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Definition: Pen |
PenNoun1. A writing implement with a point from which ink flows. 2. An enclosure for confining livestock. 3. A portable enclosure in which babies may be left to play. 4. A correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes. 5. Female swan. Verb1. Produce a literary work; "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pen" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of a pen, foretells you are unfortunately being led into serious complications by your love of adventure. If the pen refuses to write, you will be charged with a serious breach of morality. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Environment | The products of combustion leave the furnace through vents and pass through flues to the stack. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | A small, closed yard for cows, sheep, pigs, chickens, etc. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A pen is a writing instrument which applies ink to some surface. There are two ideas about where the word pen came from.
Penkala later invented and perfected the fountain pen. Both devices are patented:
- Originally the word meant quill, and is derived from pinna (Latin for feather. Pens were made from goose feathers by carving the fearther with a penknife
- The inventor of the first pen (which was a mechanical graphite pencil) was Slavoljub Penkala and the device was named that way. It's abbreviated form is 'Pen', the first three letters of the inventor's surname.
Types of pens currently in use include the ballpoint pen, the fine-line marker pen, the artist's pen, and the fountain pen. Pens are also known, although not very commonly,as frindle.
- The patent for the mechanical pencil was obtained in 1906. from the Royal Patent Office in Budapest, patents No. 36946 and 38353. The patent was registered in England as No. 3690/1906 and 183242.
- The fountain pen goes under patent no. 193717 DRP.
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A pen is also the term used for the much-reduced and entirely internal shell of some cephalopod mollusks, especially squid.
- invention of the cartridge pen
- invention of the biro
- the space pen
- the (possibly urban-mythical) tale of the Russians using a pencil in space instead
- contrast with brush
Pen is also used as a verbal expression of "to create" or "to write".
For example: "Today, I think I'll pen the Great Canadian Novel."
Pen is also used to describe an enclosed location.
For example: Pigpen
Short for penitentiary.
See also Pencil.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pen."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
PEN | English | Pharmacy Equivalent Name | N/A |
PEN | French | Nouveau sol-code ISO | Economics, Meteorology & Standards |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: PenSynonyms: penitentiary (n), playpen (n), compose (v), indite (v), write (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Abode | Cot, cabin, hut, chalet, croft, shed, booth, stall, hovel, bothy, shanty, dugout, wigwam; pen; (inclosure); barn, bawn; kennel, sty, doghold, cote, coop, hutch, byre; cow house, cow shed; stable, dovecote, columbary, columbarium; shippen; igloo, iglu, jacal; lacustrine dwelling, lacuslake dwelling, lacuspile dwelling; log cabin, log house; shack, shebang, tepee, topek. |
Cage, terrarium, doghouse; pen, aviary; barn, stall; zoo. | |
Book | Writer, author, litterateur, essayist, journalism; pen, scribbler, the scribbling race; literary hack, Grub-street writer; writer for the press, gentleman of the press, representative of the press; adjective jerker, diaskeaust, ghost, hack writer, ink slinger; publicist; reporter, penny a liner; editor, subeditor; playwright; poet. |
Prison | Noun: prison, prison house; jail, gaol, cage, coop, den, cell; stronghold, fortress, keep, donjon, dungeon, Bastille, oubliette, bridewell, house of correction, hulks, tollbooth, panopticon, penitentiary, guardroom, lockup, hold; round house, watch house, station house, sponging house; station; house of detention, black hole, pen, fold, pound; inclosure; isolation (exclusion); penal settlement, penal colony; bilboes, stocks, limbo, quod; calaboose, chauki, choky, thana; workhouse. |
