Pen vs. Pencil

Pennoun

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

Pennoun

(slang) A prison cell.

Pennoun

(baseball) The bullpen.

Pennoun

A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.

Pennoun

(figurative) A writer, or his style.

Pennoun

(colloquial) Marks of ink left by a pen.

Pennoun

A light pen.

Pennoun

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

Pennoun

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

Pennoun

(poetic) A wing.

Pennoun

A female swan.

Pennoun

penalty

Penverb

(transitive) To enclose in a pen.

Penverb

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

Pennoun

A feather.

Pennoun

A wing.

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.

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.

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.

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;

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

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

Pennoun

a number of animals in or sufficient to fill a pen

Pennoun

any small enclosure in which someone or something can be confined

Pennoun

a covered dock for a submarine or other warship

Pennoun

(in the West Indies) a farm or plantation.

Pennoun

a female swan.

Pennoun

short for penitentiary (sense 1)

Penverb

write or compose

Penverb

put or keep (an animal) in a pen

Penverb

confine someone in a restricted space

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.

Pencilnoun

A writing utensil with a graphite (commonly referred to as lead) shaft, usually blended with clay, clad in wood, and sharpened to a taper.

Pencilnoun

(obsolete) A paintbrush.

Pencilnoun

(geometry) A family of geometric objects with a common property, such as the set of lines that pass through a given point in a projective plane.

Pencilnoun

(optics) An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point.

Pencilnoun

A small medicated bougie.

Pencilverb

(transitive) To write (something) using a pencil.

Pencilverb

(transitive) To mark with, or as if with, a pencil.

Pencilnoun

A small, fine brush of hair or bristles used by painters for laying on colors.

Pencilnoun

A slender cylinder or strip of black lead, graphite, colored chalk, slate etc., or such a cylinder or strip inserted in a small wooden rod intended to be pointed, or in a case, which forms a handle, - used for drawing or writing. See Graphite.

Pencilnoun

Hence, figuratively, an artist's ability or peculiar manner; also, in general, the act or occupation of the artist, descriptive writer, etc.

Pencilnoun

An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point.

Pencilnoun

A number of lines that intersect in one point, the point of intersection being called the pencil point.

Pencilnoun

A small medicated bougie.

Pencilverb

To write or mark with a pencil; to paint or to draw.

Pencilnoun

a thin cylindrical pointed writing implement; a rod of marking substance encased in wood

Pencilnoun

graphite (or a similar substance) used in such a way as to be a medium of communication;

Pencilnoun

a figure formed by a set of straight lines or light rays meeting at a point

Pencilnoun

a cosmetic in a long thin stick; designed to be applied to a particular part of the face;

Pencilverb

write, draw, or trace with a pencil;

Pencil

A pencil is an implement for writing or drawing, constructed of a narrow, solid pigment core in a protective casing that prevents the core from being broken or marking the user's hand. Pencils create marks by physical abrasion, leaving a trail of solid core material that adheres to a sheet of paper or other surface.