(n.) 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.
(n.) Fig.: A writer, or his style; as, he has a sharp pen.
(n.) The internal shell of a squid.
(n.) A female swan.
(v. t.) To write; to compose and commit to paper; to indite; to compose; as, to pen a sonnet.
(n. & v.) 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.
(n.) A small inclosure; as, a pen for sheep or for pigs.
Example Sentences:
(1) Why bother to put the investigators, prosecutors, judge, jury and me through this if one person can set justice aside, with the swipe of a pen.
(2) And if the Brexit vote was somehow not respected by Westminster, Le Pen could be bolstered in her outrage.
(3) Auranofin (AF), D-penicillamine (D-pen) and thiola are prescribed as disease-modifying drugs in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
(4) It’s clear which way the ultra-right community around Ukip wishes to go: their timelines are full of praise for Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders , and blazing with imagery – both real and fake – of migrant riots in France and Sweden.
(5) Superman fans are up in arms at the decision of the publisher to appoint a noted anti-gay writer to pen the Man of Steel's latest adventures.
(6) By moving an electronic pen over a digitizing tablet, the subject could explore a line drawing stored in memory; on the display screen a portion of the drawing appeared to move behind a stationary aperture, in concert with the movement of the pen.
(7) Left ventricular cavity and muscle areas of each image were planimetered with a light-pen system and summated for volume: total volume = sigma (areas x 3 mm).
(8) The integrated sensing system is an ideal instrumental set up for viewing and recording the behaviour of rodents as well as other animals in the experimental pen throughout the year under varying weather and light conditions.
(9) The pullets were housed in battery brooder pens with raised wire floors.
(10) The dogs were housed in gravel-based, outdoor pens with doghouses in a high-altitude, high-sunshine level environment.
(11) There is a simple solution, formulated by English PEN, the Manifesto Club and the Earl of Clancarty, who raised the matter in the Lords earlier this year: remove short-term visits by non-EU artists from the PBS and expand the entertainer route, letting paid and unpaid artists qualify.
(12) In France last year, Marine Le Pen scored 18% in the presidential election and is now powering ahead against François Hollande, while in the Netherlands Geert Wilders' Freedom party is polling at 15%.
(13) With a stroke of his pen, he effectively declared the end of racism in America.
(14) The 27-year-old has put pen to paper on a three-and-a-half-year deal at the Emirates – he will wear the No23 shirt at the club – though confirmation that the deal had been ratified by the Premier League did not come until just before 5pm tonight.
(15) Harnessing its greatest asset – its authors – PEN is planning to publish an open letter to each of the five imprisoned writers every day this week, in the run up to the 33rd annual Day of the Imprisoned Writer on 15 November.
(16) An area on top of a hill near to the spot where Sharon was laid to rest alongside his late wife, Lily, was penned off with crash barriers.
(17) Deaths, 40 on CAZ and 21 on AG+PEN, were mainly related to their underlying condition.
(18) There is a god who protects me, and I just don’t believe Hofer will send me to a concentration camp.” Like Marine Le Pen’s Front National, the Freedom party has actively tried to distance itself from its antisemitic past since at least 2010, when it joined a cross-party alliance in the European parliament with Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom and Italy’s Northern League.
(19) But Ukip is not the NF nor Trump, Nigel Farage is not Le Pen, father, daughter or niece Marion.
(20) I don’t think we should spend too long doing it.” Farage enjoyed support from the far-right French politician and Front National leader, Marine Le Pen , who spoke next.
Sketch
Definition:
(n.) An outline or general delineation of anything; a first rough or incomplete draught or plan of any design; especially, in the fine arts, such a representation of an object or scene as serves the artist's purpose by recording its chief features; also, a preliminary study for an original work.
(n.) To draw the outline or chief features of; to make a rought of.
(n.) To plan or describe by giving the principal points or ideas of.
(v. i.) To make sketches, as of landscapes.
Example Sentences:
(1) The history of tobacco production and marketing is sketched, and the literature on chronic diseases related to smoking is summarized for the Pacific region.
(2) The record includes postoperative drawings of the intraoperative field by Dr. Cushing, a sketch by Dr. McKenzie illustrating the postoperative sensory examination, and pre- and postoperative photographs of the patient.
(3) A philosophy student at Sussex University, he was part of an improvised comedy sketch group and one skit required him to beatbox (making complex drum noises with your mouth).
(4) All the summer deals in graphical, Etch-a-sketch form .
(5) Destiny is an experience we’ve wanted to explore for many years, but maybe didn’t have the bandwidth, the technology, the expertise, the critical mass to get it done.” Art and inspiration While engineers were working on the logistics of constructing one seamless online galaxy for players to explore and meet in, the 14-person concept art team was beginning to sketch out the look of the world.
(6) Saturday Night Live is very much about sketches and impressions – I could do that OK, but I can’t do it as well as they do it.
(7) After spending a good five minutes sketching out the vast scale of the economic and social challenge facing the town, Wright is careful to stress that Hartlepool still has plenty to fuel its inherent optimism.
(8) The series is widely regarded as the first British sitcom, focusing on characters and situations over a single half-hour sketch, rather than stand-up comedy or variety which was then dominant in British radio.
(9) Al Murray In 1988, I was performing in a kids' show and a sketch show with more performers than audience members.
(10) Designs for measuring the short-term and long-term effects are sketched, and suggestions are given for distinguishing between these effects in six representative cases.
(11) A brief historical sketch, tracing the development of the College of Physicians and Surgeons and its library from the Royal charter date of 1754, is presented.
(12) As an accomplished artist and prolific writer his original operative sketches and detailed notes at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (1912-1932) are now being explored as early documentation of this pioneering surgeon's development of a field.
(13) Illustration: Virtual Design Agency As the original sketches were made from sticky tape, the corners of the letters in the final design are missing.
(14) A patient management questionnaire sent to staff physicians and nurses in 183 Oregon nursing homes consisted of eight patient sketches which varied age, mental status, and enjoyment of life.
(15) Each week, Frost's script, the sketches and topical songs would riff on a single theme - for example class, when John Cleese, Corbett and Barker appeared in one of the most famous sketches in the annals of British comedy.
(16) In an ideal typical way the cohorts 1920 and 1930 are sketched.
(17) The introduction sketches the results of earlier studies with local drug injections and selective neurotoxins which provided pharmacological evidence that monoamines can influence food intake and body weight.
(18) Nothing in the process of picture-making can be certain, but it would be reasonable to assume that she sees a young man aged 23 or 24 standing a few feet away with a brush in his hand (such a delicate implement compared with a knife fit for cabbage stalks) and dabbing at a piece of canvas or board which is the picture's preparatory sketch.
(19) Consider their peerless dead parrot sketch which, in many people's memories, ends when Cleese does his huge rant, and Palin grudgingly offers to replace the bird.
(20) "Then I invited Arthur over because we'd written some sketches in Ireland, and we had that 'if one man can do it, why can't another?'