(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.
Embezzle
Definition:
(v. t.) To appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as property intrusted to one's care; to apply to one's private uses by a breach of trust; as, to embezzle money held in trust.
(v. t.) To misappropriate; to waste; to dissipate in extravagance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Navalny, represented by two defence lawyers, will argue that he did not lead a criminal group to embezzle 16m roubles (£333,000) from Kirovles, a state-run timber firm, while advising the region's liberal governor, Nikita Belykh.
(2) Special prosecutors investigating Park’s relationship with her longtime confidante , Choi Soon-sil, had demanded Lee’s arrest on charges of bribery, embezzlement and perjury.
(3) He used the pre-recorded speech to deny accusations of embezzlement, saying: "They aim to tarnish my reputation and discredit my integrity, my stance, my political and military history during which I worked hard for Egypt and its people in peace and war."
(4) His former deputy prime minister, Damir Polančec, was charged in September in the biggest case concerning alleged embezzlement and money laundering to the tune of €60m (£50m) at the country's largest food company.
(5) If if was corrupt it should never have been here.” Last month the EU froze assets of former president Yanukovych, and 21 other people held responsible for embezzling state funds.
(6) The former managing director of a state car plant in Georgia is not bitter, either, about the accusations of embezzlement and misuse of public funds.
(7) Navalny, who led mass protests against Vladimir Putin three years ago, was handed a suspended sentence on 30 December after being found guilty of embezzling money in a trial that led to his brother being jailed on similar charges.
(8) Navalny was sentenced to five years in prison for embezzlement on Thursday in Kirov, but prosecutors unexpectedly asked for his release the next morning.
(9) GFHC, a subsidiary of the Bahrain-based investment bank Gulf Finance House, accuse the former Leeds managing director of fraud and embezzlement, with detailed documents alleging he fabricated at least 55 invoices to secure payments to five different bank accounts, two in Dubai and three in the UK.
(10) Khodorkovsky and Lebedev are accused of embezzling the entire crude oil production of Yukos over a six-year period.
(11) It was like a bomb went off in the room.” Arrest the thieves and embezzlers who are plundering Iraq | Letters Read more Abadi has placed much of his political stock on his reform drive, which he sees as essential to holding the country together.
(12) But on Wednesday morning the eyes of the Russian elite – from ministers to Kremlin critics – will be on an unassuming courthouse in the centre of this city, where Alexey Navalny, Vladimir Putin's loudest foe, will go on trial charged with embezzlement.
(13) The charges relate to alleged embezzlement by her husband, Iñaki Urdangarin.
(14) At a press conference on Thursday, the Ivorian state prosecutor Simplice Kouadia Koffi said the couple were accused of "aggravated theft, attacks on the national economy, embezzlement of public funds and pillage".
(15) I will continue to represent the interests of people who want Russia to be a normal, honest, not corrupt country.” In a trial widely seen as a means of silencing him, Navalny was convicted of embezzlement from a state timber company in Kirov in 2013, but he was allowed to run for mayor of Moscow while he appealed against the ruling.
(16) A judge in the provincial city of Kirov, 500 miles north-east of Moscow, found Navalny guilty of embezzling 16m roubles (£300,000) from a timber firm while advising the region's liberal governor in 2009.
(17) 7.27pm BST EU foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg agreed to add four names to the list of people whose assets in the European Union have been blocked for allegedly embezzling Ukrainian state property under fugitive pro-Moscow president Viktor Yanukovych, the Associated Press reports: The new names, which brought the total to 22, including Yanukovych himself, are to be made public Tuesday.
(18) Khodorkovsky, 47, an oil tycoon who was arrested in 2003 and sentenced to eight years in jail for fraud two years later, will appear in court in Moscow today to hear the verdict in his second trial on embezzlement charges.
(19) According to state media, Ji Jianye is being investigated for "severe violations of discipline and law" – a euphemism for embezzlement, bribery and other official abuses.
(20) He has been convicted on politically motivated embezzlement charges that have been described as "bizarre" and is not due for release until 2023.