Meaning

7 senses
  1. The tip of a pen or tool that touches the surface, transferring ink to paper.

    Federspitze

    остриё пера́ostrijó perá

  2. (dialectal)A bird's beak.

    Schnabel

    клювkljuv

    horny projecting mouth of a bird

  3. Bits of trapped dust or other foreign material that form imperfections in painted or varnished surfaces.

  4. A piece of a roasted, hulled cocoa bean.

  5. A small and pointed thing or part; a point; a prong.

  6. One of the handles projecting from a scythe snath.

  7. The shaft of a wagon.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. The pen has a very fine nib.

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  2. Once the sketch is completed, ink it with a nib pen.

    deSobald die Skizze fertig ist, tuschiere sie mit einem Füller aus.

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  3. She watched the nib of her pen glide around the surface of the page, an inky line trailing behind it.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
tip of a pen:
bill of a bird:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
tip of a pen:
bill of a bird:

Origin

From a variant of neb, perhaps due to association with nibble.

From a variant of neb, perhaps due to association with nibble.

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Forms

plural: nibs
Singularnib
Pluralnibs

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

13 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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