Definition of stencil in English:

stencil

nounPlural stencils ˈstɛns(ə)lˈstɛnsəl

1A 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.
（印刷图案或文字的）模板；（油印用的）蜡纸
as modifier stencil designs such as fruit
Example sentencesExamples
- Position the border and design stencils shiny-side-down on the fabric.
- Simply place the stencil in the desired location on the wall and hold it in place with masking tape.
- It just takes a little glass paint and a stencil or template.
- Judging by the consistency of their designs, the quilts imitating fashionable appliquéd patterns may have been painted using professionally cut stencils, which were available after 1835.
- Pencil on your design or alternatively use a stencil to trace the outline of your design.
- Paint the walls blue, and then paint grass growing above the baseboard, and use stencils and white paint for clouds.
- Any idiot with spray paint and a stencil can put a name on a ship.
- When painting with a stencil cut out use a short bristled brush and with a dabbing motion apply your paint.
- Matt had made the design, a friend hit on the idea of using stencils and spray paint, and the crew started tagging.
- Allow to dry, then remove the stencil to reveal the picture.
- In subsequent works, he created permutating, off-centered grids with spray paint applied through stencils.
- Carefully remove the stencil and wipe off the excess wet paint with a rag.
- I would recommend looking at what ready-made stencils there are before deciding whether or not to use them.
- I would take the time to make a good set of letter stencils out of transparency film and then use acrylic paint with textile medium to paint the shirts.
- Many paint and craft stores sell pre-cut, reusable plastic stencils in a variety of patterns, such as leaves, ivy, flowers, etc.
- If stains are placed afterward, stencils should be left in place until after the staining process is complete.
- Use your own imagination or buy a ready-made stencil.
- Women purchased metal stencils with their names cut in, and used them for writing their names on household linens and clothing or other needlework and they also used them to sign their quilt blocks.
- I cut out a paper stencil and sprayed through it onto the chairs.
- Lay a tablecloth on a flat surface and place the stencils, securing them with a bit of tape.
Synonyms
model, example, criterion, standard, basis, point of reference, gauge, norm, formula, guide, scale, guideline, yardstick, touchstone, benchmark, ideal, exemplar, paradigm, canon
1. 1.1 A design produced by a stencil.
  （用模板或蜡纸印成的）图案
  a floral stencil around the top of the room
  房间顶部的花形图案。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The resulting paintings based on the stencil were popular and sold well to tourists.
  Or use border tiles to define a panel or tiled splashback, and then echo the motif as a stencil along the bottom edge of your table linen or roller blinds.
  The walls were dark blue with painted star stencils all over the walls.
  Some of them are shelters like this major one with drawings and stencils.
  The plates were placed on a roof with stencils covering the positive areas of the portrait.
  Recently, this has found me making stencils, which, like lithographs, are quick, effective, and actually available for masses of people to see.
  Other campaigners spray painted carefully designed stencils on pavements.
  Smack dab in the middle of the canvas, an enormous silhouetted hen sits contentedly on her nest, framed by a field of radiant orange-on-orange floral stencils over a hot-pink background.
  Tactics these groups use include spray-painting stencils on pavements, altering billboards and displaying posters and stickers in public places.
  He encouraged others to join in, with stickers, spray-paint stencils, and wheat-pasted posters.
  The assumed permanence of a print is in this context also eroded - the stencils are often painted over by concerned city councils within days and sometimes hours.
  I agree with your comments about the impact of television, but certainly there's still a place for the static graphic, whether it's a poster, or a stencil sprayed on a sidewalk.

verbstencilled, stencils, stencilling, stenciling, stenciled ˈstɛns(ə)lˈstɛnsəl

[with object]

