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), 铅芯笔 (jyun⁴ sam¹ bat¹)

  Mandarin: 自動鉛筆／自动铅笔 (zh) (zìdòng qiānbǐ), 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
• 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)
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• 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

Further reading

• mechanical pencil on Wikipedia.Wikipedia