pen

bolígrafo, pluma

Instrumento pequeño que sirve para escribir o dibujar con tinta.

En inglés sencillo: A small tool that uses ink to write or draw.

• Can I borrow your pen?
• She signed the form with a blue pen.
• These pens have run out of ink.

Expresiones frecuentes: ballpoint pen, pen and paper, fountain pen

corral

Espacio pequeño rodeado de una cerca donde se mantienen animales.

En inglés sencillo: A small area surrounded by a fence where animals are kept.

• The pigs are in their pen.
• He built a new pen for the sheep.
• Close the gate so the animals stay in the pen.

Sinónimos: enclosure

Expresiones frecuentes: pig pen, sheep pen, cattle pen

cárcel, prisión

Cárcel donde cumplen condena personas declaradas culpables de delitos graves.

En inglés sencillo: A prison where people are kept after being found guilty of serious crimes.

• He spent five years in the pen.
• She was sent to the state pen.
• They met while serving time in the pen.

Sinónimos: prison, penitentiary

Expresiones frecuentes: in the pen, federal pen, state pen

pluma

Un escritor o su manera particular de escribir.

En inglés sencillo: A writer, or the way someone writes.

• She has a sharp pen.
• The magazine attracted some of the finest pens of its time.
• These stories came from the pen of a young teacher.

Expresiones frecuentes: a sharp pen, a gifted pen, from the pen

escribir, redactar

Escribir una carta, un relato, una canción u otro texto.

En inglés sencillo: To write a letter, story, song, or other piece of text.

• She penned a short letter.
• He has penned several songs for the band.
• The article was penned during her stay abroad.

Sinónimos: write, compose

Expresiones frecuentes: pen a letter, pen a novel, pen a song, pen an article

encerrar, acorralar

Meter animales en un espacio rodeado de una cerca.

En inglés sencillo: To put animals in an area surrounded by a fence.

• We penned the sheep before sunset.
• The cattle were penned near the barn.
• She penned up the pigs while the fence was repaired.

Cómo se usa: pen someone/something in/up (The farmer penned the sheep up before dark.)

Sinónimos: enclose, confine

Antónimos: release

Expresiones frecuentes: pen up sheep, pen cattle, pen an animal

encerrar, acorralar

Mantener a alguien en un espacio reducido del que no puede salir fácilmente.

En inglés sencillo: To keep someone in a small area that they cannot easily leave.

• The crowd was penned in behind barriers.
• Tall buildings penned us in on every side.
• She felt penned in by the narrow walls.

Cómo se usa: be penned in (We were penned in by parked cars.)

Sinónimos: trap, confine, hem in

Antónimos: release, free

Expresiones frecuentes: pen someone in, pen in something