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crayon Definition

crayon (krāən, -än′)

noun

  1. a small stick of chalk, charcoal, or colored wax, used for drawing, coloring, or writing
  2. a drawing made with crayons

Etymology: Fr, pencil < craie, chalk < L creta, chalk, white earth, prob. < (terra) creta, sifted (earth) < pp. of cernere, to sift: see crisis

transitive verb

to draw or color with crayons

crayon Related Forms
cray·on·ist noun
crayon Synonyms

crayon

n.

chalk, pastel, colored wax, crayon pencil, lithographic pencil, drawing medium, conté crayon, wax crayon, Crayola (trademark); see also pencil 1.

crayon Usage Examples

Preposition: on

  • paper: P P Wax painting Draw a picture with wax crayons on paper.

Converse of object

  • use: Using a specially designed board, you use crayons to draw your railroad lines.
  • get: Missy gets a red crayon to color the giraffe's eyes.
  • hold: She has always loved art and animals and has been drawing and creating since she could hold a crayon.
  • have: It's also useful to have some fat crayons, thick washable felt tip pens or chalk.
  • eat: BABY My baby is only 1 month old and can already solve quadratic equations, but has the awkward habit of eating crayons.
  • melt: She made collages of pictures cut from magazines and messy candles out of melted crayons.

Adjective modifier

  • chunky: Toddlers love to scribble on pieces of paper with chunky crayons.
  • purple: Further browsing can be done by clicking the relevant parts of the purple crayon at the bottom of each subsequent page.
  • colored: There was also a large picture in a very handsome frame, done in colored crayons.
  • blue: During this stage, someone numbered several of the speeches in blue crayon, in an attempt to order them.
  • red: Looks like Hyundai's new head of design is three year-old kid with a red crayon.
  • yellow: All around the ladder, in yellow crayons, I draw angels with wings.

Modifies a noun

  • color: Which is one also look for crayon colors like switched between english.
  • drawing: He was also awarded a premium of thirty guineas by the Society of Arts for a new method of fixing crayon drawings.
  • mark: The shelves are made of slate slabs, some of which still have the mason's or quarryman's crayon marks on their undersides.
  • sketch: The walls of the garret were covered with bits of paper on which were crayon sketches; he possessed only four clean canvases.

Noun used with modifier

  • wax: P P Wax painting Draw a picture with wax crayons on paper.
  • pencil: You can also pack goodies such as a coloring book, a note pad and pencil crayons.
  • oil: On the second day, oil crayon was used to enhance the painted areas or to add something new.

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