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cray·on 
[krey-on, -uhn] Pronunciation Key
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[krey-on, -uhn] Pronunciation Key –noun
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–verb (used without object)
| 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]
] —Related forms
cray·on·ist, noun
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| cray·on
(krā'ŏn', -ən) Pronunciation Key
n.
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
crayon
1644, from Fr. crayon "pencil," orig. "chalk pencil," from craie "chalk," from L. creta "chalk."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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| crayon | |
noun | |
| 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 |
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Free On-line Dictionary of Computing - Cite This Source - Share This
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.
[The Jargon File]
(1994-10-13)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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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.
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.
Jargon File 4.2.0
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Crayon
Cray"on\ (kr?"?n), n. [F., a crayon, a lead pencil (crayon Cont['e] Cont['e]'s pencil, i. e., one made a black compound invented by Cont['e]), fr. craie chalk, L. creta; said to be, properly, Cretan earth, fr. Creta the island Crete. Cf. Cretaceous.]1. An implement for drawing, made of clay and plumbago, or of some preparation of chalk, usually sold in small prisms or cylinders. Let no day pass over you . . . without giving some strokes of the pencil or the crayon. --Dryden. Note: The black crayon gives a deeper black than the lead pencil. This and the colored crayons are often called chalks. The red crayon is also called sanguine. See Chalk, and Sanguine. 2. A crayon drawing. 3. (Electricity) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light. Crayon board, cardboard with a surface prepared for crayon drawing. Crayon drawing, the act or art of drawing with crayons; a drawing made with crayons.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Crayon
Cray"on\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crayoned (-?nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Crayoning.] [Cf. F. crayonner.] To sketch, as with a crayon; to sketch or plan. He soon afterwards composed that discourse, conformably to the plan which he had crayoned out. --Malone.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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