Stencil
['stensɪl;-s(ə)l] or ['stɛnsl]
Definition
(noun.) 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.
(verb.) mark or print with a stencil.
Typed by Amalia--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A thin plate of metal, leather, or other material, used in painting, marking, etc. The pattern is cut out of the plate, which is then laid flat on the surface to be marked, and the color brushed over it. Called also stencil plate.
(v. t.) To mark, paint, or color in figures with stencils; to form or print by means of a stencil.
Typist: Vivienne
Definition
n. a plate of metal &c. with a pattern cut out which is impressed upon a surface by drawing a brush with colour over it.—v.t. to print or paint by means of a stencil:—pr.p. sten′cilling; pa.t. and pa.p. sten′cilled.—ns. Sten′ciller one who does stencil-work; Sten′cilling a method of printing letters or designs the pattern cut out on a thin plate and brushed over so as to mark the surface below.
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Examples
- As a matter of fact, as many as three thousand copies have been made from a single mimeographic stencil of this character. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The writing is thus traced by means of a series of minute perforations in the sheet, from which, as a stencil, hundreds of copies can be made. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The current from a small battery suffices to energize the pen, and with the stencil thus made hundreds of copies of the document can be furnished. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This completed the negative or stencil from which the positives are printed by passing rays of light through it upon sensitive paper. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- We're like patterns stencilled on a wall. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Such stencils can be prepared on typewriters. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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