Crossword-Solution: STENCIL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Stencil | n. | 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. |
| Stencil | v. t. | To mark, paint, or color in figures with stencils; to form or print by means of a stencil. |
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| STENCIL | anagram | CLIENTS, SILENTC |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with STENCIL (5)
The Custom-House marker imprinted it, with a stencil and black paint, on pepper-bags, and baskets of anatto, and cigar-boxes, and bales of all kinds of dutiable merchandise, in testimony that these commodities had paid the impost, and gone regularly through the office.
More mundanely, the dominant technology for mass duplication of paper documents in pre-photocopying days involved "cutting a stencil", punching away portions of the wax overlay on a silk screen.
Before Henery could stop, he runs the radiator--very near boiling she was--up against the elephant's tail, and prints the pattern of the latest honeycomb radiator on the elephant as clear as if you done it with a stencil.
Until within the last few years the printing of cards was generally done by stencilling, the colour being applied through perforated devices in a stencil-plate.
The writing is thus traced by means of a series of minute perforations in the sheet, from which, as a stencil, hundreds of copies can be made.
Quotes with STENCIL (2)
Humans are aware of very little, it seems to me, the artificial brainy side of life, the worries and bills and the mechanisms of jobs, the doltish psychologies we've placed over our lives like a stencil. A dog keeps his life simple and unadorned.
When you look at Banksy's work as a catalogue of ideas, it's undeniably brilliant. Going back to my days doing stencil work back in the 80s I knew that it wasn't exactly the most demanding work: it's like printing, but then Warhol was a printer.
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Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 104 times in crossword archives (1952–2023).