1Decorate (a surface) with a stencil.
用模板印制的图案装饰
the walls had been stencilled with designs
墙壁是用模板印制的图案装饰的。
Example sentencesExamples
- The open-plan room, which has about 15 tables, is very fresh looking with light walls, stencilled with vines, dragonflies and balustrades.
- Continue building the design, adding stenciling with complementary paint colors.
- Using the graph paper, design your stenciled floor.
- The banks of the river were 20 feet tall and vertical and stenciled with numbers - mile markers painted by Los Angeles County, which now manages the channel along with the Corps.
- It was a beautiful room, with its chequerboard tiled floor and delicately stencilled creamy walls.
- But when he opened the door stenciled EMPLOYEES ONLY, no one was there.
- ‘Drink this,’ she said, handing me a dainty teacup stenciled with primroses filled with the substance she had just made.
- Eventually the money went for a program to stencil the drains to tell everyone not to pour motor oil into the sewers, and some home-improvement loans.
- Today, stenciling has become much more sophisticated, often involving intricate designs and any number of colors.
- Wash and dry the chosen fabrics to remove the sizing, and make sure any hard surfaces to be stenciled are clean and dry.
- If you don't have an embroidery machine, consider spelling out ‘Laundry’ with iron-on letters or stenciling.
- Bluff Point, Spalding and Sunset Beach residents will have noticed roadside drains in their suburbs have been stencilled with the slogan ‘Water To The River’.
- At Winscombe Hall, currently a residential home for the elderly, a bedroom, once wonderfully stencilled with Burges's elaborate gothic designs, is now a uniform cream.
- Unusual features in this room are the vaulted, Georgian beamed and stencilled ceiling and a rather ornate tiled fireplace.
- A white UN helicopter, stenciled with the blue symbol, buzzed to and fro.
- Set in the ceiling were small plaster panels with renditions of bookplates; the walls were stenciled with representations of bookbindings; and quotations about books embellished the broad wooden cornice.
- The stencil system includes a working area, at which the circuit boards are stenciled.
- Each panel is stenciled with a large date and a small text that provides an artist's name and the title of a work.
- Don't limit yourself to stenciling on a wall.
- The Shelburne Museum in Vermont, the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association in Deerfield, Massachusetts, and Old Sturbridge Village all have stenciled coverlets imitating the Whig Rose appliqué design.
1. 1.1 Produce (a design) with a stencil.
  用模板印刷（图案）
  stencil a border around the door
  用模板在门周边印一圈图案。
  Example sentencesExamples
  They stenciled the images onto various public places, like the telephone box pictured above.
  Last week, he stencilled nine images onto the Palestinian side of the West Bank barrier in Israel.
  Shapes are stencilled onto coloured papers to make cut-outs, and onto photos, for cropping them into interesting shapes.
  The name and registration number of the ship were stenciled near the nose, and a large, idealized picture of a flaming bird in dark reds and oranges wrapped around the forward fuselage.
  A very few quilts actually contain stenciled or embroidered designs along with the pieced or appliqué work.
  The dots in the background were stencilled in with each one being done by hand.
  You can even add a stenciled cut-out design around the edge of the box.
  Cover the albums with pretty fabric or lace and stencil the recipient's initials on the front to personalize it.
  She might be guilty of trying to make you stencil sunflowers onto your kitchen walls, but that is not a crime.
  I've never been arrested for stenciling political messages on footpaths.
  They had printed in white stenciled letters their message on the inside of the leaf… which is silly because leaves fall with the outside upwards, so all the messages were obscured but one.
  He had spent the day stenciling tiny Christmas trees along the border of the sign.
  But the chimney receives a fresh coat of beige paint each year with the name stenciled out in giant black letters.
  Labour has assiduously made capital from that little nugget ever since, even stencilling the phrase on its campaign cars to remind people.
  The words State 51 had been stencilled on the gate.
  The pair also stenciled a set of unsigned prose ‘poems’ on various walls throughout the exhibition.
  This guy spent three weeks with a pencil, stenciling a piece on the mural wall.
  The idea spread, and by now anonymous participants have stenciled the phrase in over 20 cities, he says.
  His words, in old-fashioned Ottoman Turkish, are stencilled on the wall.

Origin

Early 18th century: from earlier stansel 'ornament with various colours' (based on Latin scintilla 'spark').

Rhymes

intercensal, pencil

Definition of stencil in US English:

stencil

nounˈstɛnsəlˈstensəl

1A thin sheet of cardboard, 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.
（印刷图案或文字的）模板；（油印用的）蜡纸
Example sentencesExamples
- I would recommend looking at what ready-made stencils there are before deciding whether or not to use them.
- In subsequent works, he created permutating, off-centered grids with spray paint applied through stencils.
- Matt had made the design, a friend hit on the idea of using stencils and spray paint, and the crew started tagging.
- Use your own imagination or buy a ready-made stencil.
- Women purchased metal stencils with their names cut in, and used them for writing their names on household linens and clothing or other needlework and they also used them to sign their quilt blocks.
- Carefully remove the stencil and wipe off the excess wet paint with a rag.
- It just takes a little glass paint and a stencil or template.
- Many paint and craft stores sell pre-cut, reusable plastic stencils in a variety of patterns, such as leaves, ivy, flowers, etc.
- I cut out a paper stencil and sprayed through it onto the chairs.
- If stains are placed afterward, stencils should be left in place until after the staining process is complete.
- Allow to dry, then remove the stencil to reveal the picture.
- Simply place the stencil in the desired location on the wall and hold it in place with masking tape.
- Position the border and design stencils shiny-side-down on the fabric.
- I would take the time to make a good set of letter stencils out of transparency film and then use acrylic paint with textile medium to paint the shirts.
- Any idiot with spray paint and a stencil can put a name on a ship.
- Pencil on your design or alternatively use a stencil to trace the outline of your design.
- Lay a tablecloth on a flat surface and place the stencils, securing them with a bit of tape.
- Judging by the consistency of their designs, the quilts imitating fashionable appliquéd patterns may have been painted using professionally cut stencils, which were available after 1835.
- Paint the walls blue, and then paint grass growing above the baseboard, and use stencils and white paint for clouds.
- When painting with a stencil cut out use a short bristled brush and with a dabbing motion apply your paint.
Synonyms
model, example, criterion, standard, basis, point of reference, gauge, norm, formula, guide, scale, guideline, yardstick, touchstone, benchmark, ideal, exemplar, paradigm, canon
1. 1.1 A design produced by a stencil.
  （用模板或蜡纸印成的）图案
  a floral stencil around the top of the room
  房间顶部的花形图案。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Tactics these groups use include spray-painting stencils on pavements, altering billboards and displaying posters and stickers in public places.
  The resulting paintings based on the stencil were popular and sold well to tourists.
  The plates were placed on a roof with stencils covering the positive areas of the portrait.
  The walls were dark blue with painted star stencils all over the walls.
  Or use border tiles to define a panel or tiled splashback, and then echo the motif as a stencil along the bottom edge of your table linen or roller blinds.
  Recently, this has found me making stencils, which, like lithographs, are quick, effective, and actually available for masses of people to see.
  Smack dab in the middle of the canvas, an enormous silhouetted hen sits contentedly on her nest, framed by a field of radiant orange-on-orange floral stencils over a hot-pink background.
  The assumed permanence of a print is in this context also eroded - the stencils are often painted over by concerned city councils within days and sometimes hours.
  I agree with your comments about the impact of television, but certainly there's still a place for the static graphic, whether it's a poster, or a stencil sprayed on a sidewalk.
  Other campaigners spray painted carefully designed stencils on pavements.
  Some of them are shelters like this major one with drawings and stencils.
  He encouraged others to join in, with stickers, spray-paint stencils, and wheat-pasted posters.

verbˈstɛnsəlˈstensəl

[with object]

1Decorate (a surface) with a stencil.
用模板印制的图案装饰
the walls had been stenciled with designs
墙壁是用模板印制的图案装饰的。
Example sentencesExamples
- The open-plan room, which has about 15 tables, is very fresh looking with light walls, stencilled with vines, dragonflies and balustrades.
- But when he opened the door stenciled EMPLOYEES ONLY, no one was there.
- Don't limit yourself to stenciling on a wall.
- Today, stenciling has become much more sophisticated, often involving intricate designs and any number of colors.
- Continue building the design, adding stenciling with complementary paint colors.
- ‘Drink this,’ she said, handing me a dainty teacup stenciled with primroses filled with the substance she had just made.
- Each panel is stenciled with a large date and a small text that provides an artist's name and the title of a work.
- It was a beautiful room, with its chequerboard tiled floor and delicately stencilled creamy walls.
- The banks of the river were 20 feet tall and vertical and stenciled with numbers - mile markers painted by Los Angeles County, which now manages the channel along with the Corps.
- If you don't have an embroidery machine, consider spelling out ‘Laundry’ with iron-on letters or stenciling.
- The Shelburne Museum in Vermont, the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association in Deerfield, Massachusetts, and Old Sturbridge Village all have stenciled coverlets imitating the Whig Rose appliqué design.
- Wash and dry the chosen fabrics to remove the sizing, and make sure any hard surfaces to be stenciled are clean and dry.
- Bluff Point, Spalding and Sunset Beach residents will have noticed roadside drains in their suburbs have been stencilled with the slogan ‘Water To The River’.
- A white UN helicopter, stenciled with the blue symbol, buzzed to and fro.
- At Winscombe Hall, currently a residential home for the elderly, a bedroom, once wonderfully stencilled with Burges's elaborate gothic designs, is now a uniform cream.
- The stencil system includes a working area, at which the circuit boards are stenciled.
- Set in the ceiling were small plaster panels with renditions of bookplates; the walls were stenciled with representations of bookbindings; and quotations about books embellished the broad wooden cornice.
- Using the graph paper, design your stenciled floor.
- Unusual features in this room are the vaulted, Georgian beamed and stencilled ceiling and a rather ornate tiled fireplace.
- Eventually the money went for a program to stencil the drains to tell everyone not to pour motor oil into the sewers, and some home-improvement loans.
1. 1.1 Produce (a design) with a stencil.
  用模板印刷（图案）
  stencil a border around the door
  用模板在门周边印一圈图案。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Shapes are stencilled onto coloured papers to make cut-outs, and onto photos, for cropping them into interesting shapes.
  But the chimney receives a fresh coat of beige paint each year with the name stenciled out in giant black letters.
  His words, in old-fashioned Ottoman Turkish, are stencilled on the wall.
  The name and registration number of the ship were stenciled near the nose, and a large, idealized picture of a flaming bird in dark reds and oranges wrapped around the forward fuselage.
  The idea spread, and by now anonymous participants have stenciled the phrase in over 20 cities, he says.
  I've never been arrested for stenciling political messages on footpaths.
  They had printed in white stenciled letters their message on the inside of the leaf… which is silly because leaves fall with the outside upwards, so all the messages were obscured but one.
  A very few quilts actually contain stenciled or embroidered designs along with the pieced or appliqué work.
  The words State 51 had been stencilled on the gate.
  The dots in the background were stencilled in with each one being done by hand.
  He had spent the day stenciling tiny Christmas trees along the border of the sign.
  They stenciled the images onto various public places, like the telephone box pictured above.
  Last week, he stencilled nine images onto the Palestinian side of the West Bank barrier in Israel.
  She might be guilty of trying to make you stencil sunflowers onto your kitchen walls, but that is not a crime.
  The pair also stenciled a set of unsigned prose ‘poems’ on various walls throughout the exhibition.
  You can even add a stenciled cut-out design around the edge of the box.
  Labour has assiduously made capital from that little nugget ever since, even stencilling the phrase on its campaign cars to remind people.
  This guy spent three weeks with a pencil, stenciling a piece on the mural wall.
  Cover the albums with pretty fabric or lace and stencil the recipient's initials on the front to personalize it.

Origin

Early 18th century: from earlier stansel ‘ornament with various colors’ (based on Latin scintilla ‘spark’).

词汇	stencil
释义	Definition of stencil in English: stencil nounPlural stencils ˈstɛns(ə)lˈstɛnsəl 1A 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. （印刷图案或文字的）模板；（油印用的）蜡纸 as modifier stencil designs such as fruit Example sentencesExamples Position the border and design stencils shiny-side-down on the fabric. Simply place the stencil in the desired location on the wall and hold it in place with masking tape. It just takes a little glass paint and a stencil or template. Judging by the consistency of their designs, the quilts imitating fashionable appliquéd patterns may have been painted using professionally cut stencils, which were available after 1835. Pencil on your design or alternatively use a stencil to trace the outline of your design. Paint the walls blue, and then paint grass growing above the baseboard, and use stencils and white paint for clouds. Any idiot with spray paint and a stencil can put a name on a ship. When painting with a stencil cut out use a short bristled brush and with a dabbing motion apply your paint. Matt had made the design, a friend hit on the idea of using stencils and spray paint, and the crew started tagging. Allow to dry, then remove the stencil to reveal the picture. In subsequent works, he created permutating, off-centered grids with spray paint applied through stencils. Carefully remove the stencil and wipe off the excess wet paint with a rag. I would recommend looking at what ready-made stencils there are before deciding whether or not to use them. I would take the time to make a good set of letter stencils out of transparency film and then use acrylic paint with textile medium to paint the shirts. Many paint and craft stores sell pre-cut, reusable plastic stencils in a variety of patterns, such as leaves, ivy, flowers, etc. If stains are placed afterward, stencils should be left in place until after the staining process is complete. Use your own imagination or buy a ready-made stencil. Women purchased metal stencils with their names cut in, and used them for writing their names on household linens and clothing or other needlework and they also used them to sign their quilt blocks. I cut out a paper stencil and sprayed through it onto the chairs. Lay a tablecloth on a flat surface and place the stencils, securing them with a bit of tape. Synonyms model, example, criterion, standard, basis, point of reference, gauge, norm, formula, guide, scale, guideline, yardstick, touchstone, benchmark, ideal, exemplar, paradigm, canon 1.1 A design produced by a stencil. （用模板或蜡纸印成的）图案 a floral stencil around the top of the room 房间顶部的花形图案。 Example sentencesExamples The resulting paintings based on the stencil were popular and sold well to tourists. Or use border tiles to define a panel or tiled splashback, and then echo the motif as a stencil along the bottom edge of your table linen or roller blinds. The walls were dark blue with painted star stencils all over the walls. Some of them are shelters like this major one with drawings and stencils. The plates were placed on a roof with stencils covering the positive areas of the portrait. Recently, this has found me making stencils, which, like lithographs, are quick, effective, and actually available for masses of people to see. Other campaigners spray painted carefully designed stencils on pavements. Smack dab in the middle of the canvas, an enormous silhouetted hen sits contentedly on her nest, framed by a field of radiant orange-on-orange floral stencils over a hot-pink background. Tactics these groups use include spray-painting stencils on pavements, altering billboards and displaying posters and stickers in public places. He encouraged others to join in, with stickers, spray-paint stencils, and wheat-pasted posters. The assumed permanence of a print is in this context also eroded - the stencils are often painted over by concerned city councils within days and sometimes hours. I agree with your comments about the impact of television, but certainly there's still a place for the static graphic, whether it's a poster, or a stencil sprayed on a sidewalk. verbstencilled, stencils, stencilling, stenciling, stenciled ˈstɛns(ə)lˈstɛnsəl [with object] 1Decorate (a surface) with a stencil. 用模板印制的图案装饰 the walls had been stencilled with designs 墙壁是用模板印制的图案装饰的。 Example sentencesExamples The open-plan room, which has about 15 tables, is very fresh looking with light walls, stencilled with vines, dragonflies and balustrades. Continue building the design, adding stenciling with complementary paint colors. Using the graph paper, design your stenciled floor. The banks of the river were 20 feet tall and vertical and stenciled with numbers - mile markers painted by Los Angeles County, which now manages the channel along with the Corps. It was a beautiful room, with its chequerboard tiled floor and delicately stencilled creamy walls. But when he opened the door stenciled EMPLOYEES ONLY, no one was there. ‘Drink this,’ she said, handing me a dainty teacup stenciled with primroses filled with the substance she had just made. Eventually the money went for a program to stencil the drains to tell everyone not to pour motor oil into the sewers, and some home-improvement loans. Today, stenciling has become much more sophisticated, often involving intricate designs and any number of colors. Wash and dry the chosen fabrics to remove the sizing, and make sure any hard surfaces to be stenciled are clean and dry. If you don't have an embroidery machine, consider spelling out ‘Laundry’ with iron-on letters or stenciling. Bluff Point, Spalding and Sunset Beach residents will have noticed roadside drains in their suburbs have been stencilled with the slogan ‘Water To The River’. At Winscombe Hall, currently a residential home for the elderly, a bedroom, once wonderfully stencilled with Burges's elaborate gothic designs, is now a uniform cream. Unusual features in this room are the vaulted, Georgian beamed and stencilled ceiling and a rather ornate tiled fireplace. A white UN helicopter, stenciled with the blue symbol, buzzed to and fro. Set in the ceiling were small plaster panels with renditions of bookplates; the walls were stenciled with representations of bookbindings; and quotations about books embellished the broad wooden cornice. The stencil system includes a working area, at which the circuit boards are stenciled. Each panel is stenciled with a large date and a small text that provides an artist's name and the title of a work. Don't limit yourself to stenciling on a wall. The Shelburne Museum in Vermont, the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association in Deerfield, Massachusetts, and Old Sturbridge Village all have stenciled coverlets imitating the Whig Rose appliqué design. 1.1 Produce (a design) with a stencil. 用模板印刷（图案） stencil a border around the door 用模板在门周边印一圈图案。 Example sentencesExamples They stenciled the images onto various public places, like the telephone box pictured above. Last week, he stencilled nine images onto the Palestinian side of the West Bank barrier in Israel. Shapes are stencilled onto coloured papers to make cut-outs, and onto photos, for cropping them into interesting shapes. The name and registration number of the ship were stenciled near the nose, and a large, idealized picture of a flaming bird in dark reds and oranges wrapped around the forward fuselage. A very few quilts actually contain stenciled or embroidered designs along with the pieced or appliqué work. The dots in the background were stencilled in with each one being done by hand. You can even add a stenciled cut-out design around the edge of the box. Cover the albums with pretty fabric or lace and stencil the recipient's initials on the front to personalize it. She might be guilty of trying to make you stencil sunflowers onto your kitchen walls, but that is not a crime. I've never been arrested for stenciling political messages on footpaths. They had printed in white stenciled letters their message on the inside of the leaf… which is silly because leaves fall with the outside upwards, so all the messages were obscured but one. He had spent the day stenciling tiny Christmas trees along the border of the sign. But the chimney receives a fresh coat of beige paint each year with the name stenciled out in giant black letters. Labour has assiduously made capital from that little nugget ever since, even stencilling the phrase on its campaign cars to remind people. The words State 51 had been stencilled on the gate. The pair also stenciled a set of unsigned prose ‘poems’ on various walls throughout the exhibition. This guy spent three weeks with a pencil, stenciling a piece on the mural wall. The idea spread, and by now anonymous participants have stenciled the phrase in over 20 cities, he says. His words, in old-fashioned Ottoman Turkish, are stencilled on the wall. Origin Early 18th century: from earlier stansel 'ornament with various colours' (based on Latin scintilla 'spark'). Rhymes intercensal, pencil Definition of stencil in US English: stencil nounˈstɛnsəlˈstensəl 1A thin sheet of cardboard, 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. （印刷图案或文字的）模板；（油印用的）蜡纸 Example sentencesExamples I would recommend looking at what ready-made stencils there are before deciding whether or not to use them. In subsequent works, he created permutating, off-centered grids with spray paint applied through stencils. Matt had made the design, a friend hit on the idea of using stencils and spray paint, and the crew started tagging. Use your own imagination or buy a ready-made stencil. Women purchased metal stencils with their names cut in, and used them for writing their names on household linens and clothing or other needlework and they also used them to sign their quilt blocks. Carefully remove the stencil and wipe off the excess wet paint with a rag. It just takes a little glass paint and a stencil or template. Many paint and craft stores sell pre-cut, reusable plastic stencils in a variety of patterns, such as leaves, ivy, flowers, etc. I cut out a paper stencil and sprayed through it onto the chairs. If stains are placed afterward, stencils should be left in place until after the staining process is complete. Allow to dry, then remove the stencil to reveal the picture. Simply place the stencil in the desired location on the wall and hold it in place with masking tape. Position the border and design stencils shiny-side-down on the fabric. I would take the time to make a good set of letter stencils out of transparency film and then use acrylic paint with textile medium to paint the shirts. Any idiot with spray paint and a stencil can put a name on a ship. Pencil on your design or alternatively use a stencil to trace the outline of your design. Lay a tablecloth on a flat surface and place the stencils, securing them with a bit of tape. Judging by the consistency of their designs, the quilts imitating fashionable appliquéd patterns may have been painted using professionally cut stencils, which were available after 1835. Paint the walls blue, and then paint grass growing above the baseboard, and use stencils and white paint for clouds. When painting with a stencil cut out use a short bristled brush and with a dabbing motion apply your paint. Synonyms model, example, criterion, standard, basis, point of reference, gauge, norm, formula, guide, scale, guideline, yardstick, touchstone, benchmark, ideal, exemplar, paradigm, canon 1.1 A design produced by a stencil. （用模板或蜡纸印成的）图案 a floral stencil around the top of the room 房间顶部的花形图案。 Example sentencesExamples Tactics these groups use include spray-painting stencils on pavements, altering billboards and displaying posters and stickers in public places. The resulting paintings based on the stencil were popular and sold well to tourists. The plates were placed on a roof with stencils covering the positive areas of the portrait. The walls were dark blue with painted star stencils all over the walls. Or use border tiles to define a panel or tiled splashback, and then echo the motif as a stencil along the bottom edge of your table linen or roller blinds. Recently, this has found me making stencils, which, like lithographs, are quick, effective, and actually available for masses of people to see. Smack dab in the middle of the canvas, an enormous silhouetted hen sits contentedly on her nest, framed by a field of radiant orange-on-orange floral stencils over a hot-pink background. The assumed permanence of a print is in this context also eroded - the stencils are often painted over by concerned city councils within days and sometimes hours. I agree with your comments about the impact of television, but certainly there's still a place for the static graphic, whether it's a poster, or a stencil sprayed on a sidewalk. Other campaigners spray painted carefully designed stencils on pavements. Some of them are shelters like this major one with drawings and stencils. He encouraged others to join in, with stickers, spray-paint stencils, and wheat-pasted posters. verbˈstɛnsəlˈstensəl [with object] 1Decorate (a surface) with a stencil. 用模板印制的图案装饰 the walls had been stenciled with designs 墙壁是用模板印制的图案装饰的。 