Restraint | Confine; shut up, shut in; clap up, lock up, box up, mew up, bottle up, cork up, seal up, button up; hem in, bolt in, wall in, rail in; impound, pen, coop; inclose; (circumscribe); cage; incage, encage; close the door upon, cloister; imprison, immure; incarcerate, entomb; clap under hatches, lay under hatches; put in irons, put in a strait-waistcoat; throw into prison, cast into prison; put into bilboes. |
Writing | Verb: write, pen; copy, engross; write out, write out fair; transcribe; scribble, scrawl, scrabble, scratch; interline; stain paper; write down; (record); sign; (attest); enface. |
Stationery; pen, quill, goose quill; pencil, style; paper, foolscap, parchment, vellum, papyrus, tablet, slate, marble, pillar, table; blackboard; ink bottle, ink horn, ink pot, ink stand, ink well; typewriter. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | The pen is blue, the pen is blue, the goddamn pen is blue (Liar Liar; writing credit: Paul Guay; Stephen Mazur) I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom (Laura; writing credit: Vera Caspary; Jay Dratler) She gave me a pen. I gave her my heart, she gave me a pen (Say Anything...; writing credit: Cameron Crowe) I'm gonna go to the pen. My poor kids (Nine to Five; writing credit: Colin Higgins) Maybe I should stick a pen in my eye. (The Faculty; writing credit: David Wechter; Bruce Kimmel) | |
Lyrics | Queen Pen and Blackstreet, it's no diggity (No Diggity; performing artist: Blackstreet) 'em in the pen (All She Wants to Do Is Dance; performing artist: Don Henley) What cause I been in the lab wit a pen and a pad (Forgot About Dre; performing artist: Dr. dre) And Benny Goodman's corset and pen (If It Makes You Happy; performing artist: Sheryl Crow) Girlfriend here's a pen, call me round ten (Hypnotize; performing artist: The Notorious B.I.G.) | |
Clever | Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest of these is: It might have been. (references; author: unknown) Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons! (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Pen Pals (1973) Xiang pen pen xiao jie (1968) The Play Pen Girls (1967) Pen to People (1960) Xiang xiang pen xiao jie (1958) | |
Song Titles | Ink and Pen (performing artist: Sandy Andina) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Pictured is an attendant in a green lab coat, kneeling in an outdoor kennel pen. He is stroking one of the hogs in the pen with him and looking over the several other hogs in the pen. These animals are probably going to be used in an experiment. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). | A pen and ink drawing showing a woman getting a mammogam and assisted by a radiology technician. Credit: Al Louang (artist). | ||
![]() | Pen and pencil sketch of Sulu Sea. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | Station Pen in Washington Triangulation party of O. B. French - occupied by J. S. Hill Instrument was mounted on tree trunk Instrument remained steady in azimuth but unsteady in level. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
![]() | Stone crab holding pen - used to protect crab after its claw is removed. Credit: Fisheries. | ![]() | Close-up of a blue crab in a holding pen. Credit: Fisheries. |
![]() | Figure 46 (cont.) Shaeffer and Budenberg recording manometer, mechanism above, recording graph below. The instrument is within an enclosed case which is acted upon by water pressure. An amplification mechanism transmits the displacement to a pen which records the corresponding depth on a gridded sheet. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. | ![]() | Figure 60. Joe Soundings sounder. This device was described in nautical magazine in 1832 by an individual with the pen name "Joe Soundings." It used a counter incremented by a propeller to measure the distance to the bottom. It is similar to the Massey sounder and Massey is sometimes cited as the inventor. There is no information concerning testing or use of this instrument. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
![]() | Close up of five piglets in pen. Credit: USDA. | ![]() | Sheep in pen. Credit: USDA. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Notebook and a pen" by Henrique Yoshimura Commentary: "A notebook with a fountain-pen upon it and a sketch at the side." | "Parker Pen" by Mischar Jung Commentary: "Silver stainless steel Parker Pen." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
