English
Alternative spellings
ball-point pen
Noun
en-noun|sg=ballpoint pen
- A pen, similar in size and shape to a pencil, having an internal chamber filled with a viscous, quick-drying ink that is dispensed at the tip during use by the rolling action of a metal sphere (around 0.7 mm to 1 mm in diameter).
Synonyms
Biro (Britain, Australia, New Zealand)
Translations
Chinese:
Czech: kuli�kové pero n, propisovacà tužka, propisova�ka f, propiska f
Dutch: balpen f
Estonian: pastapliiats
Finnish: kuulakynä (informal), kuulakärkikynä
French: bic m, stylo à bille m
German: Kugelschreiber m
Icelandic: kúlupenni m
Indonesian: bolpen
Italian: penna a sfera f
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Japanese: ����� (b�rupen)
Polish: pióro kulkowe n
Portuguese: caneta esferográfica f
Russian: �а�икова� ���ка (šárikovaja rú�ka) f
Spanish: bolÃgrafo m, birome f italbrac|Argentina|Paraguay|Uruguay, boli m italbrac|Spain|colloquial, esfero m italbrac|Colombia|Ecuador, lapicero m italbrac|Colombia|Costa Rica|El Salvador|Guatemala|Nicaragua|Peru|Venezuela, lápiz pasta m italbrac|Chile, mango m italbrac|Eastern Bolivia, pluma m italbrac|Mexico, plumero m italbrac|Colombian Atlantic Coast, puntabola f italbrac|Bolivian standard usage
Swedish: kulspetspenna c, kulpenna c
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