Meaning of Pen | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An enclosure (enclosed area) used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
2. Abbreviation of polyethylene naphthalate.
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable
3. A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.
4. A female swan.
5. Penalty.
   slang
6. Penetration.
   informal
7. A diminutive of the female given name Penelope.
8. The 68th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
9. A penitentiary, i.e. a state or federal prison for convicted felons.
   slang
10. Abbreviation of penalty (a scorecard score when a skater is penalized out of their skate).
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable
11. A writer, or their style.
    figuratively
12. The bullpen.
13. Marks of ink left by a pen.
    colloquial
14. A light pen.
15. The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.
16. A feather, especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc.
    archaic, dialectal, poetic
17. A wing.
    poetic
18. A syringe-like device for injecting a dose of medication such as insulin or epinephrine. (See Injector pen.)
19. Ellipsis of vapor pen (“electronic cigarette”).
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

Equivalents

Examples

“There are two steers in the third pen.”

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

“Two righties are up in the pen.”

“He took notes with a pen.”

“Please use a pen, not a pencil, when filling out this form. Use black or blue ink only.”

“He has a sharp pen.”

“those learned pens”

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

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

“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 […]”

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

“"I'm sure she had more than one EpiPen […]" "But she didn't have one when she got stung or she'd have used it." By all appearances, Mariah died in the woods, […] If she managed to grab the pen found under her leg from her bag or pocket, she never discharged it. But Crystal doesn't have these details. "Doesn't it make sense that she kept an extra pen in her cupboard, and one in her bag? The extra pen fell out, is all."”

“a dab pen; a wax pen”

“England won 3-1 on pens.”

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

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