Pen vs Corral - What's the difference?
pen | corral | Synonyms |
An enclosed area used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
A place to confine a person; a prison cell.
(baseball) The bullpen.
To enclose in a pen.
* Milton
A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.
(figurative) A writer, or his style.
* Fuller
A light pen.
(zoology) The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.
A feather, especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc.
* 1590 , Edmund Spendser, The Faerie Queene , I.xi:
(poetic) A wing.
To write (an article, a book, etc.).
An enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one.
An enclosure or area to concentrate a dispersed group.
A circle of wagons, either for the purpose of trapping livestock, or for defense.
To capture or round up.
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To place inside of a corral.
To make a circle of vehicles, as of wagons so as to form a corral.
Corral is a synonym of pen.
As nouns the difference between pen and corral
is that pen is an enclosed area used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle while corral is an enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one.As verbs the difference between pen and corral
is that pen is to enclose in a pen while corral is to capture or round up.pen
English
(wikipedia pen)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at pin. Sense “prison” originally figurative extension to enclosure for persons (1845), later influenced byNoun
(en noun)- There are two steers in the third pen .
- They caught him with a stolen horse, and he wound up in the pen again.
- Two righties are up in the pen .
Verb
- Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (Modern English (m)); note the /p/ ? /f/ Germanic sound change. See feather and for more.Noun
(en noun)- He took notes with a pen .
- He has a sharp pen .
- those learned pens
- And eke the pennes , that did his pineons bynd, / Were like mayne-yards, with flying canuas lynd, / With which whenas him list the ayre to beat
- (Milton)
Derived terms
* ball pen * ball-point pen * border pen * bull pen * cartridge pen * felt-tip pen * fountain pen * goose pen * lettering pen * pen cancellation * pen feather * pen-mate * penmanship * pen name * pen pal * pen-pusher * poison pen * you don't dip your pen in company inkVerb
(penn)Etymology 3
Origin uncertain.Etymology 4
Shortned form of penaltyReferences
corral
English
Noun
(en noun)- We had a small corral out back where we kept our pet llama.
- Please return the shopping carts to the corral .
- The wagon train formed a corral to protect against Commanche attacks.
