crib

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

Noun

1. (US, countable, uncountable) A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.
2. (British, countable, uncountable) A bed for a child older than a baby.
3. (countable, uncountable) A small sleeping berth in a packet or other small vessel.
4. (countable, uncountable) A wicker basket.
5. (countable, uncountable) A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.
6. (countable, uncountable) 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.
7. (countable, uncountable) A bin for drying or storing grain, as with a corn crib.
8. (countable, uncountable) A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.
9. (countable, uncountable) A confined space, as with a cage or office-cubicle
10. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A job, a position; (British) an appointment.
11. (countable, uncountable) A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.
12. (countable, uncountable) 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.
13. (countable, plural-normally, uncountable) A collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort; a crib sheet.
14. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A minor theft, extortion or embezzlement, with or without criminal intent.
15. (countable, uncountable) The card game cribbage.
16. (countable, uncountable) The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.
17. (countable, uncountable) A known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then used to work out the remaining sections.
18. (New-Zealand, Southern, countable, uncountable) A small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction.
19. (Australia, New-Zealand, countable, uncountable) A snack or packed lunch, especially as taken to work to eat during a break.
20. (Canada, countable, uncountable) A small raft made of timber.
21. (UK, countable, obsolete, uncountable) The stomach.
22. (countable, uncountable) A literal translation, usually of a work originally in Latin or Ancient Greek.
23. (countable, slang, uncountable) A cheat sheet or past test used by students; crib sheet.
24. (countable, slang, uncountable) One’s residence, house or dwelling place, or usual place of resort.

Verb

1. (transitive) To place or confine in a crib.
2. To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
3. (transitive) 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.
4. (informal, transitive) To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.
5. (intransitive) To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
6. (archaic, transitive) To steal or embezzle.
7. (India) To complain, to grumble
8. To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
9. (intransitive) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.
10. To use a known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, to work out the remaining sections.

Συνώνυμα

cradle

manger

cot

baby bed

plagiarize

pony

copy

cribbage

steal

plagiarism

timber crib

purloin

rack

trot

cribwork

crèche

nativity scene

grillage

grating

confine

baby’s bed

cribbing

cup

cupule

cut down

defalcate

embezzle

frame

hammock

hamper

home

🏠

horse

🐴

hovel

ice

🧊

imitate

key

🔑

kidnap

larceny

limit

localise

localize

manager

matrix

mimic

minimize

nativity

nog

pad

pilfer

piracy

pirate

plagiarise

reduce

restrict

rifle

rink

rob

robbery

rocker

rodeo

scant

scrounge

seat

💺

small room

snitch

stall

stealing

stealth

stick

stint

straiten

swing

swipe

theft

thieve

thievery

tracing

transcription

trough

trundle

whorehouse

bawdy house

crib sheet

scotch

small bed

basinette

feed box

call house

crib-house

crib-joint

timber pack

wooden chock

wooden-frame

child's bed

crot

contain

cot

abridge

aide-memoire

bagnio

bassinet

bed

🛏️

brothel

bunk

byre

cabbage

cabin

cage

cheat

cheat sheet

cheat slip

circumscribe

cog

constrict

cop

👮

cramp

creche

Μεταφράσεις

cuna

Krippe

pesebre

berceau

belén

afkijken

spieken

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/kɹɪb/

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

Κληρονομήθηκε από Μέσα Αγγλικά: crib

Κληρονομήθηκε από Παλαιά Αγγλικά: crib

Συγγενές με Saterfriesisch: Kräbbe

Συγγενές με Δυτικά Φριζικά: krêbe

Συγγενές με Ολλανδικά: krib

Συγγενές με Γερμανικά: Krippe

Συγγενές με Δανικά: krybbe

Συγγενές με Ισλανδικά: krubba

In summary

From Middle English crib, cribbe, from Old English crib, cryb, cribb, crybb (“couch, bed; manger, stall”), from Proto-West Germanic *kribbjā, from Proto-Germanic *kribjǭ (“crib, wickerwork”), from Proto-Indo-European *grebʰ-, *gerbʰ- (“bunch, bundle, tuft, clump”), from *ger- (“to turn, twist”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Kräbbe, Krääb, Krääf (“crib”), West Frisian krêbe (“crib”), Dutch krib (“crib, manger”), German Krippe (“rack, crib”), Danish krybbe (“crib”), Icelandic krubba (“crib”). Doublet of crèche. The sense of ‘stealing, taking notes, plagiarize’ seems to have developed out of the verb.
The criminal sense may derive from the 'basket' sense, circa the mid 18th century, in that a poacher could conceal poachings in such a basket (see the 1772 Samuel Foote quotation). The cheating sense probably derives from the criminal sense.