nib

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The tip of a pen or tool that touches the surface, transferring ink to paper.
    — 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.
  2. A bird's beak. dialectal
  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.
    — the little nib or fructifying principle
  6. One of the handles projecting from a scythe snath.
  7. The shaft of a wagon.
动词 v.
  1. To fit (a pen) with a nib. transitive
    — In nibbing the pen, place the inside of the point flat upon the nail of your left-hand thumb (holding the quill between the first and second finger of that hand), and let the whole length of the split be extended thereon, to steady the pen as much as possible […]

词形变化

nibs plural knib alternative,obsolete nibs present,singular,third-person nibbing participle,present nibbed participle,past nibbed past knib alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
denib nibber nib-cove nibless niblet niblick niblike nibmeister nib pen nib sugar nipple renib

词源

词源 1
From a variant of neb, perhaps due to association with nibble.
词源 2
From a variant of neb, perhaps due to association with nibble.
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