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noun
1.
a pointed stick or pencil of colored clay, chalk, wax, etc., used for drawing or coloring.
2.
a drawing in crayons.
verb (used with object)
3.
to draw or color with a crayon or crayons.
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verb (used without object)
4.
to make a drawing with crayons.
Origin:
1635–45; < French, equivalent to craie chalk (< Latin crēta clay, chalk) + -on noun suffix
1635–45; < French, equivalent to craie chalk (< Latin crēta clay, chalk) + -on noun suffix
Related forms
cray·on·ist, noun
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Word Origin & History
crayon
1644, from Fr. crayon "pencil," orig. "chalk pencil," from craie "chalk," from L. creta "chalk."
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crayon definition
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.
[Jargon File]
(1994-10-13)
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia
crayon
an implement for drawing made from clay, chalk, plumbago, dry colour, and wax. There are two types of crayons, the colouring crayon and the chalk crayon.
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Encyclopedia Britannica, 2008. Encyclopedia Britannica Online.
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