ALL meanings of crayon
cray·on
C c - countable noun crayon A crayon is a pencil containing coloured wax or clay, or a rod of coloured wax used for drawing. 3
- noun crayon a small stick or pencil of charcoal, wax, clay, or chalk mixed with coloured pigment 3
- noun crayon a drawing made with crayons 3
- verb crayon to draw or colour with crayons 3
- noun crayon a small stick of chalk, charcoal, or colored wax, used for drawing, coloring, or writing 3
- verb transitive crayon to draw or color with crayons 3
- noun crayon wax drawing stick 1
- intransitive verb crayon use crayons 1
- adjective crayon drawing: in crayon 1
- transitive verb crayon draw or write in crayon 1
- noun Technical meaning of crayon 1. Someone who works on Cray supercomputers. More specifically, it implies a programmer, probably of the CDC ilk, probably male, and almost certainly wearing a tie (irrespective of gender). Systems types who have a Unix background tend not to be described as crayons. 2. A computron that participates only in number crunching. 3. A unit of computational power equal to that of a single Cray-1. There is a standard joke about this usage that derives from an old Crayola crayon promotional gimmick: When you buy 64 crayons you get a free sharpener. 1
- noun crayon a pointed stick or pencil of colored clay, chalk, wax, etc., used for drawing or coloring. 1
- noun crayon a drawing in crayons. 1
- verb with object crayon to draw or color with a crayon or crayons. 1
- verb without object crayon to make a drawing with crayons. 1
- noun crayon A pencil or stick of colored chalk or wax, used for drawing. 1
- noun crayon A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing; a colored pencil. 0
- noun crayon (dated) A crayon drawing. 0
- noun crayon (dated) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light. 0
- verb crayon To draw with a crayon. 0