Die woord "pen" het veelvuldige betekenisse, afhangende van die konteks. Hier is 'n paar van die mees algemene woordeboekdefinisies van die woord:

1. (selfstandige naamwoord) 'n kort, silindriese stuk hout of metaal wat as 'n hegstuk of ondersteuning gebruik word
2. (werkwoord ) om iets aan te heg of vas te maak deur 'n pen te gebruik
3. (selfstandige naamwoord) 'n punte-eenheid in sommige speletjies, soos cribbage of pyle
4. (werkwoord) om 'n spesifieke vlak of posisie te merk of aan te dui , soos om 'n aandeelprys vas te maak
5. (selfstandige naamwoord) 'n hout- of plastiekpen wat gebruik word om klere aan 'n wasgoeddraad te hang
6. (werkwoord) om iemand se aktiwiteite te beperk of te beperk, gewoonlik deur reëls af te dwing of regulasies
7. (selfstandige naamwoord) 'n neerhalende term vir 'n ongewilde of onaantreklike persoon

Hierdie is net 'n paar voorbeelde, en daar kan ander betekenisse wees afhangende van die spesifieke konteks waarin die woord gebruik word.

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1. Driving a peg, with great nicety, into the ground, at the precise spot where the beetle fell, my friend now produced from his pocket a tape measure.

2. At the spot thus attained a second peg was driven, and about this, as a centre, a rude circle, about four feet in diameter, described.

3. Taking, now, the tape measure from the nearest point of the trunk to the peg, as before, and continuing the extension in a straight line to the distance of fifty feet, a spot was indicated, removed, by several yards, from the point at which we had been digging.

4. You must know, too, that Malambruno told me that, whenever fate provided the knight our deliverer, he himself would send him a steed far better and with less tricks than a post-horse for he will be that same wooden horse on which the valiant Pierres carried off the fair Magalona which said horse is guided by a peg he has in his forehead that serves for a bridle, and flies through the air with such rapidity that you would fancy the very devils were carrying him.

5. She glanced inquiringly at Commander Howitz as she pulled an apron off a metal peg just inside the door.

6. Then I pulled my uniform jacket off a metal peg on the wall.

7. When I got there, I saw that the Doctor had stood up and was taking his jacket off a peg on the wall.

8. Out came a mirror, which she hung from a peg on the wall.

9. I grabbed my kinnor from its peg by the door on my way out its broken string dangled dead at my side.

10. The wind gushed into his full sail, and the sheet he had secured with a single loop on a peg within his reach slipped loose.