Pen vs Shut - What's the difference?
pen | shut | 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A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.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.).
To close, to stop from being open.
To close, to stop being open.
(transitive, or, intransitive, chiefly, British) To close a business temporarily, or (of a business) to be closed.
To preclude; to exclude; to bar out.
* Dryden
closed
The act or time of shutting; close.
* Milton
A door or cover; a shutter.
The line or place where two pieces of metal are welded together.
A narrow alley]] or [[passageway, passage acting as a short cut through the buildings between two streets.
Pen is a synonym of shut.
As a symbol pen
is peruvian nuevo sol.As a verb shut is
to close, to stop from being open.As an adjective shut is
closed.As a noun shut is
the act or time of shutting; close or shut can be a narrow alley]] or [[passageway|passage acting as a short cut through the buildings between two streets.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
shut
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) shutten, shetten, from (etyl) .Verb
- Please shut the door.
- The light was so bright I had to shut my eyes.
- If you wait too long, the automatic door will shut .
- The pharmacy is shut on Sunday.
- shut from every shore
Usage notes
Except when part of one of the derived terms listed below, almost every use of shut'' can be replaced by ''close''. The reverse is not true -- there are many uses of ''close'' that cannot be replaced by ''shut .Derived terms
(phrasal verbs derived from shut) * shut away * shut down * shut in * shut off * shut out * shut up (single words and compounds derived from shut) * shutdown, shut-down * shut-eye * shut-in * shutout, shut-out * shutter (idioms derived from shut) * open and shut * shut one's eyes to * shut the door on * shut up shop * shut your face * shut your mouth * shut your trapAdjective
(-)Noun
(en noun)- the shut of a door
- Just then returned at shut of evening flowers.
- (Sir Isaac Newton)