stencil

English

Stencil

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈstɛnsɪl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈstɛnsəl/
• Rhymes: -ɛnsəl

Noun

stencil (plural stencils)

1. A thin sheet either perforated or with some other technique, with which a pattern may be produced upon a surface
2. A utensil that contains a perforated sheet through which ink can be forced to create a printed pattern onto a surface.
3. A typeface looking as if made by the utensil.^{W:Stencil (typeface)}
4. A two-ply master sheet for use with a spirit duplicator (ditto machine).

Derived terms

• stencil art

Translations

utensil consisting of a perforated sheet

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 漏字版 (lòuzìbǎn)

• Czech: šablona (cs) f
• Finnish: kaavain, malline (fi), kaavalevy, luotta (fi), sabloni, sapluuna (fi); vahas (for mimeograph)
• French: pochoir (fr)
• German: Schablone (de) f
• Indonesian: stensil (id)
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: trafarets m

• Malay: stensil
• Maori: tahua
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sjablong m

  Nynorsk: sjablong m

• Portuguese: estêncil (pt) m, régua vazada f
• Russian: трафаре́т (ru) (trafarét)
• Spanish: estarcido (es) m, esténcil m
• Swedish: schablon (sv) c
• Tagalog: panlimwad

See also

• pochoir

Verb

stencil (third-person singular simple present stencils, present participle (UK) stencilling or (US) stenciling, simple past and past participle (UK) stencilled or (US) stenciled)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To print with a stencil.

Further reading

• stencil on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• clients
• lectins