Crib vs Miracle - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between crib and miracle

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 miracle is a wonderful event occurring in the physical world attributed to supernatural powers.

As a verb crib

is to place or confine in a crib.

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

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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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miracle

English

(wikipedia miracle)

Noun

(en noun)

A wonderful event occurring in the physical world attributed to supernatural powers.

Many religious beliefs are based on miracles .

An example of a miracle associated with Muhammad is the splitting of the moon.

A fortunate outcome that prevails despite overwhelming odds against it.

* 1966 November 25, "A Great Document Made by Wisdom and Luck", in Life , volume 61, number 22, page 13:

Secondly, it was a miracle that a document hammered out with such difficulty, satisfying very few of its authors completely and satisfying some of them very little, would turn out to be the most successful political invention in history.

* 1993 , Hatch N. Gardner and Frank H. Winter, P-51 Mustang (Turner Publishing Company), page 78:

It was a miracle that I survived that ditching in the high waves because I had my seat belt and shoulder harness unbuckled in anticipation of bailing out.

* 2003 , Eric Lionel Jones, The European miracle: environments, economies, and geopolitics in the history of Europe and Asia (Cambridge University Press), page 218:

Seen in this light it was a miracle of economic history that Europe was able to undertake so much higher a proportion of its expansion overseas, and secure a massive injection of resources and big markets without a commensurate growth in her numbers.

An awesome and exceptional example of something

* 1847 , Honoré de Balzac, Scenes from a Courtesan's Life , page 323:

The home of our kings, over which you tread as you pace the immense hall known as the Salle des Pas-Perdus, was a miracle of architecture.

* 2008 , Joseph R. Conlin, The American Past: A Survey of American History (Cengage Learning), page 670:

It was a miracle' of engineering that made possible, with the cheap electricity the dam generated, another kind of ' miracle : the bizarre, superilluminated city of Las Vegas, Nevada.

Derived terms

* miraculous * miraculousness * miraculously

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