Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fenced enclosure for animals.
- noun The animals kept in such an enclosure.
- noun Any of various enclosures, such as a bullpen or playpen, used for a variety of purposes.
- noun A repair dock for submarines.
- transitive verb To confine in or as if in a pen. synonym: enclose.
- noun A female swan.
- noun A penitentiary; a prison.
- noun An instrument for writing or drawing with ink or similar fluid, especially.
- noun A ballpoint pen.
- noun A fountain pen.
- noun A pen point.
- noun A penholder and its pen point.
- noun A quill.
- noun An instrument for writing regarded as a means of expression.
- noun A writer or an author.
- noun A style of writing.
- noun Archaic Pinions.
- noun The chitinous internal shell of a squid.
- noun A pen shell.
- transitive verb To write or compose.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A feather, especially a large feather, of the wing or tail; a quill.
- noun A quill, as of a goose or other large bird, cut to a point and split at the nib, used for writing; now, by extension, any instrument (usually of steel, gold, or other metal) of similar form, used for writing by means of a fluid ink.
- noun One who uses a pen; a writer; a penman.
- noun Style or quality of writing.
- noun 5. A pipe; a conduit.
- noun A female swan, the male being called a cob. Yarrell, British Birds.
- noun In Cephalopoda, an internal homogeneous corneous or chitinous structure replacing the internal shell in certain decacerous cephalopods, such as the typical squids (Loliginidæ): also called
gladius and calamary: distinguished from the corresponding sepiost or cuttlebone of the cuttles. See cut undercalamary . - noun A pen or pencil used to record the various degrees of pressure employed in writing. A metal spring, which holds the writing point of metal or graphite, plays against a rubber air-capsule contained in the penholder and connected by rubber tubing to the ordinary recording apparatus.
- noun An abbreviation of
peninsula . - To shut, inclose, or confine in or as in a pen or other narrow place; hem in; coop up; confine or restrain within very narrow limits: frequently with up.
- noun A small inclosure, as for cows, sheep, fowls, etc.; a fold; a sty; a coop.
- noun Any inclousure resembling a fold or pen for animals.
- noun In the fisheries, a movable receptacle on board ship where fish are put to be iced, etc.
- noun A small country house in the mountains of Jamaica.
- noun A weir or dam for penning up the water in a stream, canal, or river of any kind, to form a head.
- To write; compose and commit to paper.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A feather.
- noun obsolete A wing.
- noun An instrument used for writing with ink, formerly made of a reed, or of the quill of a goose or other bird, but now also of other materials, as of steel, gold, etc. Also, originally, a stylus or other instrument for scratching or graving.
- noun Fig.: A writer, or his style.
- noun (Zoöl.) The internal shell of a squid.
- noun (Zoöl.), Prov. Eng. A female swan; -- contrasted with
cob , the male swan. - noun See
Bow-pen . - noun a pen for drawing dotted lines.
- noun a pen for ruling lines having a pair of blades between which the ink is contained.
- noun See under
Fountain , andGeometric . - noun a pen having five points for drawing the five lines of the staff.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Perry was certainly not the first maker of steel pens, but I have no doubt that he was the first steel _slip pen_ maker, and no doubt the first to use a _goose quill_ for a pen holder, hence the slip pen.
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The Preppy fountain pen is a medium-sized, clear plastic barrel (which I like to see the amount of ink used) and come color-coded in seven different colors – cap and stainless steel nib dyed to match the ink.
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But learning to write with a fountain pen is a worthy investment, I have yet to look back. jeejum stennieville
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As a last resort, he took the empty fountain pen from the bag and looking straight up at the brilliant stillness of the heavens he connected a handful of the dots, creating the figure of a goat, the very thinnest moon imaginable lodged tightly in its stomach.
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As a last resort, he took the empty fountain pen from the bag and looking straight up at the brilliant stillness of the heavens he connected a handful of the dots, creating the figure of a goat, the very thinnest moon imaginable lodged tightly in its stomach.
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While he memorised the positions of the men, the table and the box, he slipped what looked like an ordinary fountain pen from the pocket of his dark suit.
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Anyone who is heard using the word frindle instead of the word pen will stay after school and write this sentence one hundred times: I am writing this punishment with a pen.
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It started to become our word pen because quills made from feathers were some of the first writing tools ever made.
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WITHIN A WEEK after the article was published in The Westfield Gazette, the kids at the junior high and the kids at the high school had stopped using the word pen and had started using the word frindle.
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But I guess that if the Latin word for feather had been frindilus instead of pinna, then you probably would have invented the word pen instead.
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