pen
IPA: pˈɛn
noun
- An enclosure (enclosed area) used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
- (slang) Penitentiary, i.e. a state or federal prison for convicted felons.
- (baseball) The bullpen.
- A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.
- (figurative) A writer, or their style.
- (colloquial) Marks of ink left by a pen.
- A light pen.
- (zoology) The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.
- (now rare, poetic, dialectal) A feather, especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc.
- (poetic) A wing.
- A syringe-like device for injecting a dose of medication such as insulin or epinephrine. (See Injector pen.)
- A female swan.
- (soccer, slang) Penalty.
- A diminutive of the female given name Penelope
- The 68th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
- Short for vapor pen (“electronic cigarette”). [An electronic cigarette, especially when used to deliver a dose of a drug other than nicotine.]
- (organic chemistry) Abbreviation of polyethylene naphthalate.
- (speed skating) Abbreviation of penalty. (a scorecard score when a skater is penalized out of their skate) [A legal sentence.]
verb
- (transitive) To enclose in a pen.
- (transitive) To write (an article, a book, etc.).
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