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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stencil
I.noun
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■ VERB
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▪ Special fabric paint is applied using a stencil brush and then the design is fixed permanently by pressing with an iron.
▪ If you want a more definite pattern or motif the easiest method to achieve this is to use a stencil.
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▪ Correction of errors or alterations on the stencil are easily made by using special correcting fluid. 3.
▪ Electronic stencils produce photographic reproduction. 4.
▪ For starters, our model is right-handed -- and so was the intricately cut plastic stencil.
▪ Good quality stencils can produce several hundred copies per run, and, if stored carefully, can be reused. 2.
▪ The stencils are sold to companies which use them to produce semiconductor chips.
▪ This time she squeezed the paste on to the stencil in thin ribbons and smoothed it evenly over her left palm.
▪ Two pieces of leather, glued together on three sides, and monogrammed with the aid of a stencil.
II.verb
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▪ Her footprint was stencilled across the thick hand-made paper.
▪ If they are rather worse for wear you could always just paint and perhaps stencil them.
▪ It was stencilled in white paint on the freight car fourth from the front.
▪ The lead engine had a canvas dodger along its canopy, that was stencilled in crude letters: Look Out, Fritz!
▪ The name was stencilled inside a brass frame on the fourth door along.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stencil

Stencil \Sten"cil\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stenciledor Stencilled; p. pr. & vb. n. Stenciling or Stencilling.] To mark, paint, or color in figures with stencils; to form or print by means of a stencil.

Stencil

Stencil \Sten"cil\, n. [Probably from OF. estincelle spangle, spark, F. ['e]tincelle spark, L. scintilla. See Scintillate, and cf. Tinsel.] A thin plate of metal, leather, or other material, used in painting, marking, etc. The pattern is cut out of the plate, which is then laid flat on the surface to be marked, and the color brushed over it. Called also stencil plate.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stencil

1707, not recorded again until 1848, probably from Middle English stencellen "decorate with bright colors," from Middle French estenceler "cover with sparkles or stars, powder with color," from estencele "spark, spangle" (Modern French étincelle), from Vulgar Latin *stincilla, metathesis of Latin scintilla "spark" (see scintilla).

stencil

"to produce a design with a stencil," 1861, from stencil (n.). Related: Stenciled; stenciling (1781 as a verbal noun).

Wiktionary
stencil

n. 1 A utensil that contains a perforated sheet through which ink can be forced to create a printed pattern onto a surface. 2 A typeface looking as if made by the utensil.Stencil (typeface) vb. (context transitive intransitive English) To print with a stencil.

WordNet
stencil
  1. n. device that has a sheet perforated with printing through which ink or paint can pass to create a printed pattern

  2. v. mark or print with a stencil

  3. [also: stencilling, stencilled]

Wikipedia
Stencil

Stencilling produces an image or pattern by applying pigment to a surface over an intermediate object with designed gaps in it which create the pattern or image by only allowing the pigment to reach some parts of the surface. The stencil is both the resulting image or pattern and the intermediate object; the context in which stencil is used makes clear which meaning is intended. In practice, the (object) stencil is usually a thin sheet of material, such as paper, plastic, wood or metal, with letters or a design cut from it, used to produce the letters or design on an underlying surface by applying pigment through the cut-out holes in the material.

The key advantage of a stencil is that it can be reused to repeatedly and rapidly produce the same letters or design. Although aerosol or painting stencils can be made for one-time use, typically they are made with the intention of being reused. To be reusable, they must remain intact after a design is produced and the stencil is removed from the work surface. With some designs, this is done by connecting stencil islands (sections of material that are inside cut-out "holes" in the stencil) to other parts of the stencil with bridges (narrow sections of material that are not cut out).

Stencil technique in visual art is also referred to as pochoir. A related technique (which has found applicability in some surrealist compositions) is aerography, in which spray-painting is done around a three-dimensional object to create a negative of the object instead of a positive of a stencil design. This technique was used in cave paintings dating to 10,000 BC, where human hands were used in painting hand print outlines among paintings of animals and other objects. The artist sprayed pigment around his hand by using a hollow bone, blown by mouth to direct a stream of pigment.

