I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bottle top/pen top etc
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Has anyone seen my pen top?
bull pen
felt-tip pen
fountain pen
light pen
marker pen
pen drive
pen friend
pen name
pen pal
pen pusher
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
ballpoint
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The man clicked his ballpoint pen , scribbled three characters in an already scribbled margin, and turned the page.
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Even the pages of my notebook were soggy to write on, and ballpoint pen sank into the softened surface.
black
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The cargo's ultimate destination had been printed neatly in black pen in the bottom left-hand corner of the page.
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It had been written with a black felt-tip pen on a legal pad that was in the home.
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Get the notes typewritten using a new ribbon, or copy them out in black felt tip pen in large capital letters.
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Is it a 50 watt bulb that a child's been scribbling on with a black felt tip pen ?
■ NOUN
felt
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They each had a big rainbow packet of felt pens , and a Dinky car.
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There was a diagram on the screen and a few dried-out felt pens on the wooden ridge under it.
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Drawing with thick felt pens is essential for the presentation to be clear.
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I solved the problem by adapting a red felt pen .
fountain
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Filled it in with his fountain pen .
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There is nothing developmental linking the middle childhood years with fountain pens and mismatched socks.
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The writer of the best letter each month will be presented with a Montblanc Solitaire fountain pen .
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She had to be fed, as well as by me, with a kind of pipette, like a fountain pen filler.
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Much of it looks engagingly olde-worlde: cameras disguised as tree branches and hypodermics fitted inside fountain pens .
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There are pages devoted to planting explosives in table lamps, garden gates and even fountain pens .
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The creation of the modern fountain pen is usually attributed to Lewis E Waterman in the 1880s.
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By the Seventies, ballpoints reigned supreme and, once schools allowed their use, the future for fountain pens looked bleak.
ink
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The pens can be fibre-tip, ball-point or ink pens.
letter
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Until this business of the poison pen letter is solved, you need to get away from this house.
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This wasn't just about poison pen letters , and bringing her here for her own safety.
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Instead he had found the poison pen letter that she intended to send to Jessamy.
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Harriet Vane returns to her college for the occasion and finds herself in a maelstrom of obscene graffiti and poison pen letters .
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And she didn't think that it was totally connected with the arrival of that poison pen letter this morning.
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It had started with the arrival of that poison pen letter , and ended with that kiss.
marker
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I m going to get a marker pen and colour in one side - hey presto, a KeaneKickmaster.
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Works in marker pen can be reproduced on colour photocopiers or by printing and need not be displayed themselves.
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The other significant variable in marker pen work is the paper type.
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There were several red-tipped pins protruding from it and an area of Soho had been ringed in red marker pen .
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Beware of marker pens , as their ink tends to seep deeply into the wood.
name
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Cassandra, appropriately, considering his pen name , was not believed.
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Under yet another pen name , Leo starts writing scathing reviews of her own books for a newspaper literary supplement.
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It was signed in Charlotte's male pen name .
pal
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Translating email pen pals into the real world of human contact, or even romance, is another matter.
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Craig and Johnson met the way practically anyone meets an inmate: They became pen pals .
poison
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Until this business of the poison pen letter is solved, you need to get away from this house.
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They had a poison pen in the works.
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This wasn't just about poison pen letters, and bringing her here for her own safety.
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Instead he had found the poison pen letter that she intended to send to Jessamy.
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Harriet Vane returns to her college for the occasion and finds herself in a maelstrom of obscene graffiti and poison pen letters.
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And she didn't think that it was totally connected with the arrival of that poison pen letter this morning.
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He had the feeling that Berowne was in some trouble deeper and more subtly disturbing than poison pen messages.
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It had started with the arrival of that poison pen letter, and ended with that kiss.
quill
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Other questions - did he have a quill pen , and therefore a supply of ink?
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Photographed in 1973, Eugene Ionesco happily scribbles away with a feathered quill pen .
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Wrote with steel nibs whereas Gustave always used a quill pen .
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Holding his bat with the precision of a monk wielding a quill pen , he waited patiently for whatever Mafouz should deliver.
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He then wrote, his quill pen scratching a piece of vellum.
tip
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The selected area of a faced sample or hand specimen must be marked with water insoluble felt tip pen before cutting.
