Texas vs Pen - What's the difference?
texas | pen |
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A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.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.).
As nouns the difference between texas and pen
is that texas is the top-most cabin deck on a steamboat while pen is an enclosed area used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.As a proper noun Texas
is a state of the United States of America. Capital: Austin.As a verb pen is
to enclose in a pen.texas
English
(wikipedia Texas)Synonyms
* Lone Star StateDerived terms
* Tex * Texan * Texarkana * Texas blind snake * Texas cattle fever * Texas fever * Texas hold 'em * Texas mickey * Texas ratio * Texas toast * Texhoma * Tex-Mex * TXSee also
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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)
