Pain vs. Pen: What's the Difference?
Pain and Pen Definitions
Pain
An unpleasant feeling occurring as a result of injury or disease, usually localized in some part of the body
Felt pains in his chest.
Pen
A ballpoint pen.
Pain
Bodily suffering characterized by such feelings
Drugs to treat pain.
Pen
A fountain pen.
Pain
Mental or emotional suffering; distress.
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Pen
A pen point.
Pain
An instance of this
The pains of humiliation.
Pen
A penholder and its pen point.
Pain
Pains The pangs of childbirth.
Pen
A quill.
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Pain
Pains Great care or effort
Taking pains with one's work.
Pen
An instrument for writing regarded as a means of expression
"Tyranny has no enemy so formidable as the pen" (William Cobbett).
Pain
(Informal) A source of annoyance; a nuisance
Stuffing all these envelopes is a real pain.
Pen
A writer or an author
A hired pen.
Pain
To cause physical pain to; hurt
My feet really pained me after the hike.
Pen
A style of writing
Wrote plays with a witty pen.
Pain
To cause mental or emotional distress to
"It pained him to remember every little thing about her" (John Irving).
Pen
A pen-shaped device containing something other than ink
An insulin pen.
A vaporizer pen.
Pain
An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.
The greatest difficulty lies in treating patients with chronic pain.
I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet.
Pen
Any of various other pen-shaped devices, such as a laser pointer.
Pain
(uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress
In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life.
The pain of departure was difficult to bear.
Pen
The chitinous internal shell of a squid.
Pain
An annoying person or thing.
Your mother is a right pain.
Pen
A pen shell.
Pain
Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
You may not leave this room on pain of death.
Pen
Pens(Archaic) The primary feathers or wings of a bird.
Pain
Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.
Pen
A fenced enclosure for animals.
Pain
Any of various breads stuffed with a filling.
Gammon pain; Spanish pain
Pen
The animals kept in such an enclosure.
Pain
(transitive) To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
The wound pained him.
Pen
Any of various enclosures, such as a bullpen or playpen, used for a variety of purposes.
Pain
(transitive) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
It pains me to say that I must let you go.
Pen
A roofed dock for submarines.
Pain
To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
Pen
A female swan.
Pain
To feel pain; to hurt.
Please help me, I am paining hard.
Pen
A penitentiary; a prison.
Pain
Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.
We will, by way of mulct or pain, lay it upon him.
Interpose, on pain of my displeasure.
None shall presume to fly, under pain of death.
Pen
To write or compose
Penned a letter.
Pain
Any uneasy sensation in animal bodies, from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; bodily distress; bodily suffering; an ache; a smart.
Pen
To confine in or as if in a pen.
Pain
Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth.
She bowed herself and travailed, for her pains came upon her.
Pen
An enclosure (enclosed area) used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
There are two steers in the third pen.
Pain
Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish. Also called mental pain.
In rapture as in pain.
Pen
(slang) Penitentiary, i.e. a state or federal prison for convicted felons.
They caught him with a stolen horse, and he wound up in the pen again.
Pain
See Pains, labor, effort.
Pen
(baseball) The bullpen.
Two righties are up in the pen.
Pain
To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
Pen
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.
Pain
To put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture; as, his dinner or his wound pained him; his stomach pained him.
Excess of cold, as well as heat, pains us.
Pen
(figurative) A writer, or their style.
He has a sharp pen.
Pain
To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as, a child's faults pain his parents.
I am pained at my very heart.
Pen
(colloquial) Marks of ink left by a pen.
He's unhappy because he got pen on his new shirt.
Pain
A symptom of some physical hurt or disorder;
The patient developed severe pain and distension
Pen
A light pen.
Pain
Emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid;
The pain of loneliness
Pen
(zoology) The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.
Pain
A somatic sensation of acute discomfort;
As the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain
Pen
A feather, especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc.
Pain
A bothersome annoying person;
That kid is a terrible pain
Pen
(poetic) A wing.
Pain
Something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness;
Washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washer
A bit of a bother
He's not a friend, he's an infliction
Pen
A female swan.
Pain
Cause bodily suffering to
Pen
Penalty.
Pain
Cause emotional anguish or make miserable;
It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school
Pen
(transitive) To enclose in a pen.
Pen
(transitive) To write (an article, a book, etc.).
Pen
A feather.
Pen
A wing.
Pen
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.
Graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock.
Pen
Fig.: A writer, or his style; as, he has a sharp pen.
Pen
The internal shell of a squid.
Pen
A female swan; - contrasted with cob, the male swan.
Pen
A small inclosure; as, a pen for sheep or for pigs.
My father stole two geese out of a pen.
Pen
A penitentiary[6]; a prison.
Pen
To write; to compose and commit to paper; to indite; to compose; as, to pen a sonnet.
Pen
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.
Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve.
Pen
A writing implement with a point from which ink flows
Pen
An enclosure for confining livestock
Pen
A portable enclosure in which babies may be left to play
Pen
A correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes
Pen
Female swan
Pen
Produce a literary work;
She composed a poem
He wrote four novels
