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  • A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.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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