CRAYON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crayon mean? 

• CRAYON (noun)
  The noun CRAYON has 1 sense:

1. writing implement consisting of a colored stick of composition wax used for writing and drawing

  Familiarity information: CRAYON used as a noun is very rare.

• CRAYON (verb)
  The verb CRAYON has 1 sense:

1. write, draw, or trace with a crayon

  Familiarity information: CRAYON used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRAYON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Writing implement consisting of a colored stick of composition wax used for writing and drawing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

crayon; wax crayon

Hypernyms ("crayon" is a kind of...):

writing implement (an implement that is used to write)

Derivation:

crayon (write, draw, or trace with a crayon)

• CRAYON (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they crayon    ... he / she / it crayons   
Past simple: crayoned   
Past participle: crayoned   
-ing form: crayoning   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Write, draw, or trace with a crayon

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "crayon" is one way to...):

draw (represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

Did he crayon his major works over a short period of time?

Derivation:

crayon (writing implement consisting of a colored stick of composition wax used for writing and drawing)

 Context examples 

I was to finish the crayon of Beth for you, and you were to go properly with me, and return our neighbors' visits.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

An hour or two sufficed to sketch my own portrait in crayons; and in less than a fortnight I had completed an ivory miniature of an imaginary Blanche Ingram.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Miniatures, half-lengths, whole-lengths, pencil, crayon, and water-colours had been all tried in turn.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Some practitioners use colored pencils or crayons to allow patients to color code areas of more or less severe pain.

(Pain Map, NCI Thesaurus)

In the former were many good paintings; but Elizabeth knew nothing of the art; and from such as had been already visible below, she had willingly turned to look at some drawings of Miss Darcy's, in crayons, whose subjects were usually more interesting, and also more intelligible.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I had only time, in dressing, to glance at the solid furniture, the framed pieces of work (done, I supposed, by Steerforth's mother when she was a girl), and some pictures in crayons of ladies with powdered hair and bodices, coming and going on the walls, as the newly-kindled fire crackled and sputtered, when I was called to dinner.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Dear mama, only think, my cousin cannot put the map of Europe together—or my cousin cannot tell the principal rivers in Russia—or, she never heard of Asia Minor—or she does not know the difference between water-colours and crayons!

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Softened into crayon sketches, they did better, for the likenesses were good, and Amy's hair, Jo's nose, Meg's mouth, and Laurie's eyes were pronounced 'wonderfully fine'.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

They seem not able to do any thing without him.—'Upon my word, Mr. E.,' I often say, 'rather you than I. I do not know what would become of my crayons and my instrument, if I had half so many applicants.'—Bad enough as it is, for I absolutely neglect them both to an unpardonable degree.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)