Rib vs Twit - What's the difference?

Rib is a related term of twit.

As nouns the difference between rib and twit

is that rib is (acronym) rigid inflatable boat — a lightweight inflatable boat with a rigid hull while twit is a reproach, gibe or taunt.

As a verb twit is

to reproach, blame; to ridicule or tease.

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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twit

English

Verb

(twitt)

To reproach, blame; to ridicule or tease.

* 1590 , Shakespeare. History of Henry VI , Part II, Act III, Scene I

"Hath he not twit our sovereign lady here

With ignominious words, though clerkly couch'd,

As if she had suborned some to swear

False allegations to o'erthrow his state? " -

* 1955 , edition, ISBN 0553249592, page 106:

Mr. Cramer, a policeman, came this morning and twitted me for having let a murderer hoodwink me.

* 2007 , Bernard Porter, "Did He Puff his Crimes to Please a Bloodthirsty Readership?", review of Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer'' by Tim Jeal, ''London Review of Books , 5 April, 29:7, p. 10

H. R. Fox Bourne, secretary of the Aborigines' Protection Society – often twitted for being an ‘armchair critic’ – wrote in a review of one of Stanley's books

* Tillotson

This these scoffers twitted the Christian with.

* L'Estrange

Aesop minds men of their errors, without twitting them for what is amiss.

(computing) To ignore or killfile (a user on a bulletin board system).

* 1995 , "Michelle Jackson", Debutante/Question about Tori Shirts'' (on newsgroup ''rec.music.tori-amos )

However, on the Internet BBS's such as Quartz (now dead), Prism, Monsoon, Sunset, ect(SIC), someone pulling that kind of crap is likely to get flamed quite fast and twitted before he/she can breathe.

* 2002 , "Chris Hoppman", FidoNet Feed Needed'' (on newsgroup ''alt.bbs )

And no, there is no "thought purification program" that can filter out some folks(SIC) obscene ideas that can be expressed w/o written vulgarities. That has to be simply "dealt" with, either by ignoring or twitting the individual that offends habitually.

Noun

(en noun)

A reproach, gibe or taunt.

A foolish or annoying person.

* (rfdate) (Larry Kramer), Just Say No

What do you mean, since when did I become such a radical fairy? Since I started knowing twits' like you, you ' twit !

Usage notes

In the UK and UK English-speaking areas, usually used in a humorous or affectionate manner.

Derived terms

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Synonyms

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