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# pen

«pen» in Mova's school dictionary: **a tool for writing or drawing with ink** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (pen, pens); verb (pen, pens, penned, penning)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A pen is a tool for writing or drawing with ink. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pen/#m1)

2) A pen is also a small fenced place for animals, like a sheep pen or pig pen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pen/#m2)

3) To pen is to write: «she penned a letter». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pen/#m3)

4) To pen in animals is to shut them in a pen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pen/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: a thing counted or bought; price per pen; also an animal pen (count the animals inside; fence around it is a perimeter). In school: «write in pen, not pencil». In farming: sheep pens, pig pens. In stories: a pen pal is a friend you write letters to.

### examples

- She has 8 pens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pen/#x1)
- Each pen costs 2 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pen/#x2)
- The pigs are in a pen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pen/#x3)
- The pen has 4 sheep in it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pen/#x4)
- Please write your name in blue pen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pen/#x5)
- My pen ran out of ink. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pen/#x6)
- The farmer built a pen for the lambs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pen/#x7)
- I have a pen pal in New Zealand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pen/#x8)
- She penned a short poem. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pen/#x9)

### note

A thing counted. Price per pen is a rate. Trap: a «pen» for animals is a place; count the animals inside. The fence around a pen is its perimeter. «Pen» and «pencil» are different: ink cannot be rubbed out.

### In the corpora

- [Sheepdog trials are real competitions where dog and shepherd move sheep through gates and into a pen.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs/14/)
- [Fish come from the wild sea or from fish farms, like the round floating net pens in Scottish lochs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly/7/)
- [Many schools use a special pen colour, often purple or green, for edits, so the teacher can see the improvements.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/43-editing-and-redrafting/8/)
- [People with a serious sting allergy may carry an adrenaline pen, such as an EpiPen, given into the outer thigh.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/24-bees-and-wasps/15/)
- [Do not climb into pens or fields with animals unless the farmer says you may.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/28-farm-animals-and-horses/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pen» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pen/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.