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# crayon

«crayon» in Mova's school dictionary: **a stick of coloured wax for drawing and colouring** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (crayon, crayons); verb (crayon, crayoned)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A crayon is a stick of coloured wax for drawing and colouring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crayon/#m1)

2) To crayon is to draw or colour with crayons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crayon/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a thing counted, often in boxes, lost or given away; «boxes of 8» means multiply; in art class children draw with crayons; phrases: «a box of crayons», «wax crayon», «colour with crayons»

### examples

- Paul had 110 crayons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crayon/#x1)
- He gave 90 crayons to his friends. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crayon/#x2)
- He lost 12 crayons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crayon/#x3)
- Each box has 8 crayons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crayon/#x4)
- I coloured the sun with a yellow crayon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crayon/#x5)
- Crayons melt if you leave them in the sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crayon/#x6)
- Share the crayons with your table. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crayon/#x7)
- My little sister drew on the wall with a crayon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crayon/#x8)

### note

Countable: a crayon, crayons. A thing counted. «lost», «gave away» take away; «boxes of 8» means multiply. Trap: «how many more crayons did he lose than give away» compares the two changes.

### In the corpora

- [A girl who wouldn't share her crayons felt mean when her neighbour's grey picture went up on the wall.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/347-leaving-someone-out/26/)
- [une trousse ("TROOSS") is a pencil case; inside you might find a taille-crayon (a sharpener).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/20-in-the-classroom/16/)
- [He has 5 boxes of 8 crayons and gives away 12 crayons.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/118-distracting-number/3/)
- [How many crayons are left?» His age does not matter.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/118-distracting-number/4/)
- [Step one: 5 × 8 = 40 crayons.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/118-distracting-number/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «crayon» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crayon/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.