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cray·on       (krā'ŏn', -ən)  Pronunciation Key  n.   A stick of colored wax, charcoal, or chalk, used for drawing. A drawing made with one of these sticks. 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
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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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)

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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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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.

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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.

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