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ballpoint

noun

Etymology

From ball + point.

  1. derived from *pungō✻ — “to sting, prick”
  2. derived from pūnctus
  3. derived from pointe
  4. derived from pūnctum — “a hole punched in; a point, puncture”
  5. derived from point
  6. inherited from poynt
  7. compounded as ballpoint — “ball + point”

Definitions

  1. Ellipsis of ballpoint pen

    Ellipsis of ballpoint pen; the nib thereof, containing the ball.

    • Have you seen my ballpoint? I need to sign this form, and a felt-tip won't make carbons.

  2. A kind of needle with a rounded tip.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for ballpoint. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA