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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Crayon \Cray"on\ (kr?"?n), n. [F., a crayon, a lead pencil (crayon Cont['e] Cont['e]'s pencil, i. e., one made a black compound invented by Cont['e]), fr craie chalk, L. creta; said to be properly, Cretan earth, fr Creta the island Crete. Cf {Cretaceous}.] 1. An implement for drawing, made of clay and plumbago, or of some preparation of chalk, usually sold in small prisms or cylinders. Let no day pass over you . . . without giving some strokes of the pencil or the crayon. --Dryden. Note: The black crayon gives a deeper black than the lead pencil. This and the colored crayons are often called chalks. The red crayon is also called sanguine. See {Chalk}, and {Sanguine}. 2. A crayon drawing. 3. (Electricity) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light. {Crayon board}, cardboard with a surface prepared for crayon drawing. {Crayon drawing}, the act or art of drawing with crayons; a drawing made with crayons. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Crayon \Cray"on\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crayoned} (-?nd); p. pr & vb n. {Crayoning}.] [Cf. F. crayonner.] To sketch, as with a crayon; to sketch or plan He soon afterwards composed that discourse, conformably to the plan which he had crayoned out --Malone. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: crayon n : a colored stick of composition wax used for writing and drawing [syn: {wax crayon}] v : write, draw, or trace with a crayon From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: crayon n. 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. Formerly, anyone who worked for Cray Research; since the buyout by SGI, anyone they inherited from Cray. Nowadays, often applied to any SGI employee who either works at one of the former Cray Research facilities (i.e. Eagan Minnesota and Chippewa Falls Wisconsin) or works primarily in vector computing aspects of the business. Sometimes onsidered mildly offensive by those to whom it is applied, particularly those whose work has nothing to do with vector computing. 3. A {computron} (sense 2) that participates only in {number-crunching}. 4. 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. From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: crayon 1. Someone who works on {Cray} {supercomputer}s. 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. [{Jargon File}] (1994-10-13)
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