| Scribble; pencil; pen; scribbling; write; . | Clink; jail; prison; behind bars; locked up; lock up; lock down; incarceration; incarcerated; Bastille; big cage; big house; big school; black hole; booby hatch; brig; bull pen; caboose; cage; calaboose; can; cell; cooler; coop; county hotel; death house. | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Cervantes | Let none presume to tell me that the pen is preferable to the sword. |
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton | The pen is mightier than the sword. |
Henry Vaughan | Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen. |
Horace Walpole | Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold. |
J. M. Synge | I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen. |
John Greenleaf Whittier | For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: ''It might have been!'' |
John Keats | When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain. |
Julia Ward Howe | The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Old Fezziwig laid down his pen, and looked up at the clock, which pointed to the hour of seven |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Marius could hear the pen scratching over the paper |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Mr Harford went to and fro making little signs in red pencil and sometimes sitting beside the boy to show him how to hold the pen. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | He brought with him pen, ink, and paper, and three or four books, giving me to understand by signs, that he was sent to teach me the language |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The heart's electrical signals cause a pen to draw lines across a strip of graph paper in the ECG machine. (references) | |
For example, the doctor can shine a pen light into the eye to see if the pupil contracts normally or ask the patient to follow a moving object, such as a finger. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | China | The PEN American Center reported that during 2000 there was a tightening of the publishing rules. (references) |
Iran | PEN had reported in October 1998 that Declaration signatories Mohammad Pouyandeh, Mohammad Mokhtari, Houshang Golshiri, Kazem Kardevani, and Mansour Koushan were questioned by a Revolutionary Court in connection with their attempts to convene a meeting of the Iran Writer's Association. (references) | |
Russia | The Russian branch of the international writers' defense organization PEN strongly criticized her arrest. (references) | |
Human Rights | Jamaica | In 1999 police rounded up 52 men from the Grant's Pen area of Kingston after civil unrest erupted there. (references) |
Jamaica | In response, Grant's Pen community residents set up roadblocks in protest, but police cleared them by nightfall. (references) | |
United Arab Emirates | Foreigners have received sealed publications, such as magazines, through the international mail in which pictures of the naked human figure have been blackened over with a marking pen. (references) | |
Political Economy | MALAYSIA | Import duties on 25 intermediate goods, with duties higher than finished goods (including cocoa paste, plugs and sockets, and ball point pen parts) have been reduced from between 10 and 30 percent to between 5 and 25 percent. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem -- a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success. 'Tis said by divers of the scholar-men That poor Salmasius died of Milton's pen. Alas! we cannot know if this is true, For reading Milton's wit we perish too. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | The difference is that his pen doesn't have any ink in it! |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | If the legislation you send me does not guarantee every American private health insurance that can never be taken away, I will take this pen, veto that legislation, and we'll come right back here and start over again. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Pen" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 88.21% of the time. "Pen" is used about 2,118 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 88.21% | 1,868 | 4,564 |
| Noun (proper) | 9.15% | 194 | 22,014 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.75% | 37 | 56,631 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.57% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.33% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,118 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "pen" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Pen | Last name | 300 | 25,244 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Pen." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Pen | Female | English | Penelope |
