pen A pen is a common writing instrument that applies ink to a surface, usually paper, for writing or drawing. Early pens such as reed pens, quill pens, dip pens and ruling pens held a small amount of ink on a nib or in a small void or cavity whic ...

is a writing instrument which applies ink to a surface, usually paper. Pen may also refer to:

Animals and animal husbandry

Pen (enclosure) A pen is an enclosure for holding livestock. It may also perhaps be used as a term for an enclosure for other animals such as pets that are unwanted inside the house. The term describes types of enclosures that may confine one or many animal ...

, enclosure for holding animals * Pen, an adult female

swan Swans are birds of the family (biology), family Anatidae within the genus ''Cygnus''. The swans' closest relatives include the goose, geese and ducks. Swans are grouped with the closely related geese in the subfamily Anserinae where they form t ...

Gladius (cephalopod) The gladius (plural: ''gladii''), or pen, is a hard internal bodypart found in many cephalopods of the superorder Decapodiformes (particularly squids) and in a single extant member of the Octopodiformes, the vampire squid (''Vampyroteuthis inferna ...

, or pen, a hard internal bodypart found in certain cephalopods * Pen (Jamaican cattle farm), a historic livestock farm on the Island of Jamaica *

Sea pen Sea pens are colonial marine cnidarians belonging to the order Pennatulacea. There are 14 families within the order; 35 extant genera, and it is estimated that of 450 described species, around 200 are valid. Sea pens have a cosmo ...

, an order of Cnidarians in the class Octocorallia

People

Jan Pen Jan Pen (15 February 1921 in Lemmer – 14 February 2010 in Haren, Groningen, Haren) was a Dutch economist, professor and columnist. He is author of several books on economics. Life and work Pen studied at the University of Amsterdam, where in 19 ...

(1921–2010), Dutch economist * Luke Pen (1960–2002), Australian biologist and environmental scientist * Ue-Li Pen (born 1967), Canadian astrophysicist *

Yehuda Pen Yehuda Pen, also known as Yuri Pen ( yi, יודל פּען – ''Yudl Pen''; 5 June 1854 – 1 March 1937), was a Russian and Soviet Jewish painter and art teacher. He was a major figure of the Jewish Renaissance in Russian and Belarusian art at ...

(1854–1937), Lithuanian Jewish painter and art teacher

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Bullpen In baseball, the bullpen (or simply the pen) is the area where relief pitchers warm up before entering a game. A team's roster of relief pitchers is also metonymically referred to as "the bullpen". These pitchers usually wait in the bullpen if t ...

, an area at a baseball field where relief pitchers warm up *

Pen, India Pen (Marathi pronunciation: Help:IPA/Marathi, eːɳ is a town and taluka in Raigad district of Indian States and territories of India, state of Maharashtra. It is well known for world class Ganesh idols. It is the geographical and cultural c ...

, a place * Pen (play), by David Marshall Grant * "

The Pen "The Pen" is the 20th episode of ''Seinfeld'', the third episode of the third season which first aired on October 2, 1991. This is the only episode in which the character of George Costanza does not appear and one of two episodes in which Kra ...

", an episode of ''Seinfeld'' *

Autoinjector An autoinjector (or auto-injector) is a medical device designed to deliver a dose of a particular drug. The injectors were initially designed to overcome the hesitation associated with self-administration of the needle-based drug delivery device ...

pen, a medical device to deliver a dose of a drug **

Insulin pen An injector pen (also called a medication pen) is a device used for injecting medication under the skin. First introduced in the 1980s, injector pens are designed to make injectable medication easier and more convenient to use, thus increasing ...

Olympus Pen The Pen, or PEN series is a brand of Olympus. It was used on analog half-frame compact and SLR models from 1959 until the early 1980s. In 2009, Olympus released the PEN E-P1, a digital mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera, which opened the range ...

, a camera *

Submarine pen A submarine pen (''U-Boot-Bunker'' in German) is a type of submarine base that acts as a bunker to protect submarines from air attack. The term is generally applied to submarine bases constructed during World War II, particularly in Germany and ...

, a type of submarine base * T-Mobile Park#The 'Pen, a spectator area in Seattle

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