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CRIB
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Irregular inflected forms: cribbed , cribbing
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two
Synonyms:
crib; cribbage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("crib" is a kind of...):
card game; cards (a game played with playing cards)
Meronyms (parts of "crib"):
crib (the cards discarded by players at cribbage)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The cards discarded by players at cribbage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("crib" is a kind of...):
playing card (one of a pack of cards that are used to play card games)
Holonyms ("crib" is a part of...):
crib; cribbage (a card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Baby bed with high sides made of slats
Synonyms:
cot; crib
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("crib" is a kind of...):
baby's bed; baby bed (a small bed for babies; enclosed by sides to prevent the baby from falling)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A bin or granary for storing grains
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("crib" is a kind of...):
bin (a container; usually has a lid)
garner; granary (a storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crib"):
corncrib (a crib for storing and drying ears of corn)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("crib" is a kind of...):
interlingual rendition; rendering; translation; version (a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language)
Derivation:
crib (use a crib, as in an exam)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Line with beams or planks
Example:
crib a construction hole
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "crib" is one way to...):
line (cover the interior of)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Take unauthorized (intellectual material)
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "crib" is one way to...):
lift; plagiarise; plagiarize (take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property)
Domain category:
crime; criminal offence; criminal offense; law-breaking ((criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
They crib the goods
Sense 3
Meaning:
Use a crib, as in an exam
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "crib" is one way to...):
cheat; chisel (engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
crib (a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly))
Context examples:
I got on to her crib and kissed her: her forehead was cold, and her cheek both cold and thin, and so were her hand and wrist; but she smiled as of old.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I then sat with my doll on my knee till the fire got low, glancing round occasionally to make sure that nothing worse than myself haunted the shadowy room; and when the embers sank to a dull red, I undressed hastily, tugging at knots and strings as I best might, and sought shelter from cold and darkness in my crib.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
No, Bessie: she came to my crib last night when you were gone down to supper, and said I need not disturb her in the morning, or my cousins either; and she told me to remember that she had always been my best friend, and to speak of her and be grateful to her accordingly.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
To this crib I always took my doll; human beings must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objects of affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving and cherishing a faded graven image, shabby as a miniature scarecrow.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I had risen half-an-hour before her entrance, and had washed my face, and put on my clothes by the light of a half-moon just setting, whose rays streamed through the narrow window near my crib.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I was not reprimanded for leaving my bed; people had something else to think about; no explanation was afforded then to my many questions; but a day or two afterwards I learned that Miss Temple, on returning to her own room at dawn, had found me laid in the little crib; my face against Helen Burns's shoulder, my arms round her neck.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Mrs. Reed was rather a stout woman; but, on hearing this strange and audacious declaration, she ran nimbly up the stair, swept me like a whirlwind into the nursery, and crushing me down on the edge of my crib, dared me in an emphatic voice to rise from that place, or utter one syllable during the remainder of the day.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