| Pene | Female | English | Penelope |
| Penny | Female | English | Penelope |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| Japan | Sailor Pen Co., Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "pen": a slip of the pen ♦ ball pen ♦ ball point pen ♦ ballpoint pen ♦ Bow pen ♦ bull pen ♦ by a stroke of the pen ♦ cartridge pen ♦ cattle pen ♦ cow pen ♦ dash of the pen ♦ data pen ♦ dinosaur pen ♦ dip one's pen in ink ♦ dip pen ♦ dip the pen in gall ♦ Dotting pen ♦ draw the pen through ♦ Drawing pen ♦ drive a pen ♦ Electric pen ♦ felt pen ♦ felt tip pen ♦ fiber pen ♦ fine pen ♦ fountain pen ♦ Geometric pen ♦ have a fluent pen ♦ he grabbed a pen ♦ hold pen ♦ ink pen ♦ j pen ♦ keelyvine pen ♦ knight of the pen ♦ lapse of pen ♦ light pen ♦ marking pen ♦ music pen ♦ pen a memorandum ♦ pen and ink ♦ pen and penholder ♦ Pen Argyl ♦ pen box ♦ pen club ♦ pen feather ♦ pen for submarines ♦ pen friend ♦ pen holder ♦ pen in ♦ pen in hand ♦ pen knife ♦ pen name ♦ pen nib ♦ pen of a ready writer ♦ pen pal ♦ pen picture ♦ pen point ♦ pen pusher ♦ pen swan ♦ pen up ♦ play pen ♦ poison pen ♦ poison pen letter ♦ put one's pen through a word ♦ put pen to paper ♦ quill pen ♦ ready pen ♦ reed pen ♦ retractable pen ♦ ruling pen ♦ sea pen ♦ set pen to paper ♦ sheep pen ♦ slip of the pen ♦ stroke of the pen ♦ stylographic pen ♦ submarine pen ♦ take up one's pen ♦ Text pen ♦ wield the pen ♦ write with pen. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "pen": pen-a, pen-and-ink, pen-and-red, pen-and-wash, pen-aware, pen-based, pen-besmirched, pen-box, pen-case, pen-centric, Pen-clawdd, pen-down, pen-drawn, pen-driven, pen-driver, pen-drivers, pen-driving, pen-enabled, pen-ends, pen-friend, pen-friends, pen-input, pen-knife, pen-knives, pen-light, pen-lights, pen-man, pen-mate, pen-men, pen-name, pen-nib, pen-operated, pen-pal, pen-pals, pen-pics, pen-picture, pen-plotter, pen-pockets, pen-portrait, pen-portraits, pen-pusher, pen-pushers, pen-pushing, pen-screen, pen-stand, pen-stroke, pen-tailed tree shrew, pen-tip, pen-tops, pen-type, pen-up, pen-ups, Pen-Vee, pen-wiper, Pen-y-berllan, pen-y-clip, Pen-y-dyffryn, Pen-y-ghent, Pen-y-graig, Pen-y-gwryd, Pen-y-mount, pen-y-pass, Pen-y-pound, Pen-yr-orsedd. | |
Ending with "pen": fountain-pen, play-pen, poison-pen, sheep-pen. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
pen pal | 8,328 | logo pen | 247 |
pen | 4,127 | international pen pal | 243 |
prison pen pal | 1,542 | inmate pen pal | 243 |
mont blanc pen | 683 | pilot pen | 226 |
fountain pen | 664 | usb pen drive | 219 |
christian pen pal | 574 | dog pen | 210 |
cross pen | 551 | montblanc pen | 199 |
free pen pal | 533 | gel pen | 196 |
pen drive | 493 | snail mail pen pal | 181 |
wood pen | 467 | japanese pen pal | 180 |
parker pen | 462 | fine pen | 170 |
ink pen | 457 | round pen | 141 |
pen pal for kid | 427 | pen pencil | 139 |
promotional pen | 388 | military pen pal | 129 |
pen friend | 366 | light pen | 127 |
personalized pen | 346 | pig pen | 125 |
teen pen pal | 326 | custom pen | 125 |
waterman pen | 319 | quill pen | 123 |
writing pen | 273 | national pen | 122 |
bic pen | 248 | email pen pal | 122 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "pen"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | veer (feather, plume). (various references) | |
Albanian | penë (pencil), burg (cage, calaboose, can, choky, clink, gaol, jail, limbo, lockup, mill, Nick, penitentiary, poky, prison, prison house, quod, stir), dok i mbyllur, kotec (Cote, hencoop, henhouse, hutch, roost), krijoj (brew, compose, conceive, contract, create, develop, erect, establish, forge, form, found, institute, make, originate, procreate, produce, raise, shape, sow, transact), majë pene (nib), aftësi për të shkruar, mjellmë (pen swan, Swan), vathë (corral, Cote, ear ring, eardrop, fold, Pinfold, run, runway, sheep pen, sheep-cote, sheepfold, stockyard, yard), rrethojë (girdle, hurdle, pale, paling, palisade), shkruaj (chalk up, enter, note, pencil, register, write), shtëpi korrektimi (community home, reformatory, workhouse), stallë (byre, Mews, stall, stockyard, stud), stilograf (fountain pen), stilolaps (ball pen, ballpoint, stylograph), mbyll (bung, calk, caulk, close, close up, commit, confine, crib, dry up, encase, enclose, encompass, end, entomb, fasten, furl, glue up, hush up, impound, inclose, key, lap, obturate, occlude, screw on, seal, shut, shut down, shut up, shutter, stop, stop up, stuff, suffuse, turn off, wind up, wrap up). (various references) | |
