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Definition: Penned |
PennedAdjective1. Enclosed by a confining fence. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "penned" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Synonyms: PennedSynonyms: confined (adj), fenced in (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Penned |
| English words defined with "penned": trap. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Yeah? Well, being penned up here with a daffodil like you comes awful close. (Ladies They Talk About; writing credit: Brown Holmes; Dorothy Mackaye) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Penned wild horsesWild Horse and Burro Adoption ProgramLSRDLower Snake River District.Credit: Sam Mattise. |  | USS Neosho (AO-48) refueling USS Balch (DD-363) -- on the opposite side -- and USS Wichita (CA-45) during operations in the Bering Sea in May 1943. Photographed from Wichita. The quoted title is that penned on the original print by VAdm. Giffen.Credit: NAVY. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Peter Jennings | We went to see President Arafat in his headquarters in Ramallah, where he has been penned in by the Israelis for more than three months. |
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| "Penned" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 48.45% of the time. "Penned" is used about 97 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 48.45% | 47 | 49,740 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 46.39% | 45 | 50,900 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 5.15% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 97 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "penned": confined fenced in penned. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "penned": penned-in. | |
Ending with "penned": self-penned. | |
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| 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 |
1942 1975 26 from lyrics nominated oscar penned sammy song which | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "penned"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Arabic | مكبوت (curbed, pent up, repressed, restrained, subdued, suppressed). (various references) | ||||
Chinese | 写作 (Penning). (various references) | ||||
German | verfasste. (various references) | ||||
Korean | "" (Written). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ennedpay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "penned": mispenned, unpenned. (additional references) | |
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"Penned" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apened, benned, mpende, pannet, peened, Pegnado, Penand, Penbedw, penced, pendejo, pendel, pene, Peneda, Penenden, pener, peneth, Pennard, pennat, penneth, penney, penni, Pennia, pennic, pennied, pennut, pented, Pienne, pinnad, punnet. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "penned" (pronounced pe"nd) |
| 4 | p e" n d | append, depend, expend, impend, misspend, spend, suspend. |
| 3 | -e" n d | amend, apprehend, ascend, attend, befriend, bend, blend, commend, comprehend, condescend, contend, defend, descend, distend, end, extend, fend, friend, intend, lend, mend, offend, overextend, portend, pretend, recommend, relend, send, tend, transcend, trend, unbend, wend, yearend. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-n-n-p" | |
-1 letter: penne. | |
-2 letters: deep, dene, need, neep, nene, peed, peen, pend. | |
-3 letters: dee, den, end, nee, ped, pee, pen. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, en, ne, pe. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-n-n-p" | |
+1 letter: pendent. | |
+2 letters: deponent, enplaned, penanced, pendency, pendents, pennated, pennoned, pinkened, repinned, unopened, unpenned. | |
+3 letters: deepening, dependant, dependent, depending, deponents, expending, impendent, mispenned, pensioned, predinner, replanned, splendent, trepanned, unripened. | |
+4 letters: antependia, deadpanned, deadpanner, dependance, dependants, dependence, dependency, dependents, despondent, nifedipine, nonexposed, openhanded, pendencies, pendentive, perennated, perpending, prednisone, preplanned, pretending, respondent, tenpounder, unexpended, unparented. | |
+5 letters: antependium, codependent, deadpanners, dependances, dependences, dependently, despondence, despondency, grandnephew, independent, inexpedient, interdepend, needlepoint, nifedipines, overplanned, pendentives, pentahedron, pentamidine, pentlandite, pointedness, predefining, prednisones, prefinanced, resplendent, respondents, superintend, tenpounders, turpentined, underpinned, unexplained, uninspected. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 65 6E 6E 65 64 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. . -. -. . -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100101 01101110 01101110 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P e n n e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0065 006E 006E 0065 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)507180807170 |
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