pen
The pen (plural: the pens , from ahd. Steft "sting", "thorn") stands for:
- Writing pen or drawing pen , a writing and drawing implement
- Cleaning pen, a tool for cleaning in the form of a pen
- Input pen , input device of a computer
- a nail without a head or with a swaged head , d. H. an elongated, sharpened metal or wooden pin, the head of which hardly or not at all protrudes from the shaft
- Pin (mechanical engineering) , cylindrical or conical machine element that connects, centers or secures machine parts
- Contact pin, part of a connector
- the hard end of a shoelace, see laces
- Trainee (colloquial)
- little boy (colloquial)
- Pen , the egg of the queen bee, see Queen bee # origination
The stylus (plural: the pins , rare: the founders , of cause "bequeath") stands for:
- an institution going back to a foundation , e.g. B. Hospital, school, retirement home
- Short for Hochstift , a spiritual territory in the Holy Roman Empire
- Stift (church) , a corporation with a foundation (mostly real estate) in the area of the church (in Austria many monasteries are called Stift )
- Frauenstift , a religious community for women who live in a monastery-like complex without taking vows
- Stiftsgymnasium or Stiftsschule, an educational institution based on a foundation
- Diocese (Scandinavia), Norway's historical province
The pen stands for:
- Stiftgeld , an annual donation to the landlord
Pen as family name:
- Andrea Stift (* 1976), Austrian writer, Germanist and philologist
- Friedrich Stift (* 1961), Austrian diplomat
- Linda Stift (* 1969), Austrian author
Pen as name of place and mountain:
- Stift (Altenholz) , part of the municipality Altenholz in the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde (Schleswig-Holstein)
- -stift as a suffix of place names, see place name
- Stift (Rothaargebirge) (612 m), mountain in the Rothaargebirge, 3 km north-north-west of Weifenbach , Marburg-Biedenkopf district, Hesse
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Wiktionary: pen - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations