0 a pen with a small metal ball at the end that puts ink on the paper: --
1 a pen with a small, metal ball at the end that rolls ink out when you press the ball against paper to write --
Fountain pens may serve as an everyday writing instrument, much like the common ballpoint pen.
In a labor-intensive process and with great precision, the artist draws precisely with a simple ballpoint pen on his gigantic canvas drawings.
They are doing the work of barbarians even if they wear no bearskin and wield no club—and, indeed, have nothing in their hands more lethal than a ballpoint pen.
Even if the technology in a company extended only to a ballpoint pen, the employer would have the facilities at his disposal to provide the information required.
One cannot get by with a ballpoint pen and a pad of paper.
For example, the ballpoint pen took 58 years to reach the market place in 1946.
He produces a cardboard imitation of a leatherette case in which are a pen, a pencil and a ballpoint pen.
We call that blue ballpoint pen.