Arabic | قَلَم (office), كتب (compile, compose, draft, draw up, enter, inscribe, note down, prescribe, publication, record, register, write, write down), قفل (block out, close, confine, enclose, fastener, inclose, latch, lock, obstruct, padlock, plug, shut, shut down, shut out, shutter, turn off), قفص (cage, chest, coop, crate), قلم كرية, قلم حبر (biro, fountain pen), قلم (clip, cut, cut back, liner, manicure, pare, prune, streak, stria, stripe, trim), حوض لاصلاح الغواصات, حظيرة (cowshed, enclosure, stockade, stockyard, yard), زريبة (corral, cote, cowshed, crib, fold, house, pound, shed, stable, yard), زرب (corral), أنثى الأوز العراقي, ريشة الكتابة (nib), دبج. (various references) | |
Asturian | bolígrafu. (various references) | |
Basque | boligrafo. (various references) | |
Bemba | nibu. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | iihtáísínaakio'p (camera). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | западноиндийска ферма, пиша (inscribe, record, sling ink, writ, write, write down), писалка, писател (author, penman, scribe, writer), писателска дейност (writing career), перо (entry, feather, nib, plume), литературен стил, автор (author, creator, enactor, hand, mover, originator, scribe, writer), изправителен дом (bridewell, penitentiary, workhouse), западноиндийска плантация, съчинявам (compose, excogitate, indite, invent, make, make up, mint, put together), затварям (case, cicatrize, close, constrain, douse, enclose, gaol, hem, house, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, latch, lock, lock up, mew, obturate, prison, pull to, restrain, screw up, seal off, shut, shut away, shut in, shut up, stop, turn off), затварям добитък в коша, затвор (bastille, bondage, calaboose, can, choky, clink, confinement, duress, gaol, hold, jail, jug, kitty, limbo, lock, lockup, mew, penitentiary, pokey, pound, prison, prison house, quod, shop, shut off, shutter, shuttle, stockade, stopper), оградено място (close, enclosure), вкарвам добиттък в кошара, вкарвам в затвора, кошара (cattle pen, cot, cot case, fold, lair, loose box, shieling), укритие за подводници, женски лебед (pen swan). (various references) | |
Catalan | bolígraf (ballpoint pen). (various references) | |
Cebuano | pluma. (various references) | |
Chamorro | pluma. (various references) | |
Chinese | 聿 (introductory part.), 筆桿子 (an effective writer), 筆桿 (pen-holder, the shaft of a pen or writing brush), 筆 (pencil, the strokes of Chinese characters, to write or compose, writing brush), 笔 (Pens), 翰 , 圈 (a fold, chest, circle, enclose, Hungary, loop, ring, thorax, to confine), 柙 (cage, scabbard), 欄圈 (animal yard), 欄 (fence, railing). (various references) | |
Cornish | plüven. (various references) | |
Czech | pero (feather, nib, spring). (various references) | |
Danish | pen (pen nib), skorsten (chimney, fireplace, hearth, smokestack), fjeder (feather, plume, spring). (various references) | |
Dutch | hok (sty). (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | quillcana (to write). (various references) | |
Esperanto | plumo (feather), skriboplumo, bestejo (sty), ŝafejo (fold). (various references) | |
Faeroese | pennur (feather, plume). (various references) | |
Farsi | نگاشتن (Register), نوشتن (Character, Inscribe, Write), کلک , قلم (Entry, Shaft, Style), حیوانات اغل , خامه (Style), خانه ییلاقی (Villa), اغل (Corral, Pound), شیوه نگارش , درحبس انداختن , بستن (Assess, Attach, Bang, Bar, Belt, Bind, Bloc, Block, Blockade, Choke, Clasp, Coagulate, Congeal, Cork, Curdle, Gird, Hasp, Impute, Jam, Jell, Knit, Obturate, Padlock, Picket, Plug, Seal, Shut, Steek, Tighten, Truss, Wattle). (various references) | |
Finnish | kynä (feather, pencil, plume, quill). (various references) | |
French | plume (pencil). (various references) | |
Frisian | plom (feather, plume), pinne (feather, plume), pin, skieppehok (fold), fear (feather, ferry, plume, spring). (various references) | |
German | Feder (feather, nib, plume, plumes, quill, quills, spring), Füller (filler, fillers, fountain pen, fountain-pen, foutain pen). (various references) | |
Greek | στυλό (fountain pen). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מכלאה (byre, corral, cot, fold, pale, pound, stockade), לכתוב (record, register, write), להכניס לדיר, קולמוס (quill, reed pen), עט (nib, stylus), דיר (cot, fold, hutch, shed, store), גדרה (corral, sheepfold). (various references) | |
