Pen vs. Marker — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Pen and Marker
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Pen
A pen is a common writing instrument used to apply ink to a surface, usually paper, for writing or drawing. Historically, reed pens, quill pens, and dip pens were used, with a nib dipped in ink.
Marker
A bookmark.
Pen
An instrument for writing or drawing with ink, typically consisting of a metal nib or ball, or a nylon tip, fitted into a metal or plastic holder.
Marker
A tombstone.
Pen
The tapering cartilaginous internal shell of a squid.
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Marker
A milestone.
Pen
A small enclosure in which sheep, pigs, or other farm animals are kept
A sheep pen
Marker
An implement, especially a felt-tipped pen, used for marking or writing.
Pen
(in the West Indies) a farm or plantation.
Marker
One who marks objects, especially for industrial purposes.
Pen
A female swan.
Marker
One who grades student papers.
Pen
Short for penitentiary (sense 1)
You could get twenty years in a federal pen for shooting your mouth off like that
Marker
A device, such as a line, stake, or flag, set on a playing field and showing the playing or scoring position.
Pen
Write or compose
Olivia penned award-winning poetry
Marker
A player who guards an opponent, as in soccer.
Pen
Put or keep (an animal) in a pen
It was the practice to pen the sheep for clipping
These cattle need to be penned in at night
Marker
An official in certain court games, such as squash, who mainly judges whether the ball is out of play and whether a fault or let has occurred.
Pen
A ballpoint pen.
Marker
One that keeps score in various games.
Pen
A fountain pen.
Marker
A score in a game.
Pen
A pen point.
Marker
(Slang) A written, signed promissory note.
Pen
A penholder and its pen point.
Marker
A genetic marker.
Pen
A quill.
Marker
A biomarker.
Pen
An instrument for writing regarded as a means of expression
"Tyranny has no enemy so formidable as the pen" (William Cobbett).
Marker
(Linguistics) An element that indicates grammatical or semantic class or function, such as an inflectional affix.
Pen
A writer or an author
A hired pen.
Marker
Someone or something that creates marks, particularly
Pen
A style of writing
Wrote plays with a witty pen.
Marker
A felt-tipped pen, a marker pen.
Don't use the permanent marker on the whiteboard.
Pen
A pen-shaped device containing something other than ink
An insulin pen.
A vaporizer pen.
Marker
A scorekeeper, especially one who tallies billiard scores.
Pen
Any of various other pen-shaped devices, such as a laser pointer.
Marker
(paintball) A device that fires a paintball.
Pen
The chitinous internal shell of a squid.
Marker
Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly
Pen
A pen shell.
Marker
A real or virtual objective, something to be aimed for.
Pen
Pens(Archaic) The primary feathers or wings of a bird.
Marker
Synonym of IOU, an informal record of a debt.
Pen
A fenced enclosure for animals.
Marker
(linguistics) A free or bound morpheme indicating a grammatical function.
Pen
The animals kept in such an enclosure.
Marker
(linguistics) discourse marker
Pen
Any of various enclosures, such as a bullpen or playpen, used for a variety of purposes.
Marker
(biology) A gene or DNA sequence with a known location on a chromosome that can be used to identify individuals or species.
Pen
A roofed dock for submarines.
Marker
A substance used as an indicator for diagnosis or other analysis, a biomarker.
Pen
A female swan.
Marker
(military) The soldier who forms the pilot of a wheeling column or marks the direction of an alignment.
Pen
A penitentiary; a prison.
Marker
A sewing machine attachment that creases the fabric to mark a line
Pen
To write or compose
Penned a letter.
Marker
A counter, especially one used in card games.
Pen
To confine in or as if in a pen.
Marker
(UK) Someone who assigns marks on tests, examinations, etc.; a grader.
Pen
An enclosure (enclosed area) used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
There are two steers in the third pen.
Marker
(colloquial) The ink marks or residue of a felt-tipped pen.
Susie got marker all over the walls.
Pen
(slang) 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.
Marker
(figurative) A personal favor owed to someone, whether written or not.
We may not be able to do this alone. Maybe it’s time to call in some of our markers.
Pen
(baseball) The bullpen.
Two righties are up in the pen.
Marker
A formal certification that a company was the first to approach a competition authority to reveal the existence of a cartel, generally entitling it to greater leniency during the cartel's dissolution and punishment.
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.
Marker
(sports) A player on defense used to mark one or more offensive players.
Pen
(figurative) A writer, or their style.
He has a sharp pen.
Marker
(dated) A player employed by a private club to compete against members.
Pen
(colloquial) Marks of ink left by a pen.
He's unhappy because he got pen on his new shirt.
Marker
To mark or write on (something) using a marker
Pen
A light pen.
Marker
One who or that which marks.
Pen
(zoology) The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.
Marker
Some conspicuous object used to distinguish or mark something;
The buoys were markers for the channel
Pen
A feather, especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc.
Marker
A distinguishing symbol;
The owner's mark was on all the sheep
Pen
(poetic) A wing.
Marker
A writing implement for making a mark
Pen
A female swan.
Pen
Penalty.
Pen
(transitive) To enclose in a pen.
Pen
(transitive) To write (an article, a book, etc.).
Pen
A feather.
Pen
A wing.
Pen
An instrument used for writing with ink, formerly made of a reed, or of the quill of a goose or other bird, but now also of other materials, as of steel, gold, etc. Also, originally, a stylus or other instrument for scratching or graving.
Graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock.
Pen
Fig.: A writer, or his style; as, he has a sharp pen.
Pen
The internal shell of a squid.
Pen
A female swan; - contrasted with cob, the male swan.
Pen
A small inclosure; as, a pen for sheep or for pigs.
My father stole two geese out of a pen.
Pen
A penitentiary[6]; a prison.
Pen
To write; to compose and commit to paper; to indite; to compose; as, to pen a sonnet.
Pen
To shut up, as in a pen or cage; to confine in a small inclosure or narrow space; to coop up, or shut in; to inclose.
Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve.
Pen
A writing implement with a point from which ink flows
Pen
An enclosure for confining livestock
Pen
A portable enclosure in which babies may be left to play
Pen
A correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes
Pen
Female swan
Pen
Produce a literary work;
She composed a poem
He wrote four novels
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