Cabin vs Crib - What's the difference?
cabin | crib | Synonyms |
(lb) A small dwelling characteristic of the frontier, especially when built from logs with simple tools and not constructed by professional builders, but by those who meant to live in it.
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*1994 , Michael Grumley, "Life Drawing" in Violet Quill
*:And that was how long we stayed in the cabin , pressed together, pulling the future out of each other, sweating and groaning and making sure each of us remembered.
(lb) A chalet or lodge, especially one that can hold large groups of people.
A compartment on land, usually comprised of logs.
A private room on a ship.
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*:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. Mail bags, so I understand, are being put on board. Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.
The interior of a boat, enclosed to create a small room, particularly for sleeping.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=10
, passage=Mr. Cooke had had a sloop?yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin , which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold.}}
The passenger area of an airplane.
The section of a passenger plane having the same class of service.
A signal box.
A small room; an enclosed place.
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:So long in secret cabin there he held her captive.
To place in a cabin.
(obsolete) To live in, or as if in, a cabin; to lodge.
* Shakespeare
(Canada) A small raft made of timber.
To place or confine in a crib.
To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
* I. Taylor
* Shakespeare
To collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet.
To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
(obsolete) To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of.
(Indian English) To complain, to grumble
* {{quote-book
, year=1957
, author=L.P.Hartley
, title=Hireling
, chapter=xi
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, passage=She calls on the neighbours, she's out half the time and doesn't answer the telephone, and when I start cribbing she just laughs.}}
To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
* Gauden
(of a horse) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.
In us terms the difference between cabin and crib
is that cabin is a small dwelling characteristic of the frontier, especially when built from logs with simple tools and not constructed by professional builders, but by those who meant to live in it while crib is a baby’s bed (British and Australasian cot) with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.In obsolete terms the difference between cabin and crib
is that cabin is to live in, or as if in, a cabin; to lodge while crib is a minor theft, extortion or embezzlement, with or without criminal intent.cabin
English
(wikipedia cabin)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* cell * chamber * hut * pod * shack * shedAntonyms
* hall * palace * villaSee also
* cabanaVerb
(en verb)- I'll make you cabin in a cave.
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English
Synonyms
* (holiday home) bach (qualifier)Derived terms
* crib mattress * crib sheet * crib death * crib boardVerb
(cribb)- if only the vital energy be not cribbed or cramped
- Now I am cabin'd, cribbed , confined.
- I cribbed the recipe from the Food Network site, but made a few changes of my own.
- It was very easy, Briggs said, to make a galley-slave of a boy all the half-year, and then score him up idle; and to crib two dinners a-week out of his board, and then score him up greedy; but that wasn’t going to be submitted to, he believed, was it?'' — Charles Dickens, ''Dombey and Son , 1848,
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- Who sought to make bishops to crib in a Presbyterian trundle bed.
