mechanical pencil

mechanical pencil

English

Different mechanical pencils

Noun

mechanical pencil (plural mechanical pencils)

1. (Canada, US) A pencil with a replaceable and mechanically extendable lead that wears away with use, designed to provide lines of constant thickness without requiring sharpening, and typically featuring a small eraser at the end opposite the tip.

Synonyms

• (UK) retractable pencil, propelling pencil
• (Australian) pacer
• clutch pencil (Australia; New Zealand; Indian English)
• lead pencil (Bangladeshi English)
• automatic pencil, drafting pencil, technical pencil
• click pencil, leadholder, pen pencil (India)

Translations

pencil with a retractable lead

Arabic: قَلَم الرَصَاص مِيقَانِيقِيّ‎ (qalam ar-raṣāṣ mīqānīqiyy) Armenian: please add this translation if you can Catalan: portamines Chinese: Cantonese: 鉛芯筆, 铅芯笔 (jyun4 sam1 bat1) Mandarin: 自動鉛筆／自动铅笔 (zh) (zìdòng qiānbǐ) Czech: mikrotužka f Danish: stiftblyant c, trykblyant c Dutch: vulpotlood (nl) n Esperanto: mekanika krajono (eo) Finnish: lyijytäytekynä French: porte-mine (fr) m, portemine (fr) m Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Druckbleistift m, Minenschreiber m, mechanischer Stift m, Fallbleistift m Greek: μηχανικό μολύβι n (michanikó molývi) Hebrew: עט עיפרון‎ m (et iparón), עיפרון מכני‎ (he) (iparón mekháni) Hindi: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: rotring, rotringceruza, töltőceruza Icelandic: skrúfblýantur m, blýpenni m Indonesian: pensil mekanik Irish: peann luaidhe meicniúil m Italian: portamina (it) m, portamine m Japanese: シャープペンシル (ja) (shāpupenshiru), (abbreviation) シャーペン (ja) (shāpen) Kannada: please add this translation if you can Khmer: ខ្មៅដៃចុច (khmawdaycoc) Korean: 샤프펜실 (syapeupensil) Macedonian: тенкоми́нец m (tenkomínec) Malay: pensil mekanikal Maltese: please add this translation if you can Polish: ołówek automatyczny m inan Portuguese: lapiseira (pt) f Russian: механи́ческий каранда́ш m (mexaníčeskij karandáš) Scottish Gaelic: please add this translation if you can Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: минерица Roman: minerica Spanish: portaminas (es) m, lápiz mecánico m, lapicero (es) m Swedish: stiftpenna (sv) c Tagalog: please add this translation if you can Thai: ดินสอกด (din-sɔ̌ɔ-gòt) Tibetan: please add this translation if you can Turkish: please add this translation if you can Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: viết chì bấm, bút chì bấm Welsh: mecanyddol (cy)

See also

• mechanical eraser