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pencilmark

pencilmark noun: a mark or line made using a pencil.

Noun

pencilmark (plural pencilmarks)

  1. A mark or line made using a pencil.
    • Like pencilmarks on a doorjamb that a parent uses to record a child’s height, you can compare old feedback with new, every six to eighteen months.2014, Alan E Nelson, How to Grow Your Soul: Developing Spiritual Intelligence, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, page 34
    • To make assurance doubly sure, you put a pencilmark against the name and “day” of your own particular great man.1984, Wit, Augusta de, Java, facts and fancies, Oxford University Press, page 85

Examples of pencilmark in a sentence

  • Then pencilmark the outer edges for a guide.1986, Dezettel, Louis M, Masons and builders library, Macmillan Pub., page 278
  • Geissler was seated at his glass-topped desk making pencilmarks on a dark gray punched tape.1973, Shaw, Bob, Tomorrow Lies in Ambush, Ace Books, page 59:
  • You might do this with pencilmarks and find that 8 and 9 can go only in the two cells marked ‘c.2006, Gould, Wayne, New York Post Bathroom Sudoku: The Official Utterly Addictive Number-Placing Puzzle, Collins, page 19:

Forms of pencilmark

pluralpencilmarks

Questions about pencilmark

What does pencilmark mean?
Pencilmark means a mark or line made using a pencil.
How do you use pencilmark in a sentence?
Then pencilmark the outer edges for a guide.
What part of speech is pencilmark?
Pencilmark is a noun.
What is the plural of pencilmark?
The plural of pencilmark is pencilmarks.

Words near pencilmark in the dictionary

  1. pencills
  2. pencilly
  3. pencilmaker
  4. pencilmakers
  5. pencilmaking
  6. pencilmark
  7. pencilmarks
  8. pencilneck
  9. pencilnecks
  10. pencils
  11. pencils in

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