Rib vs Crib - What's the difference?

In nautical terms the difference between rib and crib

is that rib is any of several curved members attached to a ship's keel and extending upward and outward to form the framework of the hull while crib is a small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel.

In transitive terms the difference between rib and crib

is that rib is to leave strips of undisturbed ground between the furrows in ploughing (land) while crib is 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.

As nouns the difference between rib and crib

is that rib is any of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans and other animals and extending from the spine to or toward the sternum 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.

As verbs the difference between rib and crib

is that rib is to shape, support, or provide something with a rib or ribs while crib is to place or confine in a crib.

rib

English

Noun

(en noun)

Any of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans and other animals and extending from the spine to or toward the sternum

A part or piece, similar to a rib, and serving to shape or support something

A cut of meat enclosing one or more rib bones

(label) Any of several curved members attached to a ship's keel and extending upward and outward to form the framework of the hull

Any of several transverse pieces that provide an aircraft wing with shape and strength

(label) A long, narrow, usually arched member projecting from the surface of a structure, especially such a member separating the webs of a vault

(label) A raised ridge in knitted material or in cloth

(label) The main, or any of the prominent veins of a leaf

A teasing joke

A single strand of hair.

A stalk of celery.

Verb

To shape, support, or provide something with a rib or ribs

To tease or make fun of someone

To enclose, as if with ribs, and protect; to shut in.

* Shakespeare

(label) To leave strips of undisturbed ground between the furrows in ploughing (land).

Derived terms

{{der3, chuck rib , middle rib , ribcage , rib eye , ribgrass , rib-tickler , ribwort , spare rib , ribbed vault , grey rib}}

Anagrams

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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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