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Pen

Definition: Pen

Pen

Noun

1. 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.

Verb

1. 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)

 

Specialty Definition: Pen

DomainDefinition

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.

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Specialty Definition: Pen

(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: 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.

Things that could be mentioned here

A pen is also the term used for the much-reduced and entirely internal shell of some cephalopod mollusks, especially squid.

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."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: 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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

PEN

EnglishPharmacy Equivalent NameN/A

PEN

FrenchNouveau sol-code ISOEconomics, Meteorology & Standards

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Pen

Synonyms: penitentiary (n), playpen (n), compose (v), indite (v), write (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Pen

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Pen

English words defined with "pen": ballpen, ballpoint, ballpoint pen, Biro, Bow-compass, Bow-penCarroll, cattle pen, Charles Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Coop, corral, correspond, cow pen, creep, Crow-quill, Curlycuedeflection, deflexion, Dodgson, Dotting penElectric pen, engravefelt tip, felt-tip pen, felt-tipped pen, fold, fountain pen, Fox and geeseGladius, Goose quill, graphospasm, graveHogpen, HogstyImpen, inkstand, inkwell, inscribe, IridizeKeelivine, kraalLewis CarrollMagic Marker, mighty, Music penNom de plumeO. Henrypaddock, Pen and ink, pen-and-ink, Pend, Penholder, penlight, Penwiper, pigpen, pigsty, pinfold, porter, pseudonymousquill, Quill driver, quill penReverend Dodgson, running handsheep pen, sheepcote, sheepfold, sty, Styliform, Stylograph, Stylographic, Stylographic pen, SwinestyText pen, To use upUnpenWilliam Sydney Porter, writer's cramp. (references)
Specialty definitions using "pen": ball-point pen, BALLPOINT PEN CARTRIDGE TESTERdinosaur pen. (references)
Etymologies containing "pen": Sekes. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Pen" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Afrikaan (feather, pen, plume), Cornish (head), Danish (pen), Dutch (feather, pen, plume, prickle, sting), Norwegian (beautiful, fair, fine, handsome, lovely), Papiamen (pen), Sranan (ache, pain, pen), Welsh (apex, chief, end, head, pate, summit, supreme, surface, top).

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Modern Usage: Pen

DomainUsage

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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Commercial Usage: Pen

DomainTitle

References

  • Sailor Pen Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • The World Market for Pen Nibs and Nib Points: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • The Human Race Club - Unforgettable Pen Pal (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Pen

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Photo Album: Pen

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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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Digital Photo Gallery: Pen
 

"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.

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Sounds Captioned with "Pen".

PlayCaptionPlayCaption
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.

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Familiar Quotations: Pen

AuthorQuotation

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.

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Use in Literature: Pen

TitleAuthorQuote

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.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Pen

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Speeches: Pen

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989The difference is that his pen doesn't have any ink in it!

Bill Clinton

1993-2001If 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.

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Usage Frequency: Pen

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)88.21%1,8684,564
Noun (proper)9.15%19422,014
Lexical Verb (infinitive)1.75%3756,631
Unclassified Items0.57%12101,599
Lexical Verb (base form)0.33%7133,076
                    Total100.00%2,118N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Pen

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.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
PenLast name30025,244
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Pen

The following table summarizes names related to "Pen."
NameGenderLanguageRelated Name
PenFemaleEnglishPenelope
PeneFemaleEnglishPenelope
PennyFemaleEnglishPenelope
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Pen

CountryName
Japan

Sailor Pen Co., Ltd.

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Pen

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Pen

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translation: Pen

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 

  

(introductory part.), 筆桿子 (an effective writer), 筆桿 (pen-holder, the shaft of a pen or writing brush), (pencil, the strokes of Chinese characters, to write or compose, writing brush), (Pens), , (a fold, chest, circle, enclose, Hungary, loop, ring, thorax, to confine), (cage, scabbard), 欄圈 (animal yard), (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), (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 

  

(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), (fowl), con thiên nga cái, chỗ quây, cừu (red meat), bút pháp (touch), (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.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Pen

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Sumerian3100 BCE-2500 BCE

kisim. (various references)

Latin500 BCE-Modern

cellaria, cellarium, claustrum, cubile, cubili, cubilia, cubilibus, cubilis, penna. (various references)

Dutch700-Modern

hok. (various references)

Old French900-1400

penne. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Pen

LanguageDateSourceJeremiah Chapter 17, Verse 1
Latin405VulgatePeccatum Iuda scriptum est stilo ferreo in ungue adamantino exaratum super latitudinem cordis eorum et in cornibus ararum eorum
Middle English1395WyclifThe 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 English1611King JamesThe 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 English1833WebsterThe 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 English1964OgdenThe 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.

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Matched Bible Translations: Pen

LanguageJeremiah 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 。
CroatianJudin grijeh upisan je željeznom pisaljkom, urezan dijamantnim vrškom u ploèicu njihova srca i u rogove njihovih žrtvenika,
DanishOptegnet er Judas Synd med med griffel af jern, med Diamantspids ristet i deres Hjertes Tavle og på deres Altres Horn,
DutchDe 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,
FrenchLe 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.
GermanDie 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,
HungarianA Júda vétke vas tollal, gyémánt hegygyel van felírva; fel van vésve szívök táblájára és oltáraik szarvaira,
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariTUHAN 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 LamaBahwa dosa orang Yehuda sudah tersurat dengan kalam besi yang ujungnya intan, terukir pada loh hatinya dan pada segala tanduk mezbahmu;
ItalianIl 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;
NorwegianJudas synd er skrevet med en jerngriffel, med en diamantspiss; den er inngravet på deres hjertes tavle og på deres alteres horn,
PortugueseO 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;   
RumanianPqcatul 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.
SwedishJuda synd. Sabbatsbudet.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Pen

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)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Pen"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "pen" (pronounced pe"n)
2-e" nagain, 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.

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Anagrams: Pen

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.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Sounds
10. Quotations: Familiar
11. Quotations: Fiction
12. Quotations: Non-fiction
13. Quotations: Speeches
14. Usage Frequency
15. Names: Frequency
16. Names: Derived from
17. Names: Company Usage
18. Expressions
19. Expressions: Internet
20. Translations: Modern
21. Translations: Ancient
22. Bible Trace
23. Abbreviations
24. Acronyms
25. Derivations
26. Rhymes
27. Anagrams
28. Bibliography


  

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