Pen

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  • noun. undefined
  • 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. Pinions.
  • noun. The chitinous internal shell of a squid.
  • noun. A pen shell.
  • transitive verb. To write or compose.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • To write; compose and commit to paper.
  • 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 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. A weir or dam for penning up the water in a stream, canal, or river of any kind, to form a head.
  • noun. An abbreviation of peninsula.
  • 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 under calamary.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To write; to compose and commit to paper; to indite; to compose.
  • transitive verb. To shut up, as in a pen or cage; to confine in a small inclosure or narrow space; to coop up, or shut in; to inclose.
  • noun. A small inclosure.
  • noun. A penitentiary[6]; a prison.
  • noun. A feather.
  • noun. 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. The internal shell of a squid.
  • noun. 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.
  • Word Usage
    "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."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    cob  
    Equivalent
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    penned  penning  pent  
    Hypernym
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    Rhyme
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    Adrienne  Amen  Ben  Cayenne  Chen  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    band  bottle  box  brush  card  
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    variant
    penned  penning  pent  
    verb-form
    penned  penning  pens  pent