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What (who) is nib - definition

WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Nib; NIB (disambiguation)

Nib         
·noun The bill or beak of a bird; the neb.
II. Nib ·noun A small and pointed thing or part; a point; a prong.
III. Nib ·noun One of the handles which project from a scythe snath; also, [Prov. Eng.], the shaft of a wagon.
IV. Nib ·vt To furnish with a nib; to Point; to mend the point of; as, to nib a pen.
V. Nib ·noun The points of a pen; also, the pointed part of a pen; a short pen adapted for insertion in a holder.
nib         
(nibs)
A nib is a pointed piece of metal at the end of some pens, which controls the flow of ink as you write.
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NIB         

Wikipedia

NIB

NIB, nib or NiB may refer to:

  • Nib (pen), the writing tip of a pen
  • The Nib, an online comic
  • Nib, partially processed cocoa bean
  • Twizzlers Nibs, a candy
  • Neodymium magnet or NIB (neodymium, iron, boron)
  • N.I.B., a song by Black Sabbath
  • .nib, Apple Interface Builder file format
  • Net insurance benefit
  • NiB, nickel boron, an electroless nickel alloy

In companies and organizations:

  • National Irish Bank
  • National Intercollegiate Band
  • Nordic Investment Bank
  • nib Health Funds, Australasia
  • New Iberia (Amtrak station), Louisiana, US, station code
  • National Internet Backbone NIB-II, the BSNL internet backbone
  • Nagasaki International Television, Japan
Examples of use of nib
1. The National Intelligence Bureau (NIB) was last afternoon questioning the photo–journalist, identified as Yathurshan Premachandran, working for a newspaper published in Colombo.
2. It is modern, clean and directional, from the featherlike clip, to the nib– align, flowing to the point of contact with paper,» Knight said.
3. The thick nib of a reed pen was, in his drawings, the equivalent of the brush marks typical of his paintings.
4. The only Dutch artist who preferred the reed to a quill or metal nib was Rembrandt, and this must have borne its own significance for Van Gogh.
5. He buried his snout in all those inky–scrawled sheets of A4 paper, a haphazard pile of memos–to–self scratched by some thick, urgent, quaking nib.