The word "nib" is correct and usable in written English.
It is most commonly used as a noun to refer to the pointed end of a pen, pencil, or other writing instrument. It can also be used as a verb to describe the action of writing or drawing with a nib. Example: She carefully dipped the nib of her calligraphy pen into the inkwell before creating beautiful, intricate letters on the page.
The subjects encompassed in that time include authoritarian governments, the challenge to liberalism raised by Islam and the corrosive combination of the Bush administration's bungled foreign policy and Europe's unthinking anti-Americanism.But Mr Garton Ash's silver nib wiggles past those constraints.
The mutual border was (and is) a disputed line drawn by colonial authorities with a thick nib, known as the McMahon line, after the Indian foreign secretary of 1914.
Yet what is most interesting is how the process has radically changed.In 1987 the artwork was inked onto paper with a Rotring pen (a highly precise pen with a "stylographic" point a fine steel tubed nib, not a rollerball).
"The Tibetans came for money and did nothing for us," said Mr Nansey, referring to the fur-cloaked Tibetan officials who until the late 1940s went from village to village extracting a share of the harvest.Making matters worse, the McMahon Line was drawn with a fat nib, establishing a ten-kilometre margin for error, and it has never been demarcated.
Stern agreed to buy the diaries under conditions of strict secrecy, and several million dollars were passed to Mr Kujau via Gerd Heidemann, who took a generous commission (and, like his accomplice, was later jailed).For two years Mr Kujau laboured in a back room in his Stuttgart shop, penning the thoughts and deeds of Hitler in a fair copy of the Führer's spidery handwriting, using a steel nib.
The alphabet was fundamentally uncomplicated; letters sloped 35 to 40 degrees to the right, and thick lines were produced on the downstrokes of capitals and minuscules through pressure applied on a flexible, edged (i.e., not pointed) nib.
On March 10 , 2015 the museum added the Pen, a stylus with a nib on one end and an embedded NFC (near field communication) reader on the other.
The small o was made in one continuous stroke beginning at the top, moving down the left side in a curved motion and up the right side in a pushed stroke, and the right side of a round hand o, b, or e always shows a slight thickness in the northeast quadrant, reflecting the width of the edge of the nib.
In a 15th-century pen-written manuscript in the Freer Gallery at Washington, D.C., it can be observed that the pen's nib is cut wide, giving a considerable difference in thick and thin strokes.
Initially conceived for Cooper Hewitt by the media firm Local Projects, working with exhibition designers Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the Pen was issued with an entry ticket, and it enabled visitors to draw on touch screens with the nib and store images from NFC tags with a tap of the reader.
Hairlines were made by using the corner of the nib and were nearly invisible in manuscripts.
