Nib vs Tib - What's the difference?
nib | tib |
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.
(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
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)- 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