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A nib is the small pointed metal tip at the end of a pen - the part that actually touches the paper and lets the ink flow out. Fountain pens are famous for their nibs, which can be thin or thick depending on how you want your writing to look.
(鋼)筆尖
原始詞典資料11 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
nibnoun/nɪb/
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The tip of a pen or tool that touches the surface, transferring ink to paper.
- 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.
- Ford, whose often acid nib belied a deep love of all things Iberian, is one of 20 British authors profiled in a new Spanish book[…].
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dialectalA bird's beak.
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Bits of trapped dust or other foreign material that form imperfections in painted or varnished surfaces.
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A piece of a roasted, hulled cocoa bean.
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A small and pointed thing or part; a point; a prong.
- the little nib or fructifying principle
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One of the handles projecting from a scythe snath.
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The shaft of a wagon.
nibverb/nɪb/
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To fit (a pen) with a nib.
- In nibbing the pen, place the inside of the point flat upon the nail of your left-hand thumb (holding the quill between the first and second finger of that hand), and let the whole length of the split be extended thereon, to steady the pen as much as possible […]
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資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。