Hungarian | toll (feather, plumage, plume), karám (bawn, cattle pen, corral, cruive, fold, hurdle, kraal, Pinfold, pound, stock-yard), akol (fold, kraal). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pena (ballpoint), bolpen (ballpoint), balpen (ballpoint). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | titiraut imaqaqtuq. (various references) | |
Irish | peann. (various references) | |
Italian | penna (feather, plume, quill). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ペルセウス座 (licking, P.E.N., paint, pellet, perestroika, Perseus), 檻 (cage, jail cell), 小屋 (cabin, hut, shed). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おり (cage, chance, jail cell, suitable time, weave, weaving, woven item), ペン (P.E.N.), こや (cabin, hut, shed). (various references) | |
Korean | 펜 (Pens). (various references) | |
Lombard | penna (feather, plume). (various references) | |
Macedonian | penkalo. (various references) | |
Manx | screeu (document, documentation, inscribe, scribe, write, write in), penney, paal (circle, circle fold, coop, enclave, enclosure, fold, pale, pavilion, ring), ollay woirrin, fedjag screeuee (calamus, pen feather, quill pen), cur 'sy phaal, croa (aperture, compound, coop, corral, enclave, enclosure, eyehole, fold, notch, ring). (various references) | |
Maori | pene. (various references) | |
Mohawk | yehyatonhkwa. (various references) | |
Norwegian | penn (feather, plume). (various references) | |
Occitan | estilò. (various references) | |
Papago | lahbis. (various references) | |
Papiamen | pen. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | enpay.(various references) | |
Polish | pióro (feather, plume). (various references) | |
Portuguese | curral (cattle shed, cote, cowhouse, kraal, pinfold, pound, stable, stall, stockyard, sty), aprisco (cote, fold, sty). (various references) | |
Provencal | estilo. (various references) | |
Romanian | toc (case, casement, casing, cover, feather, holster, housing, knock, penholder, plume, sheath, smack, stalk, tap). (various references) | |
Romansch | penna. (various references) | |
Romany | perodrùshka. (various references) | |
Ruanda | ikaramu yirangi. (various references) | |
Russian | загон (corral, cot, cote, paddock, pound, roundup, yard), писатель (author, litterateur, man of letters, penman, scribe, writer), писать (impaste, indite, pee, piss, write, written in russian), плантация (plantation), перемычка (brattice, dam, diaphragm, feedthrough, jumper, lintel, loopback, web), перо (feather, nib, plume, quill, styli, stylus), перо писчее, преграждать путь (head back), литературная работа, литературный стиль (pencraft), дамба (barrage, causeway, dam, dike, embankment, levee, mole, seawall, sea-wall), запирать (bar, crib, embay, fasten, lock, lock in, mew up, pawl, shut in, shut up), сочинять ручка;загон, загон для скота (cattle pen, cattle-pen, corral, lair), загонять (huddle, impound), загонять скот, небольшой загон (pen swan), рисунок пером, рейсфедер (drawing pen, drawing-pen), ручка (arm, grip, haft, handle, holder, knob, lug, penholder, pud, pud 1, shaft, stick, stock), ручка с пером, самка лебедя, сочинять (indite), авторучка (fountain pen, fountain-pen). (various references) | |
Samoan | peniutu. (various references) | |
Scottish | peann (a pen, feather, plume). (various references) | |
Sepedi | oko. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pisati (spell, write), pisac (author, literate, writer), pero (feather, plume, quill, style), zatvoriti u tor, tor (cattle pen, cote, lair, sheep fold), obor (cote, enclosure), kokošinjac (chicken coop, coop, hen house, hencoop, henhouse, roost). (various references) | |
Spanish | pluma (feather, hackle, penmanship, plume, quill, writing). (various references) | |
Sranan | pen (ache, pain). (various references) | |
Swahili | kalamu (feather, pencil, plume). (various references) | |
Swedish | penna (feather, pencil, plume, quill). (various references) | |
Tagalog | plúma. (various references) | |
