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pen

noun
/ˈpɛn/

Etymology

From Middle English penne, from Anglo-Norman penne, from Old French penne, from Latin penna (“feather”), from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ ~ pth₂én- (“feather, wing”), from *peth₂- (“to rush, fly”, whence petition), root of *petra-, whence Ancient Greek πτερόν (pterón, “wing”, whence pterodactyl), and also of Sanskrit पत्रम् (patram, “wing, feather”), Old Church Slavonic перо (pero, “pen”), Old Norse fjǫðr, Old English feþer, feðer (Modern English feather); note the /p/ → /f/ Germanic sound change. Doublet of panne, penna, and pinna. See feather and πέτομαι (pétomai) for more.

  1. derived from *péth₂r̥✻ — “feather, wing”
  2. derived from penna — “feather”
  3. derived from penne
  4. derived from penne
  5. inherited from penne

Definitions

  1. An enclosure (enclosed area) used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or…

    An enclosure (enclosed area) used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.

    • There are two steers in the third pen.

  2. A penitentiary, i.e. a state or federal prison for convicted felons.

    • They caught him with a stolen horse, and he wound up in the pen again.

  3. The bullpen.

    • Two righties are up in the pen.
  4. ›+ 19 more definitions

    1. To enclose in a pen.

      • Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve.

    2. A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument,…

      A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.

      • He took notes with a pen.
      • another novel from the pen of everybody's fave thriller writer.
      • Please use a pen, not a pencil, when filling out this form. Use black or blue ink only.

    3. A writer, or their style.

      • He has a sharp pen.
      • those learned pens

    4. Marks of ink left by a pen.

      • He's unhappy because he got pen on his new shirt.

    5. A light pen.

    6. The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.

      • A pen is nothing more complex than a decalcified shell, so one mutation of the genes that controlled calcification could be all it took.

    7. A feather, especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc.

      • And eke the pennes, that did his pineons bynd, Were like mayne-yards, with flying canuas lynd, With which whenas him liſt the ayre to beat […]

    8. A wing.

      • but feather'd soon and fledge They summed their pens, and soaring the air sublime

    9. A syringe-like device for injecting a dose of medication such as insulin or epinephrine.…

      A syringe-like device for injecting a dose of medication such as insulin or epinephrine. (See Injector pen.)

    10. Ellipsis of vapor pen (“electronic cigarette”).

      • a dab pen; a wax pen

    11. To write (an article, a book, etc.).

      • It was in this era, too, that author and Scotland the Brave songwriter Cliff Hanley penned The Glasgow Underground, a tongue-in-cheek love letter to the Subway in song.

    12. A female swan.

    13. Penalty.

      • England won 3-1 on pens.

    14. Penetration.

    15. plural of pan

    16. Abbreviation of polyethylene naphthalate.

    17. Abbreviation of penalty (a scorecard score when a skater is penalized out of their skate).

    18. A diminutive of the female given name Penelope.

      • "Listen, Pen. We are here for the duration. You have to let her in a bit."

    19. The 68th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.

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Derived

blast pen, bullpen, cattle pen, cowpen, crush pen, henpen, hogpen, impen, penkeeper, penkeeping, Pen Mill, pennage, pentrough, pigpen, playpen, potato pen, shuck pen, unpen, goose-pen, 3D pen, ball pen, ball-point pen, beard pen, border pen, bow pen, brush pen, bull pen, cartridge pen, conductive pen, dab pen, dip one's pen in someone's inkwell, dip pen, don't dip your pen in company ink, electric pen, EpiPen, eraser pen, feather pen, felt pen, felt-tipped pen, felt-tip pen · +102 more

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pen. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA