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pen

pen · pens

загін, перо, ручка

перо, загон, ручка, кошара

Feder, Zwinger, Stift, Schreiber

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

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UK/pɛn/US/pɪn/

» Your pen is better than mine.

Dein Stift ist besser als meiner.

Твоя ручка лучше моей.

Твоя ручка лучше, чем моя.

Ваша ручка лучше моей.

Твоя ручка краща, ніж моя.

Твоя ручка краща від моєї.

Meaning

14 senses

An enclosure (enclosed area) used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
There are two steers in the third pen.
Pferch, Zwinger
заго́нzagón, коша́раkošára
загі́нzahín
(slang)A 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.
The bullpen.
Two righties are up in the pen.
A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.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.
Kugelschreiber, Stift, Federhalter
ру́чкаrúčka, автору́чкаavtorúčka, перо́peró
ру́чкаrúčka, перо́peró
(figuratively)A writer, or their style.
He has a sharp pen.
Schreiber, Schreibstil, Feder
перо́peró
(colloquial)Marks of ink left by a pen.
He's unhappy because he got pen on his new shirt.
A light pen.
The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.
(poetic)A wing.
A syringe-like device for injecting a dose of medication such as insulin or epinephrine. (See Injector pen.)
A female swan.
Schwanenweibchen, weiblicher Schwan, Schwänin
лебёдкаlebjódka, лебёдушкаlebjóduška
female swan
(slang)Penalty.
England won 3-1 on pens.

Examples

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Your pen is better than mine.
Твоя ручка краща, ніж моя.
ruТвоя ручка лучше моей.
deDein Stift ist besser als meiner.
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Don't forget to bring a pen.
Не забудь принести ручку.
ruНе забудь принести ручку.
deVergiss nicht, einen Stift mitzubringen!
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Tom handed the pen to Mary.
Том передав ручку Мері.
ruТом подал Мэри ручку.
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Don't forget to return my pen.
Не забудь повернути мені ручку.
ruНе забудь вернуть мою ручку.
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I gave Tom a nice pen.
Я дав Тому гарну ручку.
ruЯ подарил Тому красивую ручку.
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Translations

9 languages

Українська

By meaning 2

enclosure (enclosed area) for animals:

writing tool:

Русский

By meaning 3

enclosure (enclosed area) for animals:

writing tool:

female swan:

Deutsch

By meaning 4

enclosure (enclosed area) for animals:

writing tool:

writer, or their style:

female swan:

Origin

From Middle English pen, penne (“enclosure for animals”), from Old English penn (“enclosur

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.

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.

Origin uncertain. Compare hen.

Clipping of penalty.

Clipping of penetration.

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