What does crib mean?
Definitions for crib
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This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word crib.
Princeton's WordNet
crib, cotnoun
baby bed with high sides made of slats
pony, trot, cribnoun
a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)
cribnoun
a bin or granary for storing grains
cribnoun
the cards discarded by players at cribbage
cribbage, cribverb
a card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two
cribverb
use a crib, as in an exam
cribverb
take unauthorized (intellectual material)
cribverb
line with beams or planks
"crib a construction hole"
Wiktionary
cribnoun
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.
cribnoun
A bed for a child older than a baby.
cribnoun
A small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel
cribnoun
A wicker basket; compare Moses basket.
cribnoun
A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.
cribnoun
The baby Jesus and the manger in a creche or Nativity scene, consisting of statues of Mary, Joseph and various other characters such as the magi.
cribnoun
A bin for drying or storing grain, as with a corn crib.
cribnoun
A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.
cribnoun
A confined space, as with a cage or office-cubicle
cribverb
To place or confine in a crib.
Zeugmatically, she cribbed the baby and then the corn.
cribverb
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.
cribverb
To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
cribverb
To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of: petty thieving.
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.
cribverb
To complain, to grumble
cribnoun
A job, a position; (British), an appointment.
cribnoun
A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.
cribnoun
One's residence, or where one normally hangs out.
cribnoun
A boxy structure traditionally built of heavy wooden timbers, to support an existing structure from below, as with a mineshaft or a building being raised off its foundation in preparation for being moved; see cribbing.
cribnoun
A collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort; a crib sheet.
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cribnoun
A minor theft, extortion or embezzlement, with or without criminal intent.
cribnoun
Short for the card game cribbage.
cribnoun
The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.
cribnoun
A known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then used to work out the remaining sections.
cribnoun
A small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction.
cribnoun
A packed lunch taken to work.
Etymology: From cribb, from West. Cognate with Dutch krib, German Krippe. The sense of ‘stealing, taking notes, plagiarize’ seems to have developed out of the verb.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
CRIBnoun
Etymology: crybbe, Sax. crib, German.
Let a beast be lord of beasts, and his crib shall stand at the king’s messe. William Shakespeare, Hamlet.
The steer and lion at one crib shall meet,
And harmless serpents lick the pilgrim’s feet. Alexander Pope.Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smokey cribs,
Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee,
Than in the perfum’d chambers of the great? William Shakespeare.To Cribverb
To shut up in a narrow habitation; to confine; to cage.
Etymology: from the noun.
Now I’m cabbin’d, cribb’d, confin’d, bound in
To saucy doubts and fears. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.
ChatGPT
crib
A crib is a bed designed specifically for infants and young toddlers, typically with a barred or latticed framework to prevent the child from falling or climbing out. It is also used to refer to a translation of a text for close study, especially used secretly for cheating in an examination. In a broader context, "crib" can colloquially refer to someone's home or dwelling.
Webster Dictionary
Cribnoun
a manger or rack; a feeding place for animals
Cribnoun
a stall for oxen or other cattle
Cribnoun
a small inclosed bedstead or cot for a child
Cribnoun
a box or bin, or similar wooden structure, for storing grain, salt, etc.; as, a crib for corn or oats
Cribnoun
a hovel; a hut; a cottage
Cribnoun
a structure or frame of timber for a foundation, or for supporting a roof, or for lining a shaft
Cribnoun
a structure of logs to be anchored with stones; -- used for docks, pier, dams, etc
Cribnoun
a small raft of timber
Cribnoun
a small theft; anything purloined;; a plagiaris/; hence, a translation or key, etc., to aid a student in preparing or reciting his lessons
Cribnoun
a miner's luncheon
Cribnoun
the discarded cards which the dealer can use in scoring points in cribbage
Cribverb
to shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp
Cribverb
to pilfer or purloin; hence, to steal from an author; to appropriate; to plagiarize; as, to crib a line from Milton
Cribverb
to crowd together, or to be confined, as in a crib or in narrow accommodations
Cribverb
to make notes for dishonest use in recitation or examination
Cribverb
to seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind; -- said of a horse
Etymology: [AS. crybb; akin to OS. kribbja, D. krib, kribbe, Dan. krybbe, G. krippe, and perh. to MHG. krebe basket, G, korb, and E. rip a sort of wicker basket.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Crib
krib, n. the rack or manger of a stable: a stall for oxen: a child's bed; a small cottage or hovel, a confined place: (coll.) a translation of a classic baldly literal, for lazy schoolboys.—v.t. to put away in a crib, confine: to pilfer: to plagiarise:—pr.p. crib′bing; pa.p. cribbed.—n. Crib′-bit′ing, a vicious habit of horses, consisting in biting the manger. [A.S. crib; Ger. krippe.]
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
crib
A small berth in a packet.
Rap Dictionary
cribnoun
Home. Black Ceasar at the crib -- Public Enemy (Burn Hollywood Burn)
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of crib in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of crib in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of crib in a Sentence
My strategy, every time I get the ball, I ’m trying to go to the crib.
This was the first time in my life that I truly wept to the point of being sick in my body. I just laid over her bed, over her crib that I had prepared for her and looked up at the pictures on the wall and her clothes in her closet and just understanding that this is not happening right now.
I got up immediately and ran, the whole house shook and I ran and I told my husband, you can hear me, I think in the video, saying, ‘Kale, the window.’ I thought the window had shattered into his crib.
The day Richard was discharged from the NICU was such a special day. I remember picking him up out of his crib and just holding him with tears in my eyes, i couldn't believe this was the same little boy that once was so sick, that I feared he may not survive. The same little boy that once fit in the palm of my hand, with skin so translucent that I could see every rib and vessel in his tiny body. I couldn't help but squeeze him and tell him how proud I was of him.
The smoke and fire was so thick there was no way I could get to her, we went outside to get to her from the window, but there was nothing for me to stand on to reach up there. So I picked up Eli, who went through the window and was able to grab her from her crib.
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- пищов, детско креватче, ясли, преписвам, преписванеBulgarian
- tahákCzech
- krybbeDanish
- Gitterbett, Spickzettel, SchummelzettelGerman
- παχνί, κούνιαGreek
- luliloEsperanto
- chuleta, machete, cunaSpanish
- kaukalo, lunttilappu, pinnasänky, plagiarisoida, laari, lunttiFinnish
- berceau, antisèche, hucheFrench
- gyerekágyHungarian
- boks bayiIndonesian
- mangiatoia, greppiaItalian
- カンペ, まぐさ桶, カニングペーパーJapanese
- 구유Korean
- cunae, cunabulaLatin
- wieg, trog, plagiaat, voederbak, spiekbriefjeDutch
- krybbeNorwegian
- ściąga, kojec, żłóbPolish
- furto, berço, colaPortuguese
- ясли, закром, шпора, шпаргалкаRussian
- јасле, креветац, дјечји креветац, дечји креветац, dječji krevetac, krevetac, dečji krevetac, jasleSerbo-Croatian
- fusklapp, lathundSwedish
- nôiVietnamese
- 嬰兒床Chinese
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