crayon
crayon — noun
- crayonsingular
- crayonsplural
1. a short, thin stick made from coloured wax that children push across paper to ma
a short, thin stick made from coloured wax that children push across paper to make pictures or letters.
Folake handed her little brother a red crayon to finish the dragon.
collocation: hand someone a [colour] crayon
The teacher emptied a tub of crayons onto the table for art class.
collocation: a tub / box / packet of crayons
Mauricio kept breaking the tips of his crayons because he pressed too hard.
There were broken crayons under every chair after the birthday party at Esme's house.
Jisoo chose a green crayon and carefully coloured the leaves on the tree.
- coloured pencil
pencil-shaped, sharpenable; different tool though sometimes loosely grouped with crayons.
- wax crayon
more explicit version of the same word; useful when distinguishing from oil pastels or chalk.
文法句型
a crayon
with a crayon
用法筆記
Subject is typically a child or a person drawing informally. Distinguish from sense-adjacent tools by material: crayons are wax, coloured pencils have wooden barrels, and chalk is dusty mineral.
常見錯誤
crayon — verb
- crayonpresent simple I / you / we / they
- crayons3rd person singular
- crayoning-ing form
- crayonedpast simple
1. to make a picture, mark, or shape on a surface using a wax crayon.
to make a picture, mark, or shape on a surface using a wax crayon.
Selim crayoned a large yellow sun in the corner of the kitchen wall.
transitive: crayon + object (the thing drawn)
Talia spent the whole afternoon crayoning pictures of cats for her grandmother.
The children had crayoned all over the back of the wedding invitation.
Rohan crayoned his name in big purple letters at the top of the page.
文法句型
crayon something
crayon on something
用法筆記
Subject is usually a child; the verb almost always describes children's drawing rather than adult artwork. When the surface (not the picture) is the focus, use 'on' (crayon on the wall).