Screen printing also uses a stencil process, as does mimeography. The masters from which mimeographed pages are printed are often called "stencils". Stencils can be made with one or many colour layers using different techniques, with most stencils designed to be applied as solid colours. During screen printing and mimeography the images for stenciling are broken down into color layers. Multiple layers of stencils are used on the same surface to produce multi-colored images.

Stencil (typeface)

Stencil refers to two typefaces released with in months of each other in 1937. The face created by R. Hunter Middleton for Ludlow was advertised in June, while Gerry Powell's version for American Type Founders appeared one month later. Both fonts consist of only capital letters with rounded edges and thick main strokes, much like a Clarendon typeface, except with breaks in the face to give it the appearance of the stenciled alphabets used on boxes and crates. Powell's exploration of Stencil became very popular over time and is still used today.

Stencil (disambiguation)

A stencil is a template used to draw or paint identical letters, symbols, shapes, or patterns every time it is used. The design produced by such a template is also called a stencil.

It may also refer to:

  • Stencil buffer, used in 3D computer graphics
  • Stencil code, a class of algorithms
  • Stencil graffiti, stencils used in street art
  • Stencil (numerical analysis)
  • Stencil (typeface), a font
Stencil (numerical analysis)

In mathematics, especially the areas of numerical analysis concentrating on the numerical solution of partial differential equations, a stencil is a geometric arrangement of a nodal group that relate to the point of interest by using a numerical approximation routine. Stencils are the basis for many algorithms to numerically solve partial differential equations (PDE). Two examples of stencils are the five-point stencil and the Crank–Nicolson method stencil.

Stencils are classified into two categories: compact and non-compact, the difference being the layers from the point of interest that are also used for calculation.

In the notation used for one-dimensional stencils n-1, n, n+1 indicate the time steps where timestep n and n-1 have known solutions and time step n+1 is to be calculated. The spatial location of finite volumes used in the calculation are indicated by j-1, j and j+1.

Usage examples of "stencil".

On the cover was the stenciled outline of a fire extinguisher spitting bullets through its nozzle.

Lo Manto looked at the young man and stared at the name stenciled on his ID tag.

We do not walk ganged, Stencil, all our separate selves, like Siamese quintuplets or more.

Saul and I spent many lazy shiftdays working in a bondhouse by the old quays, clambering over teachests with buckets of ink, endlessly stencilling a guild symbol which was something like a fat-bellied three.

He swept the duplicated sheets into a pile, added a couple of unrun stencils, and clasped them to himself with his left arm.

And clownish Stencil capering along behind her, bells ajingle, waving a wooden, toy oxgoad.

From the rest of the lamplit gloom his eyes picked out a pallet on the groundsheet of the tent, hooks on the central pole of the tent for clothing and weapons, a chest with her name and rank stenciled on it in the blockier form of Nantukhtar writing.

The entrance to the plasma center was from the side street, up four cement steps, through a set of glass doors stenciled in blue with the name Bloodlines as well as a parent corporation, Lifeways Inc.

The Emperor Justin I, who reigned between the years 518 and 527, could not write, and was obliged to sign state papers with the form of stencil plate that had been recommended by Quintilian.

Wilson, have unnecessary light-blue Wilson covers on all their courtside synthetic-strung sticks and big red Ws stencilled onto their Wilson synth-gut strings.

The artillerymen wrecked the wheels and spiked the vents of their old guns, then dragged away their new weapons, each of which displayed a neatly stenciled legend on its trail: PROPERTY OF THE USA.

Betsy had boarded the train wearing her plain and everyday striped cotton boxer shorts, her T-shirt with the sunflowers stenciled on the front and back, her Roman espadrilles laced up to her knees, and a knapsack slung over her back, its canvas sides strained by her Dante and Beatrice bookends, her alabaster horse, and her treasure box, plus a stone she had grubbed from the foundation landscaping as her mother was hustling her out to the taxi waiting at the curb in front of their house.

He took a transparent stencil with many circles and placed it over the various craters in the visible part of the screen.

Wednesday the skies had cleared and Kate, standing at the very top of the stepladder and stencilling at the apex of the rafters, paused, blowing her hair upwards, easing her shoulders.

I grabbed them away from her and pointed to the red-and-white striped electrovan with the words Poliklinische centrum stenciled on its side, idling at an intersection because of the parade.