English Dictionary

pen

/pɛn/

noun

A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks. / (figuratively) A writer, or their style.

I need a pen to write this letter.

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A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.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

意味（2）

(figuratively) A writer, or their style.

He has a sharp pen.

意味（3）

(colloquial) Marks of ink left by a pen.

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

意味（4）

A light pen.

意味（5）

(zoology) 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.

意味（6）

(now rare, poetic, dialectal) A 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,

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 […]

意味（7）

(poetic) A wing.

but feather'd soon and fledge

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