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stencil

ˈstɛnsɪl
WordNet
Stencilled sheet, filled in with red pen, stating that MJ Sanou cannot miss his bicycle because of the exercise of his profession. Signed and dated.
Stencilled sheet, filled in with red pen, stating that MJ Sanou cannot miss his bicycle because of the exercise of his profession. Signed and dated.
  1. (v) stencil
    mark or print with a stencil
  2. (n) stencil
    a sheet of material (metal, plastic, cardboard, waxed paper, silk, etc.) that has been perforated with a pattern (printing or a design); ink or paint can pass through the perforations to create the printed pattern on the surface below
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Stencil
    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.
  2. Stencil
    To mark, paint, or color in figures with stencils; to form or print by means of a stencil.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. stencil
    To mark out or paint by means of a stencil.
  2. (n) stencil
    A thin plate or sheet of any substance in which a figure, letter, or pattern is formed by cutting through the plate. If the plate thus cut is placed upon a surface and rubbed with color or ink, the pattern or figure will be marked on the underlying substance. For many purposes, the letters, etc., are cut through completely; for transferring a pattern, as in embroidery, the lines of the pattern are often indicated by small holes. In wall-decoration, etc., both these plans are employed. Different stencils are often used in the same design, each for a different color.
  3. (n) stencil
    The coloring matter used in marking with a stencil-plate.
  4. (n) stencil
    In ceramics, a preparation laid upon the biscuit to keep the oil used in transfer-printing or enameling from adhering to the surface; hence, the pattern traced by this preparation, reserving a panel or medallion of the unaltered color of the biscuit.
  5. (n) stencil
    A door-post; a stanchion.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Stencil
    sten′sil a plate of metal, &c., with a pattern cut out, which is impressed upon a surface by drawing a brush with colour over it
  2. (v.t) Stencil
    to print or paint by means of a stencil:—pr.p. sten′cilling; pa.t. and pa.p. sten′cilled
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Probably from OF. estincelle, spangle, spark, F. étincelle, spark, L. scintilla,. See Scintillate, and cf. Tinsel

Usage in the news

I purchased sizes 2 and 6 and found them useful with all sizes and shapes of stencils . motherearthnews.com

Stencils , mainly in the form of adhesive wall stencils (really more like stickers), have become all the rage in the past few years. yankeemagazine.com

The signs are familiar around town: green with gold letters stenciled on them. blog.al.com

A Unicorn Stencil presentation in association with the Missouri History Museum. variety.com

Order stickers, stationery or a stencil to help you brand as many items as you can. texaswest.com

The stencil print by Dave Lowenstein shows Brownback with tears in his eyes and flames behind him. hutchnews.com

The stencil print by Dave Lowenstein shows Brownback with tears in his eyes, with flames behind him. knssradio.com

Ganache Coating & Sugar Stencils. parents.com

Enlarge John Gomez/For The Jersey Journal Roses inserted into some of the stenciled letters of victims' names. nj.com

Kids can cut their own stencils from contact paper to make these pretty, painted pumpkin crafts. parents.com

One has a stenciled mark on the underside. dwell.com

Surface area ratios (SAR) as low as 0.55 when used with the UltraSlic stencil technology. impomag.com

After cutting, carefully and slowly separate the two sheets and your stencil is ready. airbrushaction.com

BHG.com / Free Printable Pumpkin Stencils. bhg.com

Use these stencil patterns to create cute (or creepy) Halloween pumpkins that will surprise your guests. bhg.com

Usage in scientific papers

As for the plot given below, we assume that a sphere is lit up by a stencil beam entering the sphere at the center of the image.
Surface Curvature Effects on Reflectance from Translucent Materials

Before each single level update from time tℓ to time tℓ + ∆tℓ , a ring of “ghost” cells sufficiently large to complete the stencils required to update valid-region data on each gridpatch is filled in.
Constrained-Transport Magnetohydrodynamics with Adaptive-Mesh-Refinement in CHARM

In the case of Bifrost , computing the derivatives or interpolating the variables uses a stencil of 6 grid points.
The stellar atmosphere simulation code Bifrost

The two possible solutions are to communicate the needed data to neighboring nodes every time it is needed, and the other is to supply each node with a number of “ghost cells” around its allocated subdomain so that the whole stencil used in for instance a derivative operator is present at the node that needs it.
The stellar atmosphere simulation code Bifrost

Here 1 ≤ k ≤ ne is a local index, counting the elements in the stencil, and j = j (k) is the mapping from the local index k to the global indexation of the elements in QΩ .
Very High Order $\PNM$ Schemes on Unstructured Meshes for the Resistive Relativistic MHD Equations

Usage in literature

To the stencil-plate chivalry of the lyrics of the ubiquitous F.E. "Contemporary American Composers" by Rupert Hughes

I stencil cases in cargo holds! "The Pirates of Ersatz" by Murray Leinster

The curtains were not down; but now, attached to the Flobert Rifle, was a stencilled card. "The Adventures of Bobby Orde" by Stewart Edward White

It was oval in shape, and had a stencilled rim in a conventional design. "Polly's Business Venture" by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

Stencil the organization designation on the lower half of the middle width of canvas in the back wall. "Manual of Military Training" by James A. Moss

When it is to be used with a stencil it must be made thicker than when it is used with a brush. "One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed" by C. A. Bogardus

All were tinted by hand, sometimes with the help of stencil plates, but more often by brush. "Children's Books and Their Illustrators" by Gleeson White

They may possibly have been stenciled. "Paul and the Printing Press" by Sara Ware Bassett

Here's a suit of space fatigues with Nineteen's number stenciled inside. "The Love of Frank Nineteen" by David Carpenter Knight

Why are stencil-like methods bad? "Great Pianists on Piano Playing" by James Francis Cooke

Usage in poetry
Crystals encrusted,
Diamonds dusted
Line everything,
Tiny the stencillings
Are as the pencillings
On a moth's wing.
Stand forth for God and liberty,
Stand forth for human rights;
In one strong effort, worthy thee,
Soul stenciled, be a light.
Time's etching gives her tone of thought,
God's etching shows divinely bought
Soul stenciled by the spirit taught—
She's fix-ed.
The shades of night were falling fast,
As through an Eastern village passed
A youth who bore, through dust and heat,
A stencil-plate, that read complete--"SAPOLIO."
His brow was sad, his mouth was dry;
It was the first day of July,
And where, all parched and scorched it hung,
These words was stenciled on his tongue:
"No beer, no work."
A wooden cross surveys my bones,
With on it stenciled: Peter Jones.
And round it are five hundred more;
(A proper job did old man War!)
So young they were, so fresh, so fit,
So hopeful - that's the hell of it.