Pain vs. Pen

Pain vs. Pen — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Pain and Pen

Painnoun

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.

Pennoun

An enclosed area used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.

There are two steers in the third pen.

Painnoun

(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.

Pennoun

(slang) A prison cell.

They caught him with a stolen horse, and he wound up in the pen again.

Painnoun

An annoying person or thing.

Your mother is a right pain.

Pennoun

(baseball) The bullpen.

Two righties are up in the pen.
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Painnoun

Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.

You may not leave this room on pain of death.

Pennoun

A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.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.

Painnoun

Labour; effort; pains.

Pennoun

(figurative) A writer, or his style.

He has a sharp pen.

Painnoun

Any of various breads stuffed with a filling.

gammon pain; Spanish pain

Pennoun

(colloquial) Marks of ink left by a pen.

He's unhappy because he got pen on his new shirt.
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Painverb

(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.

Pennoun

A light pen.

Painverb

(transitive) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.

It pains me to say that I must let you go.

Pennoun

(zoology) The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.

Painverb

To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

Pennoun

A feather, especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc.

Painnoun

a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder;

the patient developed severe pain and distension

Pennoun

(poetic) A wing.

Painnoun

emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid;

the pain of loneliness

Pennoun

A female swan.

Painnoun

a somatic sensation of acute discomfort;

as the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain

Pennoun

penalty

Painnoun

a bothersome annoying person;

that kid is a terrible pain

Penverb

(transitive) To enclose in a pen.

Painnoun

something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness;

washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washera bit of a botherhe's not a friend, he's an infliction

Penverb

(transitive) To write (an article, a book, etc.).

Painverb

cause bodily suffering to

Pennoun

a writing implement with a point from which ink flows

Painverb

cause emotional anguish or make miserable;

It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school

Pennoun

an enclosure for confining livestock

Pennoun

a portable enclosure in which babies may be left to play

Pennoun

a correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes

Pennoun

female swan

Penverb

produce a literary work;

She composed a poemHe wrote four novels