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An enclosure (enclosed area) used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.

sostantivo

  1. 1

    An enclosure (enclosed area) used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.

    There are two steers in the third pen.

  2. 2

    gergoA penitentiary, i.e. a state or federal prison for convicted felons.

    They caught him with a stolen horse, and he wound up in the pen again.

  3. 3

    The bullpen.

    Two righties are up in the pen.

Etimologia

From Middle English pen, penne (“enclosure for animals”), from Old English penn (“enclosure, fold, pen”), from Proto-Germanic *pennō, *pannijō (“pin, bolt, nail, tack”), from Proto-Indo-European *bend- (“pointed peg, nail, edge”). Related to pin. Sense “prison” originally figurative extension to “enclosure for persons” (1845), later influenced by penitentiary (“prison”), being analyzed as an abbreviation (1884).

verbo

  1. 1

    To enclose in a pen.

    Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve.

Etimologia

From Middle English pennen, from Old English *pennian (“to close, lock, bolt”, attested in onpennian (“to open”)), derived from penn (see above). Akin to Low German pennen (“to secure a door with a bolt”).

sostantivo

  1. 1

    A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.

    He took notes with a pen.

    another novel from the pen of everybody's fave thriller writer.

    Please use a pen, not a pencil, when filling out this form. Use black or blue ink only.

  2. 2

    figuratoA writer, or their style.

    He has a sharp pen.

    those learned pens

  3. 3

    Marks of ink left by a pen.

    He's unhappy because he got pen on his new shirt.

  4. 4

    A light pen.

  5. 5

    The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.

    A pen is nothing more complex than a decalcified shell, so one mutation of the genes that controlled calcification could be all it took.

  6. 6

    arcaicoA feather, especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc.

    And eke the pennes, that did his pineons bynd, Were like mayne-yards, with flying canuas lynd, With which whenas him liſt the ayre to beat […]

  7. 7

    A wing.

    but feather'd soon and fledge They summed their pens, and soaring the air sublime

  8. 8

    A syringe-like device for injecting a dose of medication such as insulin or epinephrine. (See Injector pen.)

  9. 9

    Variante di vapor penEllipsis of vapor pen (“electronic cigarette”).

    a dab pen; a wax pen

Etimologia

From Middle English penne, from Anglo-Norman penne, from Old French penne, from Latin penna (“feather”), from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ ~ pth₂én- (“feather, wing”), from *peth₂- (“to rush, fly”, whence petition), root of *petra-, whence Ancient Greek πτερόν (pterón, “wing”, whence pterodactyl), and also of Sanskrit पत्रम् (patram, “wing, feather”), Old Church Slavonic перо (pero, “pen”), Old Norse fjǫðr (“feather”), Old English feþer, feðer (Modern English feather); note the /p/ → /f/ Germanic sound change. Doublet of panne, penna, and pinna. See feather and πέτομαι (pétomai) for more. Not related to pencil.

verbo

  1. 1

    To write (an article, a book, etc.).

    Prying open the crate, you discover a carefully wrapped, handwritten copy of one of Matriarch Dilinaga's treatises. It is unlikely she penned it herself, but the flowing brushwork and intricate watercolor illustrations clearly show the hand of a master scribe.

    His two most recent films are last year's Greyhound, a Hanks-penned World War Two thriller in which he plays a naval commander, and now News of the World, a Western set in the years immediately following the close of the US Civil War, directed by Paul Greengrass, which is premiering around the world on Netflix tomorrow.

    It was in this era, too, that author and Scotland the Brave songwriter Cliff Hanley penned The Glasgow Underground, a tongue-in-cheek love letter to the Subway in song.

  2. 2

    To write or draw on (a surface) with a pen.

    I penned up the walls with obscenities

    Beside it, another wooden table with a guestbook penned with names and addresses.

sostantivo

  1. 1

    A female swan.

Etimologia

Origin uncertain. Compare hen.

sostantivo

  1. 1

    gergoPenalty.

    England won 3-1 on pens.

Etimologia

Clipping of penalty.

sostantivo

  1. 1

    informalePenetration.

Etimologia

Clipping of penetration.

sostantivo

  1. 1

    Anche una forma di panplural of pan

Etimologia

By incorrect analogy with man → men.

Forme

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participio passato
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participio presente
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3ª persona singolare
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Le pagine vicineL'ordine alfabetico segue le regole della lingua, non il valore dei byte: un accento distingue soltanto due parole per il resto identiche, e lo spagnolo tratta la Ñ come una lettera a sé.

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