pen

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An enclosure (enclosed area) used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
    — There are two steers in the third pen.
  2. plural of pan form-of,humorous,plural,uncountable
  3. Penetration. informal
  4. A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.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.
  5. Penalty. slang
    — England won 3-1 on pens.
  6. A female swan.
  7. A penitentiary, i.e. a state or federal prison for convicted felons. slang
    — They caught him with a stolen horse, and he wound up in the pen again.
  8. A writer, or their style. figuratively
    — He has a sharp pen.
  9. Marks of ink left by a pen. colloquial
    — He's unhappy because he got pen on his new shirt.
  10. The bullpen.
    — Two righties are up in the pen.
  11. A light pen.
  12. 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.
  13. A feather, especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc. archaic,dialectal,poetic
    — 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 […]
  14. A wing. poetic
    — but feather'd soon and fledge They summed their pens, and soaring the air sublime
  15. A syringe-like device for injecting a dose of medication such as insulin or epinephrine. (See Injector pen.)
    — "I'm sure she had more than one EpiPen […]" "But she didn't have one when she got stung or she'd have used it." By all appearances, Mariah died in the woods, […] If she managed to grab the pen found under her leg from her bag or pocket, she never discharged it. But Crystal doesn't have these details. "Doesn't it make sense that she kept an extra pen in her cupboard, and one in her bag? The extra pen fell out, is all."
  16. Ellipsis of vapor pen (“electronic cigarette”). abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis
    — a dab pen; a wax pen
动词 v.
  1. To write (an article, a book, etc.). transitive
    — 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.
  2. To enclose in a pen. transitive
    — Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve.

词形变化

pens plural pens present,singular,third-person penning participle,present penned participle,past penned past pent participle,past pent past pens plural pens present,singular,third-person penning participle,present penned participle,past penned past pens plural pens plural pens plural

词汇关系

近义词
biro pen
上位词
stationery
下位词
ballpoint pen cartridge pen felt-tip pen fountain pen ruling pen
衍生词
blast pen bullpen cattle pen cowpen crush pen henpen hogpen impen penkeeper penkeeping Pen Mill pennage pentrough pigpen playpen potato pen shuck pen unpen goose-pen 3D pen ball pen ball-point pen beard pen border pen bow pen brush pen bull pen cartridge pen conductive pen dab pen dip one's pen in someone's inkwell dip pen don't dip your pen in company ink electric pen EpiPen eraser pen feather pen felt pen felt-tipped pen felt-tip pen fountain pen fude-pen fude pen gel pen geometric pen glass dip pen glass pen goose pen ink pen J pen judge's pen keelyvine pen knight of the pen laser pen lettering pen marker pen marking pen music pen nib pen pen and ink pen-and-ink money pen-and-paper pen and paper pen-and-wash pen cancellation pencase pencentric pencraft pendom pen drive pen-driver pen feather penfish penfold penfriend penful pen gun penholder penjamin penknife penless pen licence penlight penlike penlite penmaker penmaking penman penmanship pen-mate pen name pen painting pen pal pen pencil penperson pen picture penpoint pen portrait pen-pusher penrack pen register pen shell penship pen spinning penster penstroke pentail pen-tailed treeshrew pentel pentel pen penthusiasm penthusiast pentop pen torch penwiper penwoman penwork poison pen poison-pen letter put pen to paper pyropen quill pen reed pen robo-pen ruling pen sea pen set pen to paper shading pen slip of the pen smartpen stylographic pen tactical pen technical pen the pen is mightier than the sword touch pen vape pen vapor pen veto pen you don't dip your pen in company ink you don't dip your pen in the company inkwell you don't dip your pen in the company's ink you don't dip your pen in the inkwell
相关词
pin prison

词源

词源 1
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).
词源 2
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”).
词源 3
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, 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.
词源 4
Origin uncertain. Compare hen.
词源 5
Clipping of penalty.
词源 6
Clipping of penetration.
词源 7
By incorrect analogy with man → men.
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