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Pen vs Marker - What's the difference?

pen | marker |

As nouns the difference between pen and marker

is that pen is an enclosed area used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle while marker is an object used to mark a location.

As verbs the difference between pen and marker

is that pen is to enclose in a pen while marker is to mark or write on (something) using a marker.

pen

English

(wikipedia pen)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) . More at pin. Sense “prison” originally figurative extension to enclosure for persons (1845), later influenced by

Noun

(en noun)
  • An enclosed area used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
    • There are two steers in the third pen .
  • A place to confine a person; a prison cell.
    • They caught him with a stolen horse, and he wound up in the pen again.
  • (baseball) The bullpen.
    • Two righties are up in the pen .

    Verb

  • To enclose in a pen.
  • * Milton
    • 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)
  • A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.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 .
  • (figurative) A writer, or his style.
    • He has a sharp pen .
  • * Fuller
    • those learned pens
  • 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:
    • 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
  • (poetic) A wing.
    • (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 ink

    Verb

    (penn)
  • To write (an article, a book, etc.).

    • Etymology 3

    Origin uncertain.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A female swan.

    • Etymology 4

    Shortned form of penalty

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • penalty

    • References

    Anagrams

    * English three-letter words 1000 English basic words ----

    marker

    English

    (wikipedia marker)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An object used to mark a location.
  • Someone or something that marks.
  • # One who keeps account of a game played, as of billiards.
  • # A counter used in card games and other games.
  • # The soldier who forms the pilot of a wheeling column, or marks the direction of an alignment.
  • # An attachment to a sewing machine for marking a line on the fabric by creasing it.
  • * 2013 , Phil McNulty, " Man City 4-1 Man Utd", BBC Sport , 22 September 2013:
    • Pellegrini insisted this was a game City had to win - this they did and with the sort of performance that put down a marker for how the Chilean wants his team to play.
  • A felt-tipped pen.
  • (slang) A signed note of a debt to be paid.
  • (slang, figuratively) A nonmonetary debt owed to someone, especially in return for a favor.
    • We may not be able to do this alone. Maybe it’s time to call in some of our markers .
  • (paintball) A device that fires a paintball
  • (sports) A defending player who stays close to an opponent in order to mark them.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 21 , author=Jonathan Jurejko , title=Newcastle 3-0 Stoke , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=He skipped past Marc Wilson before clipping a delicious cross into the Stoke danger zone, where Cisse's sharp movement allowed him to escape marker Robert Huth and send a far-post header crashing against the crossbar. And Cabaye was waiting to pounce on the rebound with a close range header.}}
  • A gene or DNA sequence with a known location on a chromosome that can be used to identify individuals or species.
  • (In competition law) A recognition given by a competition authority that a company is the first to approach it to reveal the existence of a cartel, as a prelude to a formal application for leniency for the company.

    • Synonyms

    * (felt-tipped pen) marker pen

    Derived terms

    * biomarker * discourse marker * magic marker * man marker / man-marker * marker bed * marker gene * on-time marker * permanent marker * whiteboard marker

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To mark or write on (something) using a
  • * {{quote-news, year=2002, date=July 5, author=Mike Sula, title=Everything Must Go, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=On one page someone has markered : "Remember, you are your own best thing." }}

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