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cray·on 
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| 1. | a pointed stick or pencil of colored clay, chalk, wax, etc., used for drawing or coloring. |
| 2. | a drawing in crayons. |
| 3. | to draw or color with a crayon or crayons. |
| 4. | to make a drawing with crayons. |
[Origin: 1635–45; < F, equiv. to craie chalk (< L créta clay, chalk) + -on n. suffix]
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tr.v. cray·oned, cray·on·ing, cray·ons To draw, color, or decorate with a stick of colored wax, charcoal, or chalk. [French, diminutive of craie, chalk, from Latin crēta.] cray'on·ist (-ə-nĭst), cray'on·er (-ə-nər) n. |
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crayon
1644, from Fr. crayon "pencil," orig. "chalk pencil," from craie "chalk," from L. creta "chalk."
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| 1. | writing implement consisting of a colored stick of composition wax used for writing and drawing |
verb | |
| 1. | write, draw, or trace with a crayon |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
crayon [ˈkreiən] noun
a coloured pencil or stick of chalk etc for drawing with
crayon [ˈkreiən] verb
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crayon
1. Someone who works on Cray supercomputers. More specifically, it implies a programmer, probably of the CDC ilk, probably male, and almost certainly wearing a tie (irrespective of gender). Systems types who have a Unix background tend not to be described as crayons.
2. A computron that participates only in number crunching.
3. A unit of computational power equal to that of a single Cray-1. There is a standard joke about this usage that derives from an old Crayola crayon promotional gimmick: When you buy 64 crayons you get a free sharpener.
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(1994-10-13)
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crayon
n.1. Someone who works on Cray supercomputers. More specifically, it implies a programmer, probably of the CDC ilk, probably male, and almost certainly wearing a tie (irrespective of gender). Systems types who have a Unix background tend not to be described as crayons.
2. Formerly, anyone who worked for Cray Research; since the buyout by SGI, anyone they inherited from Cray.
3. A computron (sense 2) that participates only in number-crunching.
4. A unit of computational power equal to that of a single Cray-1. There is a standard joke about this usage that derives from an old Crayola crayon promotional gimmick: When you buy 64 crayons you get a free sharpener.
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Crayon
Chalk\, n. [AS. cealc lime, from L. calx limestone. See Calz, and Cawk.]1. (Min.) A soft, earthy substance, of a white, grayish, or yellowish white color, consisting of calcium carbonate, and having the same composition as common limestone. 2. (Fine Arts) Finely prepared chalk, used as a drawing implement; also, by extension, a compound, as of clay and black lead, or the like, used in the same manner. See Crayon. Black chalk, a mineral of a bluish color, of a slaty texture, and soiling the fingers when handled; a variety of argillaceous slate. By a long chalk, by a long way; by many degrees. [Slang] --Lowell. Chalk drawing (Fine Arts), a drawing made with crayons. See Crayon. Chalk formation. See Cretaceous formation, under Cretaceous. Chalk line, a cord rubbed with chalk, used for making straight lines on boards or other material, as a guide in cutting or in arranging work. Chalk mixture, a preparation of chalk, cinnamon, and sugar in gum water, much used in diarrheal affection, esp. of infants. Chalk period. (Geol.) See Cretaceous period, under Cretaceous. Chalk pit, a pit in which chalk is dug. Drawing chalk. See Crayon, n., 1. French chalk, steatite or soapstone, a soft magnesian mineral. Red chalk, an indurated clayey ocher containing iron, and used by painters and artificers; reddle.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Crayon
Chalk\, n. [AS. cealc lime, from L. calx limestone. See Calz, and Cawk.]1. (Min.) A soft, earthy substance, of a white, grayish, or yellowish white color, consisting of calcium carbonate, and having the same composition as common limestone. 2. (Fine Arts) Finely prepared chalk, used as a drawing implement; also, by extension, a compound, as of clay and black lead, or the like, used in the same manner. See Crayon. Black chalk, a mineral of a bluish color, of a slaty texture, and soiling the fingers when handled; a variety of argillaceous slate. By a long chalk, by a long way; by many degrees. [Slang] --Lowell. Chalk drawing (Fine Arts), a drawing made with crayons. See Crayon. Chalk formation. See Cretaceous formation, under Cretaceous. Chalk line, a cord rubbed with chalk, used for making straight lines on boards or other material, as a guide in cutting or in arranging work. Chalk mixture, a preparation of chalk, cinnamon, and sugar in gum water, much used in diarrheal affection, esp. of infants. Chalk period. (Geol.) See Cretaceous period, under Cretaceous. Chalk pit, a pit in which chalk is dug. Drawing chalk. See Crayon, n., 1. French chalk, steatite or soapstone, a soft magnesian mineral. Red chalk, an indurated clayey ocher containing iron, and used by painters and artificers; reddle.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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