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- A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.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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Examples of "pen" in Sentences
- A ballpoint pen was not used.
- The proctor hands out papers and pens.
- Betty uses pen and ink to draw a machine.
- The pen and paper on the table signify the rule of law.
- The red pen is for the query and the blue pen is for nothing.
- She drew suggestive pen and ink views of the interior of the cript.
- Did you know that people used to write with plume just like an ink pen
- The other end of the holder is connected to an ink reservoir of the pen.
- This eliminates the need to grip the pen and push the tip into the paper.
- The dictation began, but in the rush of writing Ganesha's feather pen broke.
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