Gib vs Nib - What's the difference?
gib | nib |
A bolt or wedge made from wood or metal used for holding a machine part in place.
A castrated male cat or ferret.
A male cat; a tomcat.
To fasten in place with a gib.
(lb) Miscellaneous pieces of a fragged character, most often in first-person shooters.
(lb) To blast an enemy or opponent into gibs.
The tip of a pen or tool that touches the surface, transferring ink to paper.
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, 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.
* Sir Thomas Browne
One of the handles projecting from a scythe snath.
The shaft of a wagon.
As nouns the difference between gib and nib
is that gib is si abbreviation for gibibyte or gibibytes while nib is the tip of a pen or tool that touches the surface, transferring ink to paper.gib
English
Etymology 1
(18th century). Perhaps abbreviated from (m), the name of the cat in the old story of Reynard the Fox'', in the ''Romaunt of the Rose , etc.Noun
(en noun)Verb
Etymology 2
Shortened from giblet.Noun
(en noun)Verb
Anagrams
* (l), (l) * (l) ----nib
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- the little nib or fructifying principle
