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| Domain | Definition |
Law | (Line Item Veto) The Constitution grants the Governor "line item veto" authority to reduce or eliminate any item of appropriation from any bill including the budget bill. Thirty years ago the Governor used an editor's blue pencil for the task. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: BLUE PENCIL |
| Specialty definitions using "BLUE PENCIL": Line Item Veto. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
blue pencil | 4 |
blue pencil red | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BLUE PENCIL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | korrigjoj (correct, emend, make amends, re establish, readjust, rearrange, reclaim, rectify, red pencil, reform, repair, retouch, retrieve, straighten, vet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نقح (emend, expurgate, file, rectify, refine, retouch, revise, touch up), عدل (adjust, alter, amend, arrange, commute, equal, equate, erect, evenness, fairness, fashion, fix, justice, justness, mend, modify, modulate, overhaul, qualify, reason, recast, reclaim, rectify, redress, regulate, remodel, reshuffle, retrofit, revise, right, righteousness, rightness, shuffle, straighten, temper), راقب (case, close, control, keep an eye on, look, look after, look on, mind, monitor, observe, overlook, oversee, proctor, spy, stake, superintend, supervise, tend, watch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | цензурирам (castrate, censor, red pencil), поправям (adjust, alter, amend, castigate, cobble, correct, do up, doctor, emend, fix, fix up, mend, polish, recast, recondition, rectify, redeem, redress, remedy, renovate, repair, retouch, retrieve, revamp, revise, service, true, vamp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | modré pero. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | overstrege (cross out, to blue pencil, use the blue pencil), gennemstrege (cross out, delete, strike out, to blue pencil, use the blue pencil). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | doorhalen (cross out, strike out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | surveiller, modifier, censurer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | korrigieren (adjust, alter, change, correct, emend, grade, Mark, pick up, pull up, readjust, rectify, to correct, to emend), ausstreichen (cancel, cross out, delete, efface, expunge, grease, obliterate, score off, score out, score through, scratch out, smooth out, smooth over, spread out, strike out, to scratch out, to strike out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לצ זר (censor), צ זור" (censorship). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | töröl (cancel, cross off, delete, scratch off, scratch out, to annul, to delete, to efface, to erase, to flannel, to scratch, to scrub, wipe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | revisionare (overhaul, recondition, service). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ueblay encilpay cortar (bite, chaff, chip, chop, clip, crop, curtail, cut, cut down, delete, detruncate, fell, gash, gouge, hack, hackle, hand back, hew, hew down, incise, indent, interrupt, intersect, let by, log, lop, lumber, mow, poll, pollard, sever, shave, shear, shut off, slice, slit, strike off, strike out, whittle). (various references) сокращать (abbreviate, abridge, blue-pencil, condense, constrict, contract, curtail, cut, cut back, divide out, dock, epitomize, pare, pare away, razee, reduce, shorten, shortens), редактировать (blue-pencil, edit, red pencil, redact). (various references) plava olovka. (various references) tachar algo (blot out, cut out, impeach, mark off, strike through), corregir (adjust, ameliorate, amend, correct, edit, emend, impove, improve, proof, proofread, revise, right, sub-edit), censurar (animadvert, blame, censor, censure, condemn, criticize, decry, deprecate, dispraise, impeach, rebuke, reproach, reprove, scold, take up, talk down, talk out, talk through, view). (various references) blåpenna, stryka ut (black out, blot, cross off, cross out, iron out, obliterate, scratch out, strike off). (various references) sansürlemek (censor), sansür (censorship, expurgation, news blackout), kaldırmak (abolish, arouse, blank out, boost, Brook, cancel, carry, clear, clear away, deration, do away with, elevate, erect, get up, give smb. a lift, heave, heft, hoist, hold, hold up, Jack, jack up, lift, lift up, move away, perk, perk up, pick off, pick up, poise, pull up, put aside, put away, put by, put up, quash, raise, reap, rear, receive, remove, scoop up, setaside, take off, take up, turn up, upheave, uphold, upraise). (various references) скорочувати (abate, abbreviate, abridge, ax, axe, boil down, cancel, castrate, curtail, cut, lop away, lop off, prune, retrench, shorten, shrink), редагувати (edit, redact), викреслювати (black out, blot out, cancel, cross off, cross out, delete, efface, elide, erase, expunge, line out, obliterate, rase, raze, score out, scratch off, scratch out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-e-e-i-l-l-n-p-u" | |
-2 letters: blueline, pulicene. | |
-3 letters: bullpen, eupneic, leucine, nucelli. | |
-4 letters: leucin, lineup, lupine, nebule, nellie, nubile, nuclei, pencel, pencil, penile, pilule, public, unclip, unpile. | |
-5 letters: belie, belle, bleep, celeb, celli, clepe, cline, cupel, leben, libel, lupin, niece, pence, picul, piece, plebe, pubic, uncle. | |
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