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pen
1[ pen ]
noun
- any of various instruments for writing or drawing with ink or a similar substance.
- a detachable metal penpoint, filled by dipping or with a quill; nib.
- such a penpoint with its penholder.
- the pen as the instrument of writing or authorship:
The pen is mightier than the sword.
- a person's style or quality of writing:
He writes with a witty, incisive pen.
- a writer:
I leave this story to abler pens.
- the profession of writing:
a master of the pen.
- a pen-shaped device having a cartridge filled with a drug or medication:
an insulin pen with disposable needles.
- Computers. stylus ( def 3 ).
- Ornithology.
- a quill.
- a pinfeather.
- something resembling or suggesting a feather or quill.
- Zoology. an internal, corneous or chitinous, feather-shaped structure in certain cephalopods, as the squid.
verb (used with object)
- to write with or as with a pen; put down in writing:
to pen an essay.
- to draw with or as with a pen:
to pen a sketch.
pen
2[ pen ]
noun
- a small enclosure for domestic animals.
- animals so enclosed:
We have a pen of twenty sheep.
- an enclosure used for confinement or safekeeping:
We have built several pens to hold our harvest of corn.
- a dock having a protective concrete structure overhead, used to service and repair submarines.
verb (used with object)
- to confine in or as in a pen.
pen
3[ pen ]
noun
pen
4[ pen ]
noun
- a female swan.
pen-
5- variant of pene- before a vowel:
penannular.
Pen.
6abbreviation for
- peninsula.
P.E.N.
7abbreviation for
- International Association of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists, and Novelists.
PEN
1/ pɛn /
acronym for
- International Association of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists, and Novelists
Pen.
2abbreviation for
- Peninsula
pen
3/ pɛn /
noun
- a female swan
pen
4/ pɛn /
noun
- informal.short for penitentiary
pen
5/ pɛn /
noun
- an enclosure in which domestic animals are kept
sheep pen
- any place of confinement
- a dock for servicing submarines, esp one having a bombproof roof
verb
- tr to enclose or keep in a pen
pen
6/ pɛn /
noun
- an implement for writing or drawing using ink, formerly consisting of a sharpened and split quill, and now of a metal nib attached to a holder See also ballpoint fountain pen
- the writing end of such an implement; nib
- style of writing
- the pen
- writing as an occupation
- the written word
the pen is mightier than the sword
- the long horny internal shell of a squid
verb
- tr to write or compose
Other Words From
- pen·like adjective
- pen·ner noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of pen1
Origin of pen2
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Origin of pen4
Word History and Origins
Origin of pen1
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Idioms and Phrases
see slip of the lip (pen) .Example Sentences
According to one Sir Keir ally: "The Treasury has had the pen and the meetings and the numbers, then No 10 gets involved for the political risk at the end."
It was an old fashioned pen and paper reporting job.
He won a MacArthur genius grant in the process and penned the book “A New Philosophy of Opera,” which detailed a thriving future for the changing genre.
There are also more than 158,000 people currently in federal prison, many for nonviolent drug offenses, all of whom are eligible to be freed by the stroke of a pen.
A white paper penned by his lawyers and circulated over the long Thanksgiving weekend outlined the risks and the grave threats he faced.
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