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Crib vs Crit - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between crib and crit

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 crit is (informal) criticism or crit can be a critical hit as used in role playing games.

As verbs the difference between crib and crit

is that crib is to place or confine in a crib while crit is to exact damage from a critical hit.

crib

English

  • (Canada) A small raft made of timber.
  • Synonyms

    * (holiday home) bach (qualifier)

    Derived terms

    * crib mattress * crib sheet * crib death * crib board

    Verb

    (cribb)
  • To place or confine in a crib.
  • To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
  • * I. Taylor
  • if only the vital energy be not cribbed or cramped
  • * Shakespeare
  • Now I am cabin'd, cribbed , confined.
  • 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.
  • I cribbed the recipe from the Food Network site, but made a few changes of my own.
  • To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
  • (obsolete) To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of.
  • 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, Chapter 14.
  • (Indian English) To complain, to grumble
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1957 , author=L.P.Hartley , title=Hireling , chapter=xi , url= , isbn= , page=90 , 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
  • Who sought to make bishops to crib in a Presbyterian trundle bed.
  • (of a horse) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.
  • Derived terms

    * cribber

    Anagrams

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    crit

    English

    Etymology 1

    From , by shortening

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) Criticism.
  • (informal) Critique.
  • (informal) A proponent of (critical legal studies).
  • (cycling) A criterium race.
  • Etymology 2

    Short form of critical hit

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A critical hit as used in role playing games.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To exact damage from a critical hit.
  • Wall of text crits you for 2K.
    English clippings