CRIB (cribbed, cribbing)

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Irregular inflected forms: cribbed    , cribbing   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does crib mean? 

• CRIB (noun)
  The noun CRIB has 5 senses:

1. baby bed with high sides made of slats

2. a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)

3. a bin or granary for storing grains

4. the cards discarded by players at cribbage

5. a card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two

  Familiarity information: CRIB used as a noun is common.

• CRIB (verb)
  The verb CRIB has 3 senses:

1. use a crib, as in an exam

2. take unauthorized (intellectual material)

3. line with beams or planks

  Familiarity information: CRIB used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRIB (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Baby bed with high sides made of slats

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cot; crib

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 2

Meaning:

A literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

crib; pony; trot

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)

Sense 3

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 4

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 5

Meaning:

A card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

crib; cribbage

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)

• CRIB (verb)

Sense 1

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))

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:

Line with beams or planks

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

crib a construction hole

Hypernyms (to "crib" is one way to...):

line (cover the interior of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

I advanced; then paused by the crib side: my hand was on the curtain, but I preferred speaking before I withdrew it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

If my hair would only change colour, here’s a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.’

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The cause of crib death is not known.

(Crib death, NCI Dictionary)

We all find our own cribs.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A gang of burglars acting in the country might be expected to vary the scene of their operations, and not to crack two cribs in the same district within a few days.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was very sensible of my entertainer's goodness, and listened to the women's going to bed in another little crib like mine at the opposite end of the boat, and to him and Ham hanging up two hammocks for themselves on the hooks I had noticed in the roof, in a very luxurious state of mind, enhanced by my being sleepy.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The cards were brought, and Fanny played at cribbage with her aunt till bedtime; and as Sir Thomas was reading to himself, no sounds were heard in the room for the next two hours beyond the reckonings of the game—“And that makes thirty-one; four in hand and eight in crib.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Close by Miss Temple's bed, and half covered with its white curtains, there stood a little crib.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He’ll crack a crib in Scotland one week, and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“The worst of the story is,” said he, “that I show myself up as such a confounded fool. Of course it may work out all right, and I don’t see that I could have done otherwise; but if I have lost my crib and get nothing in exchange I shall feel what a soft Johnnie I have been.”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)