Found 3 items, similar to pen.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: pen
balpen, bolpen, pena
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: pen
pen
v : produce a literary work;
“She composed a poem”;
“He wrote
four novels” [syn:
write,
compose,
indite]
[also:
pent,
penning,
penned]
pen
n 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
[syn:
playpen]
4: a correctional institution for those convicted of major
crimes [syn:
penitentiary]
5: female swan
[also:
pent,
penning,
penned]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Pen
Pen
\Pen\, n. [OE. penne, OF. penne, pene, F. penne, fr. L.
penna.]
1. A feather. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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2. A wing. [Obs.] --Milton.
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3. 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.
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Graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock. --Job
xix. 24.
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4. Fig.: A writer, or his style; as, he has a sharp pen.
“Those learned pens.” --Fuller.
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5. (Zo["o]l.) The internal shell of a squid.
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6. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zo["o]l.) A female swan. [Prov.
Eng.]
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Bow pen. See
Bow-pen.
Dotting pen, a pen for drawing dotted lines.
Drawing pen, or
Ruling pen, a pen for ruling lines having
a pair of blades between which the ink is contained.
Fountain pen,
Geometric pen. See under
Fountain, and
Geometric.
Music pen, a pen having five points for drawing the five
lines of the staff.
Pen and ink, or
pen-and-ink, executed or done with a pen
and ink; as, a pen and ink sketch.
Pen feather. A pin feather. [Obs.]
Pen name. See under
Name.
Sea pen (Zo["o]l.), a pennatula. [Usually written
sea-pen.]
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Pen
\Pen\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Penned; p. pr. & vb. n.
Penning.]
To write; to compose and commit to paper; to indite; to
compose; as, to pen a sonnet.
“A prayer elaborately
penned.” --Milton.
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Pen
\Pen\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Pennedor
Pent (?); p. pr. &
vb. n.
Penning.] [OE. pennen, AS. pennan in on-pennan to
unfasten, prob. from the same source as pin, and orig.
meaning, to fasten with a peg.See
Pin, n. & v.]
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.
“Away with her, and pen her up.” --Shak.
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Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve.
--Milton.
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Pen
\Pen\, n. [From
Pen to shut in.]
A small inclosure; as, a pen for sheep or for pigs.
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My father stole two geese out of a pen. --Shak.
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