squeezed the paste on to the stencil in thin ribbons and smoothed it evenly over her left palm.• The stencils are sold to companies which use them to produce semiconductor chips.

Related topics: Painting and drawing

stencil2 verb (stencilled, stencilling British English, stenciled, stenciling American English) [transitive]  AVPto make a design, letters etc using a stencil 用模版[蜡纸]印制→ See Verb table

Examples from the Corpus

stencil• Her footprint was stencilled across the thick hand-made paper.• The lead engine had a canvas dodger along its canopy, that was stencilled in crude letters: Look Out, Fritz!• It was stencilled in white paint on the freight car fourth from the front.• The name was stencilled inside a brass frame on the fourth door along.• If they are rather worse for wear you could always just paint and perhaps stencil them.Origin stencil2 (1700-1800) Old French estanceler “to decorate with shiny colors”, from estancele “spark”, from Latin scintilla; → SCINTILLA

sten·cil1 nounstencil2 verbChineseSyllable  

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stencil

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sten‧cil¹ /ˈstensəl/ noun [countable]
1. a piece of plastic, metal, or paper in which designs or letters have been cut out, that you put over a surface and paint over, so that the design is left on the surface
2. a design made on something using a stencil

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stencil² verb (past tense and past participle stencilled, present participle stencilling British English, stenciled, stenciling American English) [transitive]to make a design, letters etc using a stencil