pen1 nounpen2 verb
penpen1 /pen/ ●●● S2 noun 
WORD ORIGINpen1
Origin:
1,3 1200-1300 Old French penne ‘feather, pen’, from Latin penna ‘feather’2 Old English penn4 1800-1900 penitentiaryEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a fountain pen
- A good-looking, pre-war pen cost less than a third of its modern cousin, and wrote just as well.
- Expect 1993 to be the year of the pen.
- He threaded the pen back through her fingers, gently.
- I then looked at the boy again, who held his pen out towards me.
- No mere holding pen, this is home for these creatures.
- She also created Write a Senior, a website that links the elderly with pen pals around the world.
- This explains those tiny hillside pens bounded by rock walls.
- We started a lively correspondence with about five pen friends each, scribbling away under the desk in lessons.
WORD SETS
agrarian, adjectiveagribusiness, nounagro-, prefixagro-industry, nounanimal husbandry, nounanimal rights, nounartificial insemination, nounbale, nounbale, verbbarn, nounbarnyard, nounbattery, nounbiotechnology, nounbreadbasket, nounbreed, verbbreeding, nounbroiler, nounbroiler chicken, nounBSE, nounbuckaroo, nounbull, nounbutcher, verbbyre, nouncapon, nouncattleman, nouncattle market, nouncattle prod, nounchaff, nounchicken, nounchicken run, nouncollective farm, nouncoop, nounco-op, nouncorral, nouncorral, verbcowboy, nouncowgirl, nouncowhand, nouncowpoke, nouncreamery, nouncroft, nouncrofter, nouncrofting, nouncultivate, verbcultivation, noundairy, noundairy cattle, noundairy farm, noundairymaid, noundairyman, nounDDT, noundip, verbdip, noundirt farmer, noundrover, noundry-stone wall, noundude ranch, nounDutch barn, nounextensive agriculture, factory farming, nounfallow, adjectivefarm, nounfarm, verbfarmer, nounfarmhand, nounfarmhouse, nounfarming, nounfarmland, nounfarmstead, nounfarmyard, nounfeedstock, nounfield, nounfishery, nounfish farm, nounfish meal, nounflail, verbflail, nounfleece, nounfodder, nounfold, nounfoot and mouth disease, nounforage, nounfowl, nounfree-range, adjectivefungicide, noungamekeeper, noungeld, verbgenetically modified, adjectivegentleman farmer, nounGM, adjectivegoatherd, noungraft, noungraft, verbgranary, noungreenhouse, noungreen revolution, nounGreen Revolution, nounhacienda, nounharrow, nounhatchery, nounhayloft, nounhaymaking, nounhaystack, nounheifer, nounhen house, nounherbicide, nounherd, nounherd, verbherdsman, nounhigh-yield, adjectivehired hand, nounhomestead, nounhomestead, verbhopper, nounhorticulture, nounhusbandry, nounhutch, nouninsecticide, nounintensive agriculture, irrigate, verbJersey, nounkibbutz, nounlamb, verbland agent, nounlasso, nounlasso, verblift, verblitter, nounlivestock, nounlonghorn, nounmad cow disease, nounmanure, nounmeat, nounmerino, nounmilk, nounmilk churn, nounmilking machine, nounmilking parlour, nounmilkmaid, nounmixed farming, nounmower, nounmuck, nounmuckheap, nounnursery, nounoast house, nounorangery, nounorchard, nounorganic, adjectiveorganic farming, paddock, nounpaddy, nounpasturage, nounpasture, nounpasture, verbpastureland, nounpen, nounperpendicular, adjectivepest, nounpesticide, nounpiggery, nounpigpen, nounpigsty, nounpigswill, nounpitchfork, nounplantation, nounplanter, nounplough, nounplough, verbploughboy, nounploughman, nounploughshare, nounpoultry, nounproducer, nounpullet, nounPYO, raise, verbranch, nounrancher, nounranching, nounrange, nounranger, nounrear, verbrick, nounrubber, nounrun, nounrustle, verbscarecrow, nounscythe, nounsharecropper, nounshare-cropper, nounshear, verbshearer, nounsheep-dip, nounsheepdog, nounsheep-pen, nounshepherd, nounshepherdess, nounsickle, nounsilage, nounsilo, nounslaughter, verbslaughterhouse, nounsmallholding, nounsow, verbsow, nounsprayer, nounstable, nounstable, verbstable boy, nounstall, nounstation, nounsteer, nounstock, nounstockbreeder, nounstockman, nounstockyard, nounstubble, nounsty, nounswill, nounswine, nounswineherd, nountenant farmer, nounterrace, nounthresh, verbthreshing machine, nountractor, nountrough, nountruck farm, nountrue, adverbudder, nounvillein, nounvineyard, nounweedkiller, nounweevil, nounwheat, nounwheatgerm, nounwheatmeal, nounwinnow, verbwool, nounwrangler, nounyoke, nounyoke, verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
a pen and ink drawingCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Has anyone seen my pen top?COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
a pen and ink drawing Has anyone seen my pen top?· The man clicked his ballpoint pen, scribbled three characters in an already scribbled margin, and turned the page.· Even the pages of my notebook were soggy to write on, and ballpoint pen sank into the softened surface.
