Crib vs Baby - What's the difference?
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(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.
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* 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
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To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
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(of a horse) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.
A very young human, particularly from birth to a couple of years old or until walking is fully mastered.
Any very young animal, especially a vertebrate; many species have specific names for their babies, such as kittens for the babies of cats, puppies]] for the babies of dogs, and chicks for the babies of birds. See [[:Category:Baby animals for more.
Unborn young; a fetus.
A person who is immature or infantile.
A term of endearment for a girlfriend or boyfriend or spouse.
(informal) A form of address to a man or a woman considered to be attractive.
A pet project or responsibility.
The lastborn of a family.
(archaic) A small image of an infant; a doll.
Of a child: very young; of the age when he or she would be termed a baby or infant.
Of an animal: young.
Intended for babies.
Picked when small and immature (as in baby corn'', ''baby potatoes ).
To coddle; to pamper somebody like an infant.
As nouns the difference between crib and baby
is that crib is (us) 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 while baby is baby (infant).As a verb crib
is to place or confine in a crib.crib
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.
Derived terms
* cribberAnagrams
* *baby
English
Noun
(babies)- When is your baby due?
- Stand up for yourself - don't be such a baby !
- Hey baby , what are you doing later?
- The annual report has been my baby since September.
- See my new car here? I can't wait to take this baby for a drive.
Synonyms
* (young human being) babe, babby, babbie, infant * (immature or infantile person) big baby * (term of endearment) loveSee also
* gamete, zygote, morula, blastocyst, embryo, fetusAdjective
(-) (used only before the noun)- a baby boy
- a baby elephant
- baby clothes