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Get the notes typewritten using a new ribbon, or copy them out in black felt tip pen in large capital letters.
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Is it a 50 watt bulb that a child's been scribbling on with a black felt tip pen ?
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Mark out brick lines with a felt tip pen .
■ VERB
build
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Another said they were building a pen for their chickens.
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They caught wildfowl for the ever-increasing colony, and built new pens and enclosures for them.
pick
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Couldn't have picked up the pen and opened the notebook and faced the blank page.
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Sometimes, without thinking, I almost pick up the pen and start rewriting our campaign literature.
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Himmler picked up his pen and started to write again.
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She picked up her pen and rested its point on the page.
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Every time I pick up my pen I put it down again.
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Alternatively pick up a pen and a piece of paper and compose your own speech immediately after reading all these for inspiration.
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She picked up a pen and drew a line through the service charge, then handed the bill to the indignant guest.
put
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So if you are fun-loving and open-minded, put pen to paper.
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He then put pen to paper, and soon a stream of adjectives was flowing.
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So why not put pen to paper and win a wardrobe of fashions.
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I put down the pen , because this would be the great, unforgivable Miltonian sin.
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And striker Geoff Ferris is likely to put pen to paper for 12 months.
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If you are not writing, put your pen down.
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Now, as I put down my pen , I bring the life of unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.
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Then Freitag made a faint gesture to his partner, who put away his pen and notebook.
use
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For the dark lines of bare tree branches Martin uses a pen loaded with paint.
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However, Sean performed poorly on tasks that required him to use a pencil or pen to perform copying assignments.
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I mean nobody died or anything or used a pen that's also a flame-thrower.
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As one ad showed, it allowed you to e-mail from the beach using a pen instead of a keyboard.
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Do not use felt-tip pens , especially the strong-smelling ones. me rule here is - if it smells, avoid it.
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The president used a different pen to sign each letter of his name.
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I've used it for carrying pens - you don't get too many grizzlies or wolves where I live!
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Mark the positions of the 20 l.e.d.s on the front of the tie using a pen .
write
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Much of that writing came from the pens of men and women who never saw the West.
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He wrote with her pen and kept the little envelope filled with notes she used to write him by his side.
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Examples include the use of electronic forms that recognize information hand-\#written with an electronic pen .
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One of the big changes we had to cope with, was learning to write with pen and ink.
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If you are not writing , put your pen down.
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It would be written with my pen , you see, if it was that letter.
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The Halutzim were busy packing boxes, hammering nails, tying up chests, writing labels with thick pens and pencils.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
slip of the tongue/pen
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He had made an unfortunate slip of the tongue himself.
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In all the excitement the Registrar, Mrs Molly Croll, suffered a slip of the pen.
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Much of the humour derives from slips of the tongue, an occupational hazard.
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One slip of the tongue would have betrayed all I was working for.
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They both use the same root consonants, which are rearranged as in a dream or a slip of the tongue.
with/at a stroke of the pen
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With a stroke of the pen, the two leaders have cut the number of nuclear weapons in half.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a fountain pen
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A good-looking, pre-war pen cost less than a third of its modern cousin, and wrote just as well.
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Expect 1993 to be the year of the pen .
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He threaded the pen back through her fingers, gently.
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I then looked at the boy again, who held his pen out towards me.
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No mere holding pen , this is home for these creatures.
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She also created Write a Senior, a website that links the elderly with pen pals around the world.
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This explains those tiny hillside pens bounded by rock walls.
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We started a lively correspondence with about five pen friends each, scribbling away under the desk in lessons.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
letter
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Though she was not really homesick, penning the letters somehow kept her close.
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Since his installation as bishop, he was known to personally pen all the letters of real importance to his diocese.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The flu kept him penned up at home for a week.
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The piece was penned by Mozart when he was eight.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It's rather like the scene that I penned at the beginning of this column.
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On a different tack, Republican lawmakers have penned bills that would limit welfare benefits to teen moms.
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Others carried head-bundles of leaves and grass for the sheep and goats now penned behind thorn fences beside the houses.
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Rescripts were often penned for a case, and not for the world at large.
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Since his installation as bishop, he was known to personally pen all the letters of real importance to his diocese.
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There are plenty of exceptions, fine songwriters penning protest songs or brooding religious inquiries.