crib
A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who…A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.
» Leave the baby in the crib.
Оставь ребёнка в колыбели.
Залиш дитину в ліжечку.
Meaning
24 senses(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.
Gitterbett
де́тская крова́ткаdétskaja krovátka, крова́ткаkrovátka
дитя́че лі́жечкоdytjáče lížečko
baby bed with high sides made of slats
(UK, countable, uncountable)A bed for a child older than a baby.
(countable, uncountable)A small sleeping berth in a packet or other small vessel.
(countable, uncountable)A wicker basket.
(countable, uncountable)A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.
Krippe
я́слиjásli
(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.
(countable, uncountable)A bin for drying or storing grain, such as a corn crib.
за́кромzákrom
a bin or granary for storing grains
(countable, uncountable)A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.
(countable, uncountable)A confined space, such as a cage or office cubicle.
(countable, uncountable)A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.
(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.
(countable, usually plural, 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.
Examples
26 sentencesLeave the baby in the crib.
Залиш дитину в ліжечку. — deniko
ruОставь ребёнка в колыбели. — odexed
Tom put the baby in his crib.
deTom legte das Kind ins Bettchen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
The baby is in his crib, sucking on his pacifier.
The baby is sleeping in his crib.
Немовля спить у своєму ліжечку. — deniko
ruМладенец спит в своей кроватке. — Wezel
deDas Kind schläft in der Wiege. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Writing crib sheets is very useful.
ruШпаргалки писать очень полезно. — marafon
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English crib, cribbe, from Old English crib, cryb, cribb, crybb (“couch, bed;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”).
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Forms
plural: cribsSynonyms
5 synonymsWord family
17 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable