crib
To place or confine in a cribTo place or confine in a crib.
Recorded US: Sylvanmoon, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
» Leave the baby in the crib.
Оставь ребёнка в колыбели. — odexed
Залиш дитину в ліжечку. — deniko
CK · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
10 senses(transitive)To place or confine in a crib.
use a crib, as in an exam
To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
(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.
I cribbed the recipe from the Food Network site, but made a few changes of my own.
(informal, transitive)To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.
спи́сыватьspísyvatʹ
(intransitive)To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
(India)To complain, to grumble
To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
(intransitive)To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.
To use a known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, to work out the remaining sections.
(archaic, transitive)To steal or embezzle.
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
2 languagesOrigin
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
cribs, cribbing, cribbed, cribbedWord family
3 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.