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名詞

pencilmark (plural pencilmarks)

1. A mark or line made using a pencil.
   • 2014, Alan E Nelson, How to Grow Your Soul: Developing Spiritual Intelligence, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, page 34

     Like pencilmarks on a doorjamb that a parent uses to record a child’s height, you can compare old feedback with new, every six to eighteen months.

   • 1984, Wit, Augusta de, Java, facts and fancies, Oxford University Press, page 85

     To make assurance doubly sure, you put a pencilmark against the name and “day” of your own particular great man.

   • 1986, Dezettel, Louis M, Masons and builders library, Macmillan Pub., page 278

     Then pencilmark the outer edges for a guide. Another way is to drive stakes into the ground and use string guides on all four sides.

   • 1973, Shaw, Bob, Tomorrow Lies in Ambush, Ace Books, page 59

     Geissler was seated at his glass-topped desk making pencilmarks on a dark gray punched tape. “Come in, John. I didn’t expect you. What’s the matter? You getting this 1753?”

   • 2006, Gould, Wayne, New York Post Bathroom Sudoku: The Official Utterly Addictive Number-Placing Puzzle, Collins, page 19

     You might do this with pencilmarks and find that 8 and 9 can go only in the two cells marked ‘c. Or you might notice the 8 and 9 in row 8, and the 8 and 9 in row 9, and realize that the 8 and 9 in box 7 have to go in row 7. And if you are really skilled, you might never bother writing any pencilmarks at all.