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Nis vs Nib - What's the difference?

nis | nib |

As a contraction nis

is form of Contraction|ne is|lang=en.

As a proper noun Niš

is a city in Serbia.

As an initialism NIS

is new Israeli Sheqel.

As a noun nib is

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

nis

English

Contraction

(en-cont)
  • (obsolete)

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    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) ----