Synonyms of the word pen


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pen

  • n. An enclosed area used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
  • n. A place to confine a person; a prison cell, though likelier an abbreviation of penitentiary.
  • n. (baseball) The bullpen.
  • v. (transitive) To enclose in a pen.
  • n. A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used…
  • n. (figuratively) A writer, or his style.
  • n. (colloquial) Marks of ink left by a pen.
  • n. A light pen.
  • n. (zoology) The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.
  • n. (now rare, poetic, dialectal) A feather, especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc.
  • n. (poetic) A wing.
  • v. (transitive) To write (an article, a book, etc.).
  • n. A female swan.
  • n. penalty.

compose

  • v. (transitive) To make something by merging parts.
  • v. (transitive) To make up the whole; to constitute.
  • v. (transitive, nonstandard) To comprise.
  • v. (transitive or intransitive) To construct by mental labor; to think up; particularly, to produce or create…
  • v. (sometimes reflexive) To calm; to free from agitation.
  • v. To arrange the elements of a photograph or other picture.
  • v. To settle (an argument, dispute etc.); to come to a settlement.
  • v. To arrange in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition.
  • v. (printing, dated) To arrange (types) in a composing stick for printing; to typeset.

enclosure

  • n. (countable) Something enclosed, i.e. inserted into a letter or similar package.
  • n. (uncountable) The act of enclosing, i.e. the insertion or inclusion of an item in a letter or package.
  • n. (countable) An area, domain, or amount of something partially or entirely enclosed by barriers.
  • n. (uncountable) The act of separating and surrounding an area, domain, or amount of something with a barrier.
  • n. (uncountable, British History) The post-feudal process of subdivision of common lands for individual ownership.
  • n. (religion) The area of a convent, monastery, etc where access is restricted to community members.

indite

  • v. (transitive) To physically make letters and words on a writing surface; to inscribe.
  • v. (transitive) To write, especially a literary or artistic work; to compose.
  • v. To dictate; to prompt.
  • v. (obsolete) To invite or ask.
  • v. (obsolete) To indict; to accuse; to censure.
  • n. (mineralogy) An extremely rare indium-iron sulfide mineral.

penitentiary

  • n. (US) A state or federal prison for convicted felons.
  • n. A priest in the Roman Catholic Church who administers the sacrament of penance.
  • n. (obsolete) One who prescribes the rules and measures of penance.
  • n. (obsolete) One who does penance.
  • n. (obsolete) A small building in a monastery, or a part of a church, where penitents confessed.
  • n. (obsolete) An office of the papal court which examines cases of conscience, confession, absolution from…
  • n. (obsolete) An officer in some dioceses since 1215, vested with power from the bishop to absolve in cases…
  • adj. Of or relating to penance; penitential.
  • adj. Of or relating to the punishment of criminals.

playpen

  • n. An enclosure for children to play in.

swan

  • n. Any of various species of large, long-necked waterfowl, of genus Cygnus, most of which have white plumage.
  • n. (figuratively) One whose grace etc. suggests a swan.
  • n. (heraldry) This bird used as a heraldic charge, sometimes with a crown around its neck (e. g. the arms…
  • v. (Britain, intransitive) To travel or move about in an aimless, idle, or pretentiously casual way.
  • v. (US, dialectal or colloquial) To declare (chiefly in first-person present constructions).

write

  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.
  • v. (transitive) To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).
  • v. (transitive) To send written information to.
  • v. (transitive) To show (information, etc) in written form.
  • v. (intransitive) To be an author.
  • v. (computing, intransitive, with to) To record data mechanically or electronically.
  • v. (transitive, South Africa, Canada, of an exam, a document, etc.) To fill in, to complete using words.
  • v. To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave.
  • v. To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; often used reflexively.
  • n. (computing) The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.

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