What's the difference between jibe and vibe?

Jibe


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To shift, as the boom of a fore-and-aft sail, from one side of a vessel to the other when the wind is aft or on the quarter. See Gybe.
  • (v. i.) To change a ship's course so as to cause a shifting of the boom. See Jibe, v. t., and Gybe.
  • (v. t.) To agree; to harmonize.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He reiterated his jibe that the Republican convention had been like watching something from the past, a black-and-white newsreel.
  • (2) It seemed to be a jibe at the Serbs’ claims on Kosovo, whose population is overwhelmingly ethnic Albanian, and the photographs depicted on either side were equally inflammatory.
  • (3) Sal Russo, an influential strategist and founder of the Tea Party Express, said that even the terrorist jibe was a sign of success.
  • (4) The PBR took "no tough decisions", jibed the Conservatives, but it lopped £7bn off public spending and jacked up national insurance contributions by £3bn – fairly tough in anyone's book.
  • (5) Livingstone, the former London mayor, whose fractious relationship with the Standard reached a low point with his Nazi jibe at Jewish reporter Oliver Finegold , remains defiantly unapologetic about the incident and holds a healthy hatred of the title, now majority-owned by Russian businessman Alexander Lebedev.
  • (6) Berg's jibe was "there's no longer anything original or particularly provocative about bowel movements presented as art".
  • (7) Ferdinand directed a jibe at a Twitter follower containing the word ’sket’, which is understood to be a slang term taken to mean a promiscuous girl or woman.
  • (8) Take Channel 4 political correspondent, Michael Crick, who tweeted a cruel jibe made about Abbott by a London cabbie just to make a point about Jeremy Corbyn.
  • (9) I actually don’t drink.” He smiles when repeating Hayden’s jibe.
  • (10) Ignoring Osborne's jibe that to threaten a debt default was like threatening "to burn my own house down in protest", Salmond warned that if there was no deal on sterling, there would be no deal on Scotland paying its share of the £1.6tn of national debt expected by 2016.
  • (11) And in response to tabloid-inflated hysteria about an influx of Romanian and Bulgarian welfare-hounds, Johnson cracks a cheap jibe about Transylvanians and tents – an undisguised slur on the Roma.
  • (12) Now he has a 4-5% chance.” Later in the debate, Trump and Cruz went at each other’s jugulars a second time – on this occasion over Cruz’s recent jibe that Trump subscribed to “New York values”.
  • (13) Charlene White, a presenter on ITV News London, received insults on social media after she appeared on screen without the poppy, with many of the jibes focusing on her race.
  • (14) Corbyn v Cameron at PMQs: was 'bunch of migrants' jibe intentional?
  • (15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Donald Trump makes menstruation jibe at Megyn Kelly - audio Cruz said that Trump’s feud with Kelly was a sign of weakness: “If he thinks Megyn Kelly is so scary, what exactly would he do with Vladimir Putin?
  • (16) They’re both enjoying the challenge.” There have been inevitable jibes about Mauresmo being a woman working in men’s tennis.
  • (17) Corbyn v Cameron at PMQs: Google tax row sparks 'bunch of migrants' jibe Read more “They met with the unions and gave them flying pickets.
  • (18) Speaking at the launch of the new TechHub incubator in Old Street, the London mayor referred to Merkel’s jibe on Monday at the expense of Britain’s poor rural broadband.
  • (19) She is by far the most popular …" Ms Harman was careful not to smile at this gallant jibe, but most of the shadow cabinet thought it very droll and smiled happily.
  • (20) In the pantheon of American poets, Woody belongs midway between Walt Whitman and Bob Dylan , but it is his roots in Oklahoma that give his work an authentic voice, ringing out from the dusty midwestern plains: a welcome antidote to the easy jibe that, if you're poor and white in this part of the world, you're bound to be a redneck.

Vibe


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If this seems too self-consciously commercial you can still get on Radio 1; just throw in some sort of dubstep "vibe".
  • (2) Ben Lewis (@ben_lewis10) The 'vibe' of the #ICJ decision so far- #Whaling can be done for scientific research... but Japan doing on too big a scale.
  • (3) It’s almost like an 80s movie or something – the kind that studios don’t make anymore.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest There is a definite Big Chill vibe to Don’t Think Twice, a comedy that explores the thorny rifts between friends when one person’s newfound success threatens to alienate the group.
  • (4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Downtown Boise, Idaho’s capital with a small town vibe.
  • (5) It is very important now to continue that good vibe.” Spurs have already played the four clubs ahead of them in the table, as well as the four directly below, and now embark on a sequence of fixtures that, on paper at least, would appear to be less daunting.
  • (6) There’s still a vibe at The Orbit … a real atmosphere.
  • (7) During the court hearings it had emerged that Woolas's election agent, Joseph Fitzpatrick, had become convinced that the Lib Dems had built up sufficient momentum locally to defeat Woolas, or in Fitzpatrick's own words: "We are picking up the vibe that Phil is going to lose."
  • (8) Could you possibly be worried about the consequences of making a false certification – is that why you find yourself having to be sorry about the vibe rather than the substance?
  • (9) To underline the semi-communal vibe, the phrase "We're all in this together" has been daubed in various locations, and there are yurts for massages near the herb garden.
  • (10) It was “friendly, there was a good vibe”, Chigbo recalled.
  • (11) The often hedonistic vibe has prompted criticism of the fair, including accusations that it attracts scenesters with little real interest in contemporary art.
  • (12) Photograph: Nerea Palacios How did you channel the Game of Thrones vibe into athletic wear?
  • (13) Skrillex and Chance The Rapper Recess tracklist All is Fair In Love And Brostep with Ragga Twins Recess, with Kill the Noise, Fatman Scoop and Michael Angelakos Stranger, with KillaGraham from Milo and Otis and Sam Dew Try It Out (Neon Mix), with Alvin Risk Coast Is Clear, with Chance the Rapper and the Social Experiment Dirty Vibe, with Diplo, G-Dragon from Big Bang and CL from 2NE1 Ragga Bomb, with Ragga Twins Doompy Poomp Fuck That Ease My Mind, with Niki and the Dove Fire Away, with Kid Harpoon
  • (14) Nothing vibed until she met Ariel Rechtshaid in 2010, the musical alchemist behind Sky Ferreira , Solange and Haim's throwback pop collages, who was then a relative unknown.
  • (15) Its vibe is intimate conversation with an unlikely man, Alec Baldwin .
  • (16) The vibe on election day - I will miss it nicocarsher73 Voting for Thanks 86-year old Christinah Moeti, says she's voting out of gratefulness.
  • (17) They seemed to capture a late-1960s, early-1970s folk vibe that symbolised the era.
  • (18) This segment has been shown to be encoded by certain mRNA species only, due to alternative splicing [Kornblihtt, Vibe-Pedersen & Baralle (1984) Nucleic Acids Research 12, 5853-5868], and therefore represents a region of heterogeneity in fibronectin.
  • (19) • +30 22220 91453 Don't miss The alternative vibe on Skyros has been going on longer than you imagine.
  • (20) The visitors’ head coach, Dean Smith, complained about a congested fixture schedule which had left his depleted squad without payers such as Lasse Vibe and Alan Judge through injury.