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Nib vs Tib - What's the difference?

nib | tib |

As a noun nib

is the tip of a pen or tool that touches the surface, transferring ink to paper.

As an abbreviation tib is

tebibyte, 240 bytes.

nib

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The tip of a pen or tool that touches the surface, transferring ink to paper.
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, 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.
  • 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
    • the little nib or fructifying principle
  • One of the handles projecting from a scythe snath.
  • The shaft of a wagon.

    • Derived terms

    * denib

    Anagrams

    * (l) * (l) * (l) ----

    tib

    English

    Etymology 1

    Abbreviation of tibia .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (medical informal'') Short form of ''tibia .

    • See also

    * fib

    Etymology 2

    Origin unknown; perhaps from a pet form of Isabel .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) a working-class woman; a prostitute
  • :* 1964': But this woman was, he thought, no '''tib , no purveyor of holy mutton. — Anthony Burgess, ''Nothing Like The Sun
  • (obsolete) a young girl, a sweetheart

    • Anagrams

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