Turkish | kalem (entry, item, pencil, style), ağıla kapamak (fold, pen in, pen up, pound, pound up), dolmakalem (fountain pen, Stylo, stylograph, stylographic pen), hapishane (bull pen, cage, can, choky, clink, cooler, coop, gaol, institution, jail, Nick, penal institution, penitentiary, pound, prison, quod, roundhouse, shop, stir, stockade, tank, ward), hapsetmek (bar, cage, confine, detain, immure, imprison, incarcerate, intern, jail, lock up, mew, mew up, mure, pen in, pen up, restrain, shut in, shut up), kâğıda dökmek (indite, write), ağıl (aureola, aureole, compound, corral, cot, Cote, fold, halation, hovel, lair, Pinfold, pound, sheep fold, sheep pen, stockyard, yard), kafes (bird cage, cage, coop, grating, grill, grille, hutch, jail, lath, lattice, mew, trellis), yazmak (clock up, commit to paper, compose, conceive, draw, draw up, enroll, enter, grind out, indite, inscribe, note, note down, put down, put on paper, record, reduce to writing, register, set, set down, take down, write, write down, write out), kaleme almak (commit to paper, grind out, indite, write, write up), kodes (bull pen, cage, can, choky, clink, cooler, gaol, hole, jail, jug, prison, quod, stir), kuğu (cob swan, pen swan, swan), mürekkepli kalem, tükenmez kalem (ball pen, ball point pen, Biro), yazı üslubu, kümes (coop, cot, Cote, fowl run, hencoop, hut, hutch). (various references) | |
Turkmen | ruзka (r), agyl (enclosure, sheep hold). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | обгороджене місце (enclosure, inclosure), загін (band, barracoon, corral, platoon), заганяти в загін, замикати (closet, crib, fasten, lock up, shut in, sneck), літературна праця, перо (feather, plume, quill), письменник (author, penman, penner, scribe, writer), писати (drive a pen, indite, scribe, write), дамба (bank, barrage, bund, causeway, dam, dike, dyke, embankment, jetty, mole, pier, sea-bank). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | văn phong nhà văn, tác giả (penman), nghề viết văn (writing), gà (fowl), con thiên nga cái, chỗ quây, cừu (red meat), bút pháp (touch), bò (barbecue, stable). (various references) | |
Welsh | pin (pin), ysgrifell, ysgrifbin, cytio (sty), corlan (enclosure, fold). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | kisim. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cellaria, cellarium, claustrum, cubile, cubili, cubilia, cubilibus, cubilis, penna. (various references) |
| Dutch | 700-Modern | hok. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | penne. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Jeremiah Chapter 17, Verse 1 |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Peccatum Iuda scriptum est stilo ferreo in ungue adamantino exaratum super latitudinem cordis eorum et in cornibus ararum eorum |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | The synne of Jude writen is with an irene pointel, in an adamantyne nail, grauen out vp on the brede of ther herte, and in the hornes of their auteres. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars; |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars; |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | The sin of Judah is recorded with a pen of iron, and with the sharp point of a jewel it is cut on their hearts of stone, and on the horns of their altars for a sign to them: |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Jeremiah Chapter 17, Verse 1 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ang sala sa Juda gisulat sa usa ka dagang nga puthaw, ug sa tumoy sa diamante: gililok kini sa papan sa ilang kasingkasing ug sa mga sungay sa inyong mga halaran; |
| Chinese | 猶 大 的 罪 、 是 用 鐵 筆 、 用 金 鋼 鑽 記 錄 的 . 銘 刻 在 他 們 的 心 版 上 、 和 壇 角 上 。 |
| Croatian | Judin grijeh upisan je željeznom pisaljkom, urezan dijamantnim vrškom u ploèicu njihova srca i u rogove njihovih žrtvenika, |
| Danish | Optegnet er Judas Synd med med griffel af jern, med Diamantspids ristet i deres Hjertes Tavle og på deres Altres Horn, |
| Dutch | De zonde van Juda is geschreven met een ijzeren griffie, met de punt eens diamants; gegraven in de tafel van hunlieder hart, en aan de hoornen uwer altaren; |
| Finnish | "Juudan synti on kirjoitettu rautapiirtimellä, timanttikärjellä, kaiverrettu heidän sydämensä tauluun ja teidän alttarienne sarviin, |
| French | Le péché de Juda est écrit avec un burin de fer, Avec une pointe de diamant; Il est gravé sur la table de leur coeur, Et sur les cornes de vos autels. |
| German | Die Sünde Juda's ist geschrieben mit eisernen Griffeln, und spitzigen Demanten geschrieben, und auf die Tafel ihres Herzens gegraben und auf die Hörner an ihren Altären, |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Seyè a di: -Yo ekri peche moun Jida yo ak yon sizo an fè. Li make nan kè nou ak yon pwent an dyaman. Li grave sou kat kwen lotèl nou yo, |