Example sentencesExamples The open-plan room, which has about 15 tables, is very fresh looking with light walls, stencilled with vines, dragonflies and balustrades. But when he opened the door stenciled EMPLOYEES ONLY, no one was there. Don't limit yourself to stenciling on a wall. Today, stenciling has become much more sophisticated, often involving intricate designs and any number of colors. Continue building the design, adding stenciling with complementary paint colors. ‘Drink this,’ she said, handing me a dainty teacup stenciled with primroses filled with the substance she had just made. Each panel is stenciled with a large date and a small text that provides an artist's name and the title of a work. It was a beautiful room, with its chequerboard tiled floor and delicately stencilled creamy walls. The banks of the river were 20 feet tall and vertical and stenciled with numbers - mile markers painted by Los Angeles County, which now manages the channel along with the Corps. If you don't have an embroidery machine, consider spelling out ‘Laundry’ with iron-on letters or stenciling. The Shelburne Museum in Vermont, the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association in Deerfield, Massachusetts, and Old Sturbridge Village all have stenciled coverlets imitating the Whig Rose appliqué design. Wash and dry the chosen fabrics to remove the sizing, and make sure any hard surfaces to be stenciled are clean and dry. Bluff Point, Spalding and Sunset Beach residents will have noticed roadside drains in their suburbs have been stencilled with the slogan ‘Water To The River’. A white UN helicopter, stenciled with the blue symbol, buzzed to and fro. At Winscombe Hall, currently a residential home for the elderly, a bedroom, once wonderfully stencilled with Burges's elaborate gothic designs, is now a uniform cream. The stencil system includes a working area, at which the circuit boards are stenciled. Set in the ceiling were small plaster panels with renditions of bookplates; the walls were stenciled with representations of bookbindings; and quotations about books embellished the broad wooden cornice. Using the graph paper, design your stenciled floor. Unusual features in this room are the vaulted, Georgian beamed and stencilled ceiling and a rather ornate tiled fireplace. Eventually the money went for a program to stencil the drains to tell everyone not to pour motor oil into the sewers, and some home-improvement loans. 1.1 Produce (a design) with a stencil. 用模板印刷（图案） stencil a border around the door 用模板在门周边印一圈图案。 Example sentencesExamples Shapes are stencilled onto coloured papers to make cut-outs, and onto photos, for cropping them into interesting shapes. But the chimney receives a fresh coat of beige paint each year with the name stenciled out in giant black letters. His words, in old-fashioned Ottoman Turkish, are stencilled on the wall. The name and registration number of the ship were stenciled near the nose, and a large, idealized picture of a flaming bird in dark reds and oranges wrapped around the forward fuselage. The idea spread, and by now anonymous participants have stenciled the phrase in over 20 cities, he says. I've never been arrested for stenciling political messages on footpaths. They had printed in white stenciled letters their message on the inside of the leaf… which is silly because leaves fall with the outside upwards, so all the messages were obscured but one. A very few quilts actually contain stenciled or embroidered designs along with the pieced or appliqué work. The words State 51 had been stencilled on the gate. The dots in the background were stencilled in with each one being done by hand. He had spent the day stenciling tiny Christmas trees along the border of the sign. They stenciled the images onto various public places, like the telephone box pictured above. Last week, he stencilled nine images onto the Palestinian side of the West Bank barrier in Israel. She might be guilty of trying to make you stencil sunflowers onto your kitchen walls, but that is not a crime. The pair also stenciled a set of unsigned prose ‘poems’ on various walls throughout the exhibition. You can even add a stenciled cut-out design around the edge of the box. Labour has assiduously made capital from that little nugget ever since, even stencilling the phrase on its campaign cars to remind people. This guy spent three weeks with a pencil, stenciling a piece on the mural wall. Cover the albums with pretty fabric or lace and stencil the recipient's initials on the front to personalize it. Origin Early 18th century: from earlier stansel ‘ornament with various colors’ (based on Latin scintilla ‘spark’).
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