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      pen
      noun
      A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.
      An enclosure (enclosed area) used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
      (slang) A penitentiary, i.e. a state or federal prison for convicted felons.
      (baseball) The bullpen.
      (colloquial) Marks of ink left by a pen.
      A syringe-like device for injecting a dose of medication such as insulin or epinephrine. (See Injector pen.)
      (figurative) A writer, or their style.
      (zoology) The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.
      A female swan.
      A light pen.
      (soccer, slang) Penalty.
      (computing, informal) Penetration.
      A diminutive of the female given name Penelope.
      The 68th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
      Ellipsis of vapor pen (“electronic cigarette”). [An electronic cigarette, especially when used to deliver a dose of a drug other than nicotine.]
      (speed skating) Abbreviation of penalty (a scorecard score when a skater is penalized out of their skate). [A legal sentence.]
      (organic chemistry) Abbreviation of polyethylene naphthalate.
      (poetic) A wing.
      (now rare, poetic, dialectal) A feather, especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc.
      verb
      (transitive) To write (an article, a book, etc.).
      (transitive) To enclose in a pen.
      Roots
      pennapen- · Latin · feather
      Synonyms for pen
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      Words related to pen
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