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pen

Stift

Definitionen

Englisch > Deutsch
pen
1. Substantiv:
2. [1] der Füller, Schreibstift
3. [2] ein weiblicher Schwan
4. [3] die Strafanstalt
[1] I've lost all my pens.
Ich habe all meine Schreibstifte verloren.
Englisch > Englisch
pen
1. subst. An enclosed area used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
There are two steers in the third pen.
2. subst. (slang) A prison cell.
They caught him with a stolen horse, and he wound up in the pen again.
3. subst. (baseball) The bullpen.
Two righties are up in the pen.
4. v. To enclose in a pen.
5. subst. A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.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.
6. subst. (figurative) A writer, or his style.
He has a sharp pen.
7. subst. (colloquial) Marks of ink left by a pen.
He's unhappy because he got pen on his new shirt.
8. subst. A light pen.
9. subst. (zoology) The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.
10. subst. (now rare, poetic, dialectal) A feather, especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc.
11. subst. (poetic) A wing.
12. v. To write (an article, a book, etc.).
13. subst. A female swan.
14. subst. (soccer, slang) penalty
Deutsch > Englisch
Stift
1. subst. pin (short rod of metal, wood etc., used e.g. for fastening)
(hyponyms, Holzstift, Metallstift, Kunststoffstift)
2. subst. pencil, pen, stylus; (includes all rod-shaped writing implements other than fountain pens, though even these may be included informally)
(hyponyms, Bleistift, Buntstift, Filzstift, Kugelschreiber, Wachsmalstift)
3. subst. (informal, dated) a boy, especially an apprentice
4. subst. endowed monastery
5. subst. secular convent