Pen vs. Stylus

Pennoun

An enclosed area used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.

‘There are two steers in the third pen.’;

Stylusnoun

A sharp stick used in ancient times for writing in clay tablets or other surfaces; a sharp tool for engraving.

Pennoun

(slang) A prison cell.

‘They caught him with a stolen horse, and he wound up in the pen again.’;

Stylusnoun

A phonograph needle.

Pennoun

(baseball) The bullpen.

‘Two righties are up in the pen.’;

Stylusnoun

A small plastic stick used as a pen for writing on the touch-sensitive screen of an electronic device.

Pennoun

A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.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

Stylusnoun

A tool for making small dots on a piece of heavy paper, used to produce Braille writing for the blind by hand.

Pennoun

(figurative) A writer, or his style.

‘He has a sharp pen.’;

Stylusnoun

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Pennoun

(colloquial) Marks of ink left by a pen.

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

Stylusnoun

An instrument for writing. See Style, n., 1.

Pennoun

A light pen.

Stylusnoun

That needle-shaped part at the tip of the playing arm of phonograph which sits in the groove of a phonograph record while it is turning, to detect the undulations in the phonograph groove and convert them into vibrations which are transmitted to a system (since 1920 electronic) which converts the signal into sound; also called needle. The stylus is frequently composed of a hard metal or of diamond.

Pennoun

(zoology) The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.

Stylusnoun

The needle-like device used to cut the grooves which record the sound on the original disc during recording of a phonograph record; it is moved by the vibrations given to the diaphragm by a sound, and produces the indented record.

Pennoun

A feather, especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc.

Stylusnoun

A pen-shaped pointing device used to specify the cursor position on a graphics tablet.

Pennoun

(poetic) A wing.

Stylusnoun

a sharp pointed device attached to the cartridge of a record player

Pennoun

A female swan.

Stylusnoun

a pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving;

‘he drew the design on the stencil with a steel stylus’;

Pennoun

penalty

Stylusnoun

a hard point, typically of diamond or sapphire, following a groove in a record and transmitting the recorded sound for reproduction.

Penverb

(transitive) To enclose in a pen.

Stylusnoun

a pointed device formerly used to produce a groove in a record when recording sound.

Penverb

(transitive) To write (an article, a book, etc.).

Stylusnoun

an ancient writing implement, consisting of a small rod with a pointed end for scratching letters on wax-covered tablets, and a blunt end for obliterating them.

Pennoun

A feather.

Stylusnoun

a small implement with a pointed end used for engraving and tracing.

Pennoun

A wing.

Stylusnoun

a device resembling a pen, used to input handwritten text or drawings directly into a computer.

Pennoun

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.’;

Stylus

A stylus (plural styli or styluses) is a writing utensil or a small tool for some other form of marking or shaping, for example, in pottery. It can also be a computer accessory that is used to assist in navigating or providing more precision when using touchscreens.

Pennoun

Fig.: A writer, or his style; as, he has a sharp pen.

Pennoun

The internal shell of a squid.

Pennoun

A female swan; - contrasted with cob, the male swan.

Pennoun

A small inclosure; as, a pen for sheep or for pigs.

‘My father stole two geese out of a pen.’;

Pennoun

A penitentiary[6]; a prison.

Penverb

To write; to compose and commit to paper; to indite; to compose; as, to pen a sonnet.

Penverb

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.’;

Pennoun

a writing implement with a point from which ink flows

Pennoun

an enclosure for confining livestock

Pennoun

a portable enclosure in which babies may be left to play

Pennoun

a correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes

Pennoun

female swan

Penverb

produce a literary work;

‘She composed a poem’; ‘He wrote four novels’;

Pennoun

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.

Pennoun

the occupation of writing

‘she was forced to support herself by the pen’;

Pennoun

an electronic device like a pen, used in conjunction with a writing surface to enter commands or data into a computer.

Pennoun

the tapering cartilaginous internal shell of a squid.

Pennoun

a small enclosure in which sheep, pigs, or other farm animals are kept

‘a sheep pen’;

Pennoun

a number of animals in or sufficient to fill a pen

‘a pen of twenty-five Cheviots’;

Pennoun

any small enclosure in which someone or something can be confined

‘she took the baby out of the pen and played with it’;

Pennoun

a covered dock for a submarine or other warship

‘U-boat pens’;

Pennoun

(in the West Indies) a farm or plantation.

Pennoun

a female swan.

Pennoun

short for penitentiary (sense 1)

‘you could get twenty years in a federal pen for shooting your mouth off like that’;

Penverb

write or compose

‘Olivia penned award-winning poetry’;

Penverb

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’;

Penverb

confine someone in a restricted space

‘they had been penned up day and night in the house’;

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.