crayon
crayon
Definition
crayon (krā′ən, -än′)
noun
- a small stick of chalk, charcoal, or colored wax, used for drawing, coloring, or writing
- 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
cray′·on·ist noun
crayon
Synonyms
crayon
n.
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
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