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nib
English
Alternative forms
- knib (obsolete)
Etymology
From a variant of neb, perhaps due to association with nibble.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /n?b/
- Rhymes: -?b
Noun
nib (plural nibs)
- The tip of a pen or tool that touches the surface, transferring ink to paper.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1
- Slowly welling from the point of her gold nib, pale blue ink dissolved the full stop; for there her pen stuck; her eyes fixed, and tears slowly filled them.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1
- The bill or beak of a bird; the neb.
- Bits of trapped dust or other foreign material that form imperfections in painted or varnished surfaces.
- A piece of a roasted, hulled cocoa bean.
- A small and pointed thing or part; a point; a prong.
- 1658, Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus
- the little nib or fructifying principle
- 1658, Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus
- One of the handles projecting from a scythe snath.
- The shaft of a wagon.
Synonyms
- (handle projecting from a scythe snath): thole
Derived terms
- denib
Translations
Verb
nib (third-person singular simple present nibs, present participle nibbing, simple past and past participle nibbed)
- (transitive) To fit (a pen) with a nib.
Anagrams
- BNI, NBI, bin, ibn
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nibbed
English
Etymology
nib +? -ed
Adjective
nibbed (comparative more nibbed, superlative most nibbed)
- Having a nib or point.
- (philately) Of a stamp: having the nib of its perforation removed or damaged.
Translations
Anagrams
- Dibben
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