The difference between Pen and Write
When used as nouns, pen means an enclosed area used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle, whereas write means the operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.
When used as verbs, pen means to enclose in a pen, whereas write means to form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.
check bellow for the other definitions of Pen and Write
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Pen as a noun:
An enclosed area used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
Examples:
"There are two steers in the third pen."
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Pen as a noun (slang):
A prison cell.
Examples:
"They caught him with a stolen horse, and he wound up in the pen again."
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Pen as a noun (baseball):
The bullpen.
Examples:
"Two righties are up in the pen."
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Pen as a verb (transitive):
To enclose in a pen.
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Pen as a noun:
A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.
Examples:
"He took notes with a pen."
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Pen as a noun (figurative):
A writer, or his style.
Examples:
"He has a sharp pen."
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Pen as a noun (colloquial):
Marks of ink left by a pen.
Examples:
"He's unhappy because he got pen on his new shirt."
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Pen as a noun:
A light pen.
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Pen as a noun (zoology):
The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.
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Pen as a noun (now, rare, poetic, dialectal):
A feather, especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc.
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Pen as a noun (poetic):
A wing.
Examples:
"rfquotek Milton"
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Pen as a verb (transitive):
To write (an article, a book, etc.).
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Pen as a noun:
A female swan.
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Pen as a noun (soccer, slang):
penalty
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Write as a verb (ambitransitive):
To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.
Examples:
"The pupil wrote his name on the paper."
"Your son has been writing on the wall."
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Write as a verb (transitive):
To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).
Examples:
"My uncle writes newspaper articles for The Herald."
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Write as a verb (transitive):
To send written information to.
Examples:
"(UK) Please write to me when you get there."
"(US) Please write me when you get there."
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Write as a verb (transitive):
To show (information, etc) in written form.
Examples:
"The due day of the homework is written in the syllabus."
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Write as a verb (intransitive):
To be an author.
Examples:
"I write for a living."
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Write as a verb (computing, intransitive, with {{m, to):
}} To record data mechanically or electronically.
Examples:
"The computer writes to the disk faster than it [[reads]] from it."
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Write as a verb (transitive, South Africa, Canada, of an exam, a document, etc.):
To fill in, to complete using words.
Examples:
"I was very anxious to know my score after I wrote the test."
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Write as a verb:
To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave.
Examples:
"truth written on the heart"
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Write as a verb:
To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; often used reflexively.
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Write as a noun (computing):
The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.
Examples:
"How many writes per second can this hard disk handle?"