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BLUE PENCIL

Specialty Definition: BLUE PENCIL

DomainDefinition

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.

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Crosswords: BLUE PENCIL

Specialty definitions using "BLUE PENCIL": Line Item Veto. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BLUE PENCIL

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

blue pencil

4

blue pencil red

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: BLUE PENCIL

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

   

Portuguese

  

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)

   

Russian 

  

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)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

plava olovka. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

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)

   

Swedish

  

blåpenna, stryka ut (black out, blot, cross off, cross out, iron out, obliterate, scratch out, strike off). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

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)

   

Ukrainian

  

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: BLUE PENCIL

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
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