(n.) A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals.
(n.) A stall for oxen or other cattle.
(n.) A small inclosed bedstead or cot for a child.
(n.) A box or bin, or similar wooden structure, for storing grain, salt, etc.; as, a crib for corn or oats.
(n.) A hovel; a hut; a cottage.
(n.) A structure or frame of timber for a foundation, or for supporting a roof, or for lining a shaft.
(n.) A structure of logs to be anchored with stones; -- used for docks, pier, dams, etc.
(n.) A small raft of timber.
(n.) A small theft; anything purloined;; a plagiaris/; hence, a translation or key, etc., to aid a student in preparing or reciting his lessons.
(n.) A miner's luncheon.
(n.) The discarded cards which the dealer can use in scoring points in cribbage.
(v. t.) To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
(v. t.) To pilfer or purloin; hence, to steal from an author; to appropriate; to plagiarize; as, to crib a line from Milton.
(v. i.) To crowd together, or to be confined, as in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
(v. i.) To make notes for dishonest use in recitation or examination.
(v. i.) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind; -- said of a horse.
Example Sentences:
(1) (vi) At 10 C crib-1 synthesizes unequal amounts of 25S and 17S ribosomal ribonucleic acid (rRNA) molecules, resulting from a greatly reduced accumulation of stable 17S rRNA.
(2) Police found a crib sheet on one of the detained men with phrases such as “great breasts” and “I want to f*** you” translated into German.
(3) When she was about two, three months old he bought me a stroller and a $700 crib.
(4) An additional 26 babies received BERA and one Crib-O-Gram test.
(5) In case of corn contamination by ochratoxin A, the analysis of technologic parameters conclude to question the drying corn with ears in cribs and the delayed drying after the reception of corn in storage corporation.
(6) The activities of choline acetyltransferase (ChAT), acetylcholinesterase (AChE), glutamate decarboxylase, and tyrosine hydroxylase in a number of brain regions are reported for this infant, two cases of crib death, and a group of normal adults.
(7) A recent report on a prospective study of more than 5,000 babies showed that all 3 infants who ultimately succumbed to crib death had had abnormally prolonged corrected QT intervals on day 4 of life; the report contends that that irregularity leads to ventricular fibrillation, which is then the immediate cause of death.
(8) The authors emphasize the importance of detecting the newborns at audiological risk and screening the neonates in order to get an early diagnosis and treatment of the affection, at least within the first year of life, to avoid or reduce the consequences of hearing loss; then they describe the procedure commonly in use at present for neonatal hearing screening and a number of available different diagnostic tools (electrodermal audiometry, heart rate audiometry--with the possibility of autoregressive analysis--respiration audiometry, autoregressive analysis of EEG, acoustic impedance measurements with study of the acoustic reflex, auditory response cradle which is also named CRIB-O-GRAM).
(9) And in the Crib Assessment and Purchasing Guide, which follows the Conclusions and Ratings, we provide general guidance to help readers evaluate cribs that were not included in this study.
(10) The 14th child, a 3-month-old white female infant, was found dead in her crib and had renal histopathologic findings consistent with the hemolytic-uremic syndrome.
(11) By the time they returned to their cribs, they were again asleep.
(12) A city which appears as if redesigned by the furnishers of MTV Cribs will appeal to those with a cruel sense of humour.
(13) A series of psychophysical lifting studies was conducted to establish maximum acceptable weights of lift (MAWL) for three supply items commonly handled in underground coal mines (rock dust bags, ventilation stopping blocks, and crib blocks).
(14) His scholarship, no doubt, was meagre but he could read Greek with the help of a dictionary and a crib and he loved it - that may astonish.
(15) The examination of 337 cases of Sudden Infant Death Syndorme (SIDS) ro Crib Deaths in Philadelphia, Penn., USA, and 294 cases in Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany, shows regional concentrations which are close to uncommon magnetic fields or stray electric currents in the ground.
(16) (v) After a shift from 10 to 25 C crib-1 exhibits a 12-h lag before the growth rate and the rate of synthesis of 37S subunits begin to increase significantly.
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(18) This period, four to six months postnatally, interestingly coincides with the peak incidence of sudden infant death syndrome (crib death), which similarly occurs at 3 to 5 months of age.
(19) We will place this heritage in our constitution, and we will put an end to those eternal debates which lead to Christmas cribs being banned from town halls .” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Front National MP Marion Maréchal-Le Pen.
(20) Finland is the best country for babies A baby sleeps in a Finnish maternity box that can be used as a first crib.
Drib
Definition:
(v. t.) To cut off by a little at a time; to crop.
(v. t.) To do by little and little
(v. t.) To appropriate unlawfully; to filch; to defalcate.
(v. t.) To lead along step by step; to entice.
(v. t. & i.) To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent.
(n.) A drop.
Example Sentences:
(1) And it will almost certainly continue arriving in dribs and drabs, based on the Sea Dragon's observations.
(2) Second half: Barcelona's players have been ready to start the second half for several minutes, while Inter's are emerging from the tunnel in dribs and drabs.
(3) Despite all the dribs and drabs of innovation in the ocean of old-media rules, we're beginning to see a kind of ideal on the horizon.
(4) A Km of 4.4 x 10(-4) M was calculated for dRib 5-P.
(5) After refugees entered the country anyway, using sleeping bags and clothes to blunt the fence’s barbs, the government began to allow thousands to cross through one specific point in the fence, instead of crossing in dribs and drabs along its entire length.
(6) People can come only in dribs and drabs, and I cannot live without people.
(7) People were being told to "get a shovel or stay at home", he said, adding that salt supplies were arriving in "dribs and drabs" when "they should have been here now".
(8) The leaked conversations have been released online in dribs and drabs over the past few months by an Islamist channel in Turkey, perhaps dampening their impact.
(9) Salt supplies were arriving in "dribs and drabs" when "they should have been here now".
(10) "The companies are ensuring that they come in dribs and drabs to avoid prosecution.
(11) In the case of HLA-DR, three DR beta-chain loci have been identified and linked, two of which (DR beta I and DR beta III, now assigned names HLA-DRIB and HLA-DR3B) are functional.
(12) Back at the precinct building the crowd had grown in size to around a hundred as people returned from I-94 blockade in dribs and drabs.
(13) To obtain insight into the recruitment of precursors for these cosubstrates, the authors also tested the enzyme activity of pyrimidine nucleoside phosphorylase with inosine and ribose-5-phosphate (Rib-5-P, as precursors for Rib-1-P) and deoxyinosine (as a precursor for dRib-1-P); enzyme activities were approximately 7%, 7%, and 3%, respectively, of that with the normal substrates, both in tumors and mucosa.
(14) "If there are people out there who think we have digested all this material, and [that] we have all these stories that we are going to feed out in dribs and drabs, then I think that misunderstands the nature of news.
(15) One drawback is that you don’t get the 25% tax-free lump sum all in one go but in dribs and drabs instead.