STENCIL (stencilled, stencilling)

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Irregular inflected forms: stencilled    , stencilling   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does stencil mean? 

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

1. a sheet of material (metal, plastic, cardboard, waxed paper, silk, etc.) that has been perforated with a pattern (printing or a design); ink or paint can pass through the perforations to create the printed pattern on the surface below

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

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

1. mark or print with a stencil

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• STENCIL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sheet of material (metal, plastic, cardboard, waxed paper, silk, etc.) that has been perforated with a pattern (printing or a design); ink or paint can pass through the perforations to create the printed pattern on the surface below

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

flat solid; sheet (a flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width)

Derivation:

stencil (mark or print with a stencil)

• STENCIL (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they stencil    ... he / she / it stencils   
Past simple: stenciled    / stencilled   
Past participle: stenciled    / stencilled   
-ing form: stenciling    / stencilling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mark or print with a stencil

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

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

print (make into a print)

Domain category:

art; artistic creation; artistic production (the creation of beautiful or significant things)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

stencil (a sheet of material (metal, plastic, cardboard, waxed paper, silk, etc.) that has been perforated with a pattern (printing or a design); ink or paint can pass through the perforations to create the printed pattern on the surface below)

 Context examples 

Nothing could destroy its exquisite oval, its well-nigh classic lines, its delicately stencilled brows, its large brown eyes, clear-seeing and calm, gloriously calm.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

My room was at the top of the house, at the back: a close chamber; stencilled all over with an ornament which my young imagination represented as a blue muffin; and very scantily furnished.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)