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Crib


Definition:

  • (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.
  • (17) Find us on the Guardian website EducationGuardian.co.uk All today's EducationGuardian stories Follow us on Twitter and Facebook EducationGuardian on Twitter Judy Friedberg on Twitter Jeevan Vasagar on Twitter Jessica Shepherd on Twitter Claire Phipps on Twitter EducationGuardian on Facebook EducationGuardian resources The Guardian University Guide 2011 School league tables Postgrad tables The world's top 100 universities More education links on the Guardian Online learning and teaching resources from Learn Job vacancies in education More about Crib sheet Sign up to get Crib sheet as an email on Tuesdays To advertise in the Crib sheet email, contact Sunita Gordon on 0203 353 2447 or email sunita.gordon@guardian.co.uk
  • (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.

Wicker


Definition:

  • (n.) A small pliant twig or osier; a rod for making basketwork and the like; a withe.
  • (n.) Wickerwork; a piece of wickerwork, esp. a basket.
  • (n.) Same as 1st Wike.
  • (a.) Made of, or covered with, twigs or osiers, or wickerwork.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Wicker's (this issue) article on substantive theorizing outlines an approach to theory and research that helps communicate the structure and process of doing research on a complex area.
  • (2) Wicker, who chairs the NRSC, the organization tasked with keeping the Senate in Republicans’ control, has already committed to backing Trump.
  • (3) In between, I watch a parade of Berliner life: women chain-smoking in the pool’s trademark wicker chairs, fully clothed men sipping a morning beer in the 26C heat, kids jumping off the diving pier and screaming down the large waterslide.
  • (4) "Will I get burnt to death in a giant effigy of a man woven from wicker?"
  • (5) Canvasses from the UNHCR and Unicef, the children's agency, are piled haphazardly on to structures made out of wood with wicker roofs, sacking and animal skin.
  • (6) Man can’t change climate.” The quick thinking from Inhofe now leaves Wicker, the new chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, as the only Republican to still embrace the entire idea of climate change as a hoax.
  • (7) 32 Rose Street, +27 21 422 5883, larosecapetown.com The Blue House Facebook Twitter Pinterest Rooms in The Blue House look like they could be straight from the film set of Out Of Africa , with huge leather sofas, wicker armchairs and wooden tea chests.
  • (8) The NSA also intercepted the foreign communications of prominent journalists such as Tom Wicker of the New York Times and the popular satirical writer for the Washington Post, Art Buchwald.
  • (9) Wicker said they wanted to be a model for neighborhood kids, “who did not have the opportunity to see husband and wife and children, and people waking up every morning and going to work”.
  • (10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tara Wicker stands in front of the home she grew up in and still lives in today.
  • (11) The wicker coffin, draped in the flags of Great Britain and Brazil and an Arsenal scarf, and accompanied by an escort of Hell's Angels and the London Dixieland jazz band playing Just a Closer Walk with Thee, arrived at Golders Green crematorium in the midst of rain and storm.
  • (12) 6.20pm BST Beyond the belly Lots of food tips coming in - for deep-dish pizza at Gino's Eas t, tacos on the patio at Big Star in Wicker Park, for Franks N Dawgs in Lincoln Park (shark bacon, eggs, and scallop sausages) and Devil Dawgs .
  • (13) A handful of Republican senators joined Trump’s meeting with the leadership: Roger Wicker of Mississippi, Orrin Hatch of Utah, Deb Fischer of Nebraska, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Rob Portman of Ohio and Jeff Sessions of Alabama.
  • (14) From there we'll aim for Wicker Park , Chicago's hippest hood.
  • (15) In this rejoinder, I: (1) underscore the thrust of the choices Wicker has clarified and the p references he has recommended; (2) suggest an alternative route for the ecologically-oriented research process, one in which the conceptual and substantive "paths" have coequal and interdependent importance in determining the nature and direction of the research process; and (3) discuss in greater depth the search for universal laws.
  • (16) "Suspicious" Mail • Intercepted letters to Mississippi senator Roger Wicker and President Obama both initially tested positive for ricin and have been taken to the Fort Detrick lab for further testing.
  • (17) "The issue with The Wicker Man is there's a need by some folks in the media to think that we're not in on the joke.
  • (18) The English "folk horror" of the 70s is everywhere at the moment, with another cut of The Wicker Man recently released and Ben Wheatley's A Field in England a direct homage to the unhinged films that era.
  • (19) There's also a Wicker Man -style subplot where she gets her promiscuous comeuppance.
  • (20) Wicker (1989) urges the ecologyically-oriented psychologist to be more cognizant of the decision points implicit in the scientific enterprise.