· The cargo's ultimate destination had been printed neatly in black pen in the bottom left-hand corner of the page.· It had been written with a black felt-tip pen on a legal pad that was in the home.· Get the notes typewritten using a new ribbon, or copy them out in black felt tip pen in large capital letters.· Is it a 50 watt bulb that a child's been scribbling on with a black felt tip pen?
NOUN· They each had a big rainbow packet of felt pens, and a Dinky car.· There was a diagram on the screen and a few dried-out felt pens on the wooden ridge under it.· Drawing with thick felt pens is essential for the presentation to be clear.· I solved the problem by adapting a red felt pen.
· Filled it in with his fountain pen.· There is nothing developmental linking the middle childhood years with fountain pens and mismatched socks.· The writer of the best letter each month will be presented with a Montblanc Solitaire fountain pen.· She had to be fed, as well as by me, with a kind of pipette, like a fountain pen filler.· Much of it looks engagingly olde-worlde: cameras disguised as tree branches and hypodermics fitted inside fountain pens.· There are pages devoted to planting explosives in table lamps, garden gates and even fountain pens.· The creation of the modern fountain pen is usually attributed to Lewis E Waterman in the 1880s.· By the Seventies, ballpoints reigned supreme and, once schools allowed their use, the future for fountain pens looked bleak.
· The pens can be fibre-tip, ball-point or ink pens.
· Until this business of the poison pen letter is solved, you need to get away from this house.· This wasn't just about poison pen letters, and bringing her here for her own safety.· Instead he had found the poison pen letter that she intended to send to Jessamy.· Harriet Vane returns to her college for the occasion and finds herself in a maelstrom of obscene graffiti and poison pen letters.· And she didn't think that it was totally connected with the arrival of that poison pen letter this morning.· It had started with the arrival of that poison pen letter, and ended with that kiss.
· I m going to get a marker pen and colour in one side - hey presto, a KeaneKickmaster.· Works in marker pen can be reproduced on colour photocopiers or by printing and need not be displayed themselves.· The other significant variable in marker pen work is the paper type.· There were several red-tipped pins protruding from it and an area of Soho had been ringed in red marker pen.· Beware of marker pens, as their ink tends to seep deeply into the wood.
· Cassandra, appropriately, considering his pen name, was not believed.· Under yet another pen name, Leo starts writing scathing reviews of her own books for a newspaper literary supplement.· It was signed in Charlotte's male pen name.
· Translating email pen pals into the real world of human contact, or even romance, is another matter.· Craig and Johnson met the way practically anyone meets an inmate: They became pen pals.
· Until this business of the poison pen letter is solved, you need to get away from this house.· They had a poison pen in the works.· This wasn't just about poison pen letters, and bringing her here for her own safety.· Instead he had found the poison pen letter that she intended to send to Jessamy.· Harriet Vane returns to her college for the occasion and finds herself in a maelstrom of obscene graffiti and poison pen letters.· And she didn't think that it was totally connected with the arrival of that poison pen letter this morning.· He had the feeling that Berowne was in some trouble deeper and more subtly disturbing than poison pen messages.· It had started with the arrival of that poison pen letter, and ended with that kiss.
· Other questions - did he have a quill pen, and therefore a supply of ink?· Photographed in 1973, Eugene Ionesco happily scribbles away with a feathered quill pen.· Wrote with steel nibs whereas Gustave always used a quill pen.· Holding his bat with the precision of a monk wielding a quill pen, he waited patiently for whatever Mafouz should deliver.· He then wrote, his quill pen scratching a piece of vellum.
· The selected area of a faced sample or hand specimen must be marked with water insoluble felt tip pen before cutting.· Get the notes typewritten using a new ribbon, or copy them out in black felt tip pen in large capital letters.· Is it a 50 watt bulb that a child's been scribbling on with a black felt tip pen?· Mark out brick lines with a felt tip pen.
VERB· Another said they were building a pen for their chickens.· They caught wildfowl for the ever-increasing colony, and built new pens and enclosures for them.
· Couldn't have picked up the pen and opened the notebook and faced the blank page.· Sometimes, without thinking, I almost pick up the pen and start rewriting our campaign literature.· Himmler picked up his pen and started to write again.· She picked up her pen and rested its point on the page.· Every time I pick up my pen I put it down again.· Alternatively pick up a pen and a piece of paper and compose your own speech immediately after reading all these for inspiration.· She picked up a pen and drew a line through the service charge, then handed the bill to the indignant guest.
