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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.

fountain pen.

ball-point pen.

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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.

10.

stylus (def. 3).

11.

Ornithology.

a quill.

a pinfeather.

12.

something resembling or suggesting a feather or quill.

13.

Zoology. an internal, corneous or chitinous, feather-shaped structure in certain cephalopods, as the squid.

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verb (used with object)

14.

to write with or as with a pen; put down in writing: to pen an essay.

15.

to draw with or as with a pen: to pen a sketch.

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to introduce subtleties into or argue subtly about.

to bark; yelp.

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Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English penne < Old French penne pen, feather < Late Latin penna, Latin: feather

Related forms

pen·like, adjective

pen·ner, noun

Example Sentences

No bulky program, no pen and notepad, no hardcopy of my presentations.

Little wonder, then, that when he did pick up pen or.

These new pen pals are eager to learn about life in the students' country.

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No bulky program, no pen and notepad, no hardcopy of my presentations.

Little wonder, then, that when he did pick up pen or.

These new pen pals are eager to learn about life in the students' country.

They there the size of a pen and had a charged wire, a needle and a lens.

More often than not, pen and ink dinosaurs threaten to stomp and chomp unlucky.

Dog gates could work, but they get pricey when you buy enough to make a decent-size pen.

Kryptonite's near-indestructible bike locks can be opened in seconds with a cheap plastic pen.

Sit them down, give them a piece of paper and a pen and an hour in a room and see what they come up with.

Its fans hope protocol will not cloak his powerful intellect and sharp pen.

In periods of inactivity, the pen draws straight lines with.

In our net pens, the fish only take up three per cent of the pen volume.

What it is is an accessory thatwill make the pen or stylus you already own a lot easier to use.

The modern day equivalent of a pen pal but with college credit.

He urged citizens who wanted to be on the safe side to use pen and paper in dealings with the state.

At night they pen their animals in stone corrals to shelter them from marauding mountain lions.

Note the one on the right disguised as a fountain pen.

If you think all things digital are magic, there's now a digital pen gadget that might easily impress you.

With a pen stylus, students are able to highlight text and make annotations as they read.

The new corporate leaders will no longer be pen pushers and bean counters.

Contact the school and request a pen pal who is approximately your age.

The pen in my hand seems to be in direct contact with my brain or thoughts.

It was a pen with erasable ink, and existed mainly to scare people who wrote a lot of.

Use of a big highlighting pen and a little caffeine is advised.

Authors and artists do not generally consult the statute books before deciding whether or not to pick up pen or paintbrush.

Learn as much as you can about the place your pen pal lives.

Us pen wielding world changers all wish for the same thing:.

Inkling consists of a special ink pen and a detector device which digitizes anything.

Fingernail polish remover will clear off old marking pen marks.

Such length, one scientist said, could only have been achieved in a pen.

Wearing a brown cotton gown, he sat beneath acacia and zizyphus trees that shaded a pen holding guinea fowl.

One of the delights of writing in pen is that you can write.

I've never been a fast writer, needing to think for long periods before putting pen to paper.

After everybody lit up, the young man reached into his shoulder bag for a pen and a scrap of paper.

Barnett takes my opinions on the subject matter under her pen.

And in much of the world, the generic name for a ballpoint pen is biro.

Many of the graceful strokes from the master's pen have left the letter full of tiny slashes.

One of the delights of writing in pen is that you can write continuously.

They also found the skeleton of an abandoned dog, plus nine pregnant goats still in their pen.

One of the delights of writing in pen is that you can write continuously without having to stop to sharpen your stylus.

Outside the house there's a sheep and goat pen whose four-foot-tall walls are made of camel dung wetted and pressed into bricks.

Take the pen that floats, weightless, before being plucked from the air by a space stewardess.

So, they keep the puppies and the goats in the same pen.

Inkling consists of a special ink pen and a detector device which digitizes.

The spiral-shaped pen refill carries twice as much ink as a regular refill.

Fourth and fifth graders in the school were partnered with adults who had no connection to the school, basically as pen pals.

He grabs a pen and paper and sketches a rough cube with two cats.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

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.

playpen.

bull pen.

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a dock having a protective concrete structure overhead, used to service and repair submarines.

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verb (used with object)

to confine in or as in a pen.

Origin:
before 1000; (noun) Middle English penne, Old English penn (in compounds); perhaps akin to pin; (v.) Middle English pennen, derivative of the noun

noun Slang.

penitentiary (def. 1).

Origin:
1880–85; Americanism; shortened form

noun

a female swan.

Origin:
1540–50; origin uncertain

variant of pene- before a vowel: penannular.

peninsula.

Also, pen.

International Association of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists, and Novelists.

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World English Dictionary

pen¹ (pɛn)

—n
1.	ballpoint See also fountain pen 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
2.	the writing end of such an implement; nib
3.	style of writing
4.	the pen
	a. writing as an occupation
	b. the written word: the pen is mightier than the sword
5.	the long horny internal shell of a squid

—vb , pens, penning, penned
6.	(tr) to write or compose

[Old English pinne, from Late Latin penna (quill) pen, from Latin: feather]

pen² (pɛn)

—n
1.	an enclosure in which domestic animals are kept: sheep pen
2.	any place of confinement
3.	a dock for servicing submarines, esp one having a bombproof roof

—vb , pens, penning, penned, pent
4.	(tr) to enclose or keep in a pen

[Old English penn, perhaps related to pin]

pen³ (pɛn)

—n
	informal (US), (Canadian) short for penitentiary

pen⁴ (pɛn)

—n
	a female swan

[C16: of unknown origin]

PEN (pɛn)

—*n acronym for*
	International Association of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists, and Novelists

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Word Origin & History

pen

"writing implement," c.1300, from O.Fr. penne "quill pen, feather," from L. penna "feather," from PIE *petna-, suffixed form of base *pet- "to rush, fly" (see petition). From the same base comes suffixed form *petra-, source of Skt. patram "wing, feather," Gk. pteron "wing,"

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O.C.S. pero "pen," O.N. fjöðr, O.E. feðer (see feather). In later Fr., this word means only "long feather of a bird," while the equivalent of Eng. plume is used for "writing implement," the senses of the two words thus reversed from what they are in English. The verb is 1490, from the noun. Pen-pal first recorded 1938, gradually replacing earlier pen-friend (1933). Pen-and-ink (adj.) is attested from 1676.

pen

"enclosure for animals," O.E. penn, penne, "enclosure," perhaps related to O.E. pinn "pin, peg" (see pin) on notion of a bolted gate or else "structure made of pointed stakes." The verb, "to enclose in a pen" is attested from c.1200. Slang noun meaning "prison" (1884) is shortening

of penitentiary (q.v.), but earlier use (1845) is probably a fig. extension of this word.

pen-

Brythonic for "head;" common in place names in Cornwall and Wales (e.g. Penzance, see also Pendragon).

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Slang Dictionary

pen definition

n.
a penitentiary; prison. (Underworld.) : Bart got sent to the pen for fifteen years.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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Abbreviations & Acronyms

pen
penitentiary

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