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pen
Pronunciation: (pen), [key]
—n., v., penned, pen•ning.
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n.
1. any of various instruments for writing or drawing with ink or a similar substance.
2. a detachable metal penpoint, filled by dipping or with a quill; nib.
3. such a penpoint with its penholder.
4. fountain pen.
5. ball-point pen.
6. the pen as the instrument of writing or authorship:
The pen is mightier than the sword.
7. a person's style or quality of writing:
He writes with a witty, incisive pen.
8. a writer:
I leave this story to abler pens.
9. the profession of writing:
a master of the pen.
10. Ornith.
a. a quill.
b. a pinfeather.
11. something resembling or suggesting a feather or quill.
12. Zool.an internal, corneous or chitinous, feather-shaped structure in certain cephalopods, as the squid.
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v.t.
1. to write with or as with a pen; put down in writing:
to pen an essay.
2. to draw with or as with a pen:
to pen a sketch. pen
Pronunciation: (pen), [key]
—n., v., penned or pent, pen•ning.
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n.
1. a small enclosure for domestic animals.
2. animals so enclosed:
We have a pen of twenty sheep.
3. an enclosure used for confinement or safekeeping:
We have built several pens to hold our harvest of corn.
4. playpen.
5. See
bull pen.
6. a dock having a protective concrete structure overhead, used to service and repair submarines.
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v.t.
to confine in or as in a pen.
pen
Pronunciation: (pen), [key]—
n. Slang.
penitentiary (def. 1).
pen
Pronunciation: (pen), [key]—
n.
a female swan.
pen-
var. of
pene- before a vowel:
penannular. Pen.
peninsula.
Also,pen.P.E.N.
International Association of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists, and Novelists.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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