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- Dictionarystencil/ˈstɛnsl/
noun
- 1. a thin sheet of card, plastic, or metal with a pattern or letters cut out of it, used to produce the cut design on the surface below by the application of ink or paint through the holes: "stencil designs such as fruit"
verb
- 1. decorate (a surface) with a stencil: "the walls had been stencilled with designs"
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The meaning of STENCIL is an impervious material (such as a sheet of paper, thin wax, or woven fabric) perforated with lettering or a design through which a substance (such as ink, paint, or metallic powder) is forced onto a surface to be printed.
STENCIL definition: 1. a piece of card, plastic, metal, etc. into which shapes have been cut, used to draw or paint…. Learn more.
Stencil definition: a device for applying a pattern, design, words, etc., to a surface, consisting of a thin sheet of cardboard, metal, or other material from which figures or letters have been cut out, a coloring substance, ink, etc., being rubbed, brushed, or pressed over the sheet, passing through the perforations and onto the surface..
STENCIL meaning: 1. a piece of card, plastic, metal, etc. into which shapes have been cut, used to draw or paint…. Learn more.
A stencil is a piece of paper, plastic, or metal which has a design cut out of it. You place the stencil on a surface and paint it so that paint goes through the holes and leaves a design on the surface.
1. A sheet, as of plastic or cardboard, in which a desired lettering or design has been cut so that ink or paint applied to the sheet will reproduce the pattern on the surface beneath. 2. The lettering or design produced with such a sheet. 3. The process of printing with such a sheet.
A stencil is a stiff sheet of material with a design or image cut out of it. When you apply ink or paint to the stencil , the design is printed on the surface below. Number and letter stencils make it easier to paint your new boat's name on its hull or to put your address on your mailbox.
Definition of stencil noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
stencil - definition, audio pronunciation and more for stencil: 1. a piece of paper or plastic with patterns cut into it, that you use to paint patterns onto a…: See more in Learner's Dictionary - Cambridge Dictionary.
Japanese Ise-katagami stencil for printing textiles. Stencilling produces an image or pattern on a surface by applying pigment to a surface through an intermediate object, with designed holes in the intermediate object. The holes allow the pigment to reach only some parts of the surface creating the design.