| Hungarian | A Júda vétke vas tollal, gyémánt hegygyel van felírva; fel van vésve szívök táblájára és oltáraik szarvaira, |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | TUHAN berkata, "Hai bangsa Yehuda, dosamu telah terukir pada hatimu dan pada semua sudut mezbah-mezbahmu dengan pena besi yang bermata pena dari intan. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bahwa dosa orang Yehuda sudah tersurat dengan kalam besi yang ujungnya intan, terukir pada loh hatinya dan pada segala tanduk mezbahmu; |
| Italian | Il peccato di Giuda è scritto con uno stilo di ferro, con una punta di diamante è inciso sulla tavola del loro cuore e sugli angoli dei loro altari, |
| Maori | ¶ Kua oti te hara o Hura te tuhituhi ki te pene rino, ki te mata hoki o te taimana: he mea whaowhao rawa ki te papa o to ratou ngakau, ki runga hoki ki nga haona o a koutou aata; |
| Norwegian | Judas synd er skrevet med en jerngriffel, med en diamantspiss; den er inngravet på deres hjertes tavle og på deres alteres horn, |
| Portuguese | O pecado de Judá está escrito com um ponteiro de ferro; com ponta de diamante está gravado na tábua do seu coração e nas pontas dos seus altares; |
| Rumanian | Pqcatul lui Iuda este scris cu un priboi de fer, cu un vkrf de diamant; este sqpat pe tabla inimii lor, wi pe coarnele altarelor lor. |
| Swedish | Juda synd. Sabbatsbudet. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pen": penal, penalise, penalised, penalises, penalising, penalities, penality, penalization, penalizations, penalize, penalized, penalizes, penalizing, penally, penalties, penalty, penance, penanced, penances, penancing, penang, penangs, penates, pence, pencel, pencels, penchant, penchants, pencil, penciled, penciler, pencilers, penciling, pencilings, pencilled, pencilling, pencillings, pencils, pend, pendant, pendants, pended, pendencies, pendency, pendent, pendentive, pendentives, pendents, pending, pends, pendular. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "pen": arpen, aspen, bullpen, cheapen, copen, crispen, dampen, deepen, happen, hempen, holpen, keppen, kippen, lippen, loupen, lumpen, mispen, misshapen, open, pigpen, playpen, plumpen, rappen, reopen, ripen, shapen, sharpen, shippen, steepen, unopen, unpen, unshapen. (additional references) | |
Words containing "pen": alpenglow, alpenglows, alpenhorn, alpenhorns, alpenstock, alpenstocks, antependia, antependium, antependiums, antepenult, antepenultima, antepenultimas, antepenultimate, antepenultimates, antepenults, antispending, append, appendage, appendages, appendant, appendants, appendectomies, appendectomy, appended, appendicectomies, appendicectomy, appendices, appendicitis, appendicitises, appendicular, appending, appendix, appendixes, appends, arpens, arpent, arpents, aspens, bullpens, carpenter, carpentered, carpentering, carpenters, carpentries, carpentry, catchpenny, cheapened, cheapening, cheapens, codependence, codependences. (additional references) | |
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"Pen" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: epan, epb, epin, epm, ipen, paen, pahn, pann, pbe, pbend, pbn, pde, Peb, pec, peent, Peh, Pehn, pej, pem, pena, pend, pene, penf, peng, P'eng, penh, peni, Penk, peno, peny, peo, peq, Pern, petn, peu, peun, pev, pewn, pez, Pfe, pheen, phen, pien, pinn, pleen, plen, Plenn, pme, pn, poen, poeni, pon, povn, ppan, ppen, pren, prenn, prevn, prn, ptn, punn, pyn, upen. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "pen" (pronounced pe"n) |
| 2 | -e" n | again, amen, Ben, Benne, bren, cayenne, comedienne, den, en, Glen, handymen, hen, Ken, lawmen, Madeleine, men, oilmen, patrolmen, pitchmen, Sen, ten, then, Wen, when, Wren, yen. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-n-p" | |
-1 letter: en, ne, pe. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-n-p" | |
+1 letter: nape, neap, neep, nope, open, pane, pean, peen, pein, pend, pens, pent, peon, pine, pone. | |
+2 letters: apnea, arpen, aspen, copen, genip, inept, napes, nappe, neaps, neeps, netop, opens, opine, paean, paeon, paned, panel, panes, panne, paten, peans, pecan, peens, peins, pekan, pekin, pelon, penal, pence, pends, penes, pengo, penis, penna, penne, penni, penny, peons, peony, phone, pined, pines, piney, plane, plena, ponce, pones, preen, prone, prune, repin, ripen, sneap, snipe, spean, spend, spent, spine, unpeg, unpen, upend. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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