· So if you are fun-loving and open-minded, put pen to paper.· He then put pen to paper, and soon a stream of adjectives was flowing.· So why not put pen to paper and win a wardrobe of fashions.· I put down the pen, because this would be the great, unforgivable Miltonian sin.· And striker Geoff Ferris is likely to put pen to paper for 12 months.· If you are not writing, put your pen down.· Now, as I put down my pen, I bring the life of unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.· Then Freitag made a faint gesture to his partner, who put away his pen and notebook.
· For the dark lines of bare tree branches Martin uses a pen loaded with paint.· However, Sean performed poorly on tasks that required him to use a pencil or pen to perform copying assignments.· I mean nobody died or anything or used a pen that's also a flame-thrower.· As one ad showed, it allowed you to e-mail from the beach using a pen instead of a keyboard.· Do not use felt-tip pens, especially the strong-smelling ones. me rule here is - if it smells, avoid it.· The president used a different pen to sign each letter of his name.· I've used it for carrying pens - you don't get too many grizzlies or wolves where I live!· Mark the positions of the 20 l.e.d.s on the front of the tie using a pen.
· Much of that writing came from the pens of men and women who never saw the West.· He wrote with her pen and kept the little envelope filled with notes she used to write him by his side.· Examples include the use of electronic forms that recognize information hand-written with an electronic pen.· One of the big changes we had to cope with, was learning to write with pen and ink.· If you are not writing, put your pen down.· It would be written with my pen, you see, if it was that letter.· The Halutzim were busy packing boxes, hammering nails, tying up chests, writing labels with thick pens and pencils.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1[countable, uncountable] an instrument for writing or drawing with ink: - And striker Geoff Ferris is likely to put pen to paper for 12 months.
- Good old-fashioned motives for putting pen to paper.
- He then put pen to paper, and soon a stream of adjectives was flowing.
- I had written a very fine book in my head before arriving, without setting pen to paper.
- I have put pen to paper sparingly, aware that pictures speak louder than words.
- In February of 1942 and again in May of that year he had put pen to paper and logged his past.
- So if you are fun-loving and open-minded, put pen to paper.
- So why not put pen to paper and win a wardrobe of fashions.
- He had made an unfortunate slip of the tongue himself.
- In all the excitement the Registrar, Mrs Molly Croll, suffered a slip of the pen.
- Much of the humour derives from slips of the tongue, an occupational hazard.
- One slip of the tongue would have betrayed all I was working for.
- They both use the same root consonants, which are rearranged as in a dream or a slip of the tongue.
- With a stroke of the pen, the two leaders have cut the number of nuclear weapons in half.
a ballpoint pen a felt-tip penin pen Please fill out the form in pen. a pen and ink drawing2[countable] a small piece of land enclosed by a fence to keep farm animals in: a sheep pen → playpen3put/set pen to paper to begin to write4[countable] American English informal a short form of penitentiary5[countable] British English informal a penalty, used especially when talking about footballpen1 nounpen2 verb
penpen2 verb (past tense and past participle penned, present participle penning) [transitive] VERB TABLE
pen
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | pen |
| he, she, it | pens | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | penned |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have penned |
| he, she, it | has penned | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had penned |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will pen |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have penned |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am penning |
| he, she, it | is penning | |
| you, we, they | are penning | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was penning |
| you, we, they | were penning | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been penning |
| he, she, it | has been penning | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been penning |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be penning |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been penning |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- The flu kept him penned up at home for a week.
- The piece was penned by Mozart when he was eight.
- It's rather like the scene that I penned at the beginning of this column.
- On a different tack, Republican lawmakers have penned bills that would limit welfare benefits to teen moms.
- Others carried head-bundles of leaves and grass for the sheep and goats now penned behind thorn fences beside the houses.
- Rescripts were often penned for a case, and not for the world at large.
- Since his installation as bishop, he was known to personally pen all the letters of real importance to his diocese.
- There are plenty of exceptions, fine songwriters penning protest songs or brooding religious inquiries.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Has anyone seen my pen top?COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
Has anyone seen my pen top?· Though she was not really homesick, penning the letters somehow kept her close.· Since his installation as bishop, he was known to personally pen all the letters of real importance to his diocese.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
literary to write something such as a letter, a book etc, especially using a pen: - He had made an unfortunate slip of the tongue himself.
- In all the excitement the Registrar, Mrs Molly Croll, suffered a slip of the pen.
- Much of the humour derives from slips of the tongue, an occupational hazard.
- One slip of the tongue would have betrayed all I was working for.
- They both use the same root consonants, which are rearranged as in a dream or a slip of the tongue.
- With a stroke of the pen, the two leaders have cut the number of nuclear weapons in half.
a song penned by George Clintonpen somebody/something ↔ up/in phrasal verb1to shut an animal in a small enclosed area2be penned up/in to be restricted or forced to remain in a small place: Norma felt restless and penned in.