pencil whip
To approve a document without actually knowing or reviewing what it is that is being approved.
pencil
/ˈpɛnsəl/
noun 5verb 2
Collocations
10(noun.)
ADJ
blunt, sharp | hard, soft
coloured
The artist used coloured pencils to sketch the landscape during her art class.
graphite, lead
VERB + PENCIL
colour sth in with, draw (sth) with, use, write (sth) with | sharpen
PENCIL + NOUN
lead, sharpener | drawing, sketch | line, mark
PREP
in ~
She sketched the design in pencil before painting it with watercolors.
Definitions
noun
1
A paintbrush.
But living art may not least part expresse, / Nor life-resembling pencill it can paynt[…].
why is it not lawfull for every man to pourtray himself with his pen, as it was for him to doe it with a pensell?
2
A writing utensil with a graphite (commonly referred to as lead) shaft, usually blended with clay, clad in wood, and sharpened to a taper.
3
An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point.
4
A family of geometric objects with a common property, such as the set of lines that pass through a given point in a projective plane.
When, by the pencil becoming oblique to the surface, the vergency produced on the pencil becomes changed, the primary and secondary focal points, V and H, separate […]
A drillable robot is capable of placing its end link in any orientation in the pencil of planes containing its first link.
5
A small medicated bougie.
verb
1
To write (something) using a pencil.
I penciled (BrE: pencilled) a brief reminder in my notebook.
She had hardly got back when she encountered a piece by Robert Trewe in the new number of her favourite magazine, which must have been written almost immediately before her visit to Solentsea, for it contained the very couplet she had seen pencilled on the wallpaper by the bed, and Mrs. Hooper had declared to be recent.
2
To mark with, or as if with, a pencil.
It pencilled each flower with rich and variegated hues, and threw over its exuberant foliage a vesture of emerald green.
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Idioms & Phrases
pencil in
To fill in or write in using pencil.
power of the pencil
The authority to charge a punter's gambling or other bills to the casino.
In the casino business, they call it the power of the pencil. As casino host I had the ability to sign away a guest's restaurant tabs, wipe out all room or suite charges, give away
Example Bank
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But living art may not least part expresse, / Nor life-resembling pencill it can paynt[…].
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why is it not lawfull for every man to pourtray himself with his pen, as it was for him to doe it with a pensell?
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He requested three things of Sir Joshua Reynolds:—To forgive him thirty pounds which he had borrowed of him; to read the Bible; and never to use his pencil on a Sunday.
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I penciled (BrE: pencilled) a brief reminder in my notebook.
Wiktionary05
She had hardly got back when she encountered a piece by Robert Trewe in the new number of her favourite magazine, which must have been written almost immediately before her visit to Solentsea, for it
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It pencilled each flower with rich and variegated hues, and threw over its exuberant foliage a vesture of emerald green.
WiktionaryUsage Notes
i Register
In some senses, pencil is marked as obsolete, historical, rare. Watch for register when choosing this word.
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