Pen vs. Neb — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Pen and Neb
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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.
Neb
A beak of a bird.
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.
Neb
A nose or snout.
Pen
The tapering cartilaginous internal shell of a squid.
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Neb
A projecting part, especially a nib.
Pen
A small enclosure in which sheep, pigs, or other farm animals are kept
A sheep pen
Neb
A bird's beak or bill.
Pen
(in the West Indies) a farm or plantation.
Neb
(obsolete) A person's mouth.
Pen
A female swan.
Neb
A person's nose.
Pen
Short for penitentiary (sense 1)
You could get twenty years in a federal pen for shooting your mouth off like that
Neb
The peak of a flat cap.
Pen
Write or compose
Olivia penned award-winning poetry
Neb
The nose or snout of an animal, now especially of a fish.
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
Neb
A projecting extremity; a point or sharp projection.
Pen
A ballpoint pen.
Neb
A nib, as of a pen.
Pen
A fountain pen.
Neb
The nose; the snout; the mouth; the beak of a bird; a nib, as of a pen.
Pen
A pen point.
Neb
A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head; especially the nose
Pen
A penholder and its pen point.
Neb
Horny projecting mouth of a bird
Pen
A quill.
Pen
An instrument for writing regarded as a means of expression
"Tyranny has no enemy so formidable as the pen" (William Cobbett).
Pen
A writer or an author
A hired pen.
Pen
A style of writing
Wrote plays with a witty pen.
Pen
A pen-shaped device containing something other than ink
An insulin pen.
A vaporizer pen.
Pen
Any of various other pen-shaped devices, such as a laser pointer.
Pen
The chitinous internal shell of a squid.
Pen
A pen shell.
Pen
Pens(Archaic) The primary feathers or wings of a bird.
Pen
A fenced enclosure for animals.
Pen
The animals kept in such an enclosure.
Pen
Any of various enclosures, such as a bullpen or playpen, used for a variety of purposes.
Pen
A roofed dock for submarines.
Pen
A female swan.
Pen
A penitentiary; a prison.
Pen
To write or compose
Penned a letter.
Pen
To confine in or as if in a pen.
Pen
An enclosure (enclosed area) used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
There are two steers in the third pen.
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.
Pen
(baseball) The bullpen.
Two righties are up in the pen.
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.
Pen
(figurative) A writer, or their style.
He has a sharp pen.
Pen
(colloquial) Marks of ink left by a pen.
He's unhappy because he got pen on his new shirt.
Pen
A light pen.
Pen
(zoology) The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.
Pen
A feather, especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc.
Pen
(poetic) A wing.
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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