Pronunciations
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/ɹɪb/
Noun
Any of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans and other animals and extending from the spine to or toward the sternum.
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On an early winter afternoon, clear but not cold, when the vegetable world was a weird multitude of skeletons through whose ribs the sun shone freely, a gleaming landau came to a pause on the crest of a hill in Wessex.
A part or piece, similar to a rib, and serving to shape or support something.
Usage- broadly
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a broken rib on the umbrella
A cut of meat enclosing one or more rib bones.
Any of several curved members attached to a ship's keel and extending upward and outward to form the framework of the hull.
Any of several transverse pieces that provide an aircraft wing with shape and strength.
A long, narrow, usually arched member projecting from the surface of a structure, especially such a member separating the webs of a vault
A strip of metal running along the top of the barrel that serves as a sighting plane.
A raised ridge in knitted material or in cloth.
The main, or any of the prominent veins of a leaf.
A teasing joke.
A single strand of hair.
Usage- Ireland
- Colloquial
A stalk of celery.
A wife or woman.
Usage- Archaic
- Humorous
- Literary
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'Near to it was the portrait of his rib, Dame Middleton.'
Verb
To shape, support, or provide something with a rib or ribs.
To tease or make fun of someone in a good-natured way.
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He always gets ribbed for his outrageous shirts.
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Mr. Musk, who wore a suit and tie to Thursday’s meeting instead of his usual T-shirt after Mr. Trump publicly ribbed him about his sloppy appearance, defended himself by saying that he had three companies with a market cap of tens of billions of dollars, and that his results spoke for themselves.
To enclose, as if with ribs, and protect; to shut in.
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It [lead] were too gross To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave.
To leave strips of undisturbed ground between the furrows in ploughing (land).
Usage- Transitive
Noun
Hound's-tongue (Cynoglossum officinale).
Costmary (Tanacetum balsamita).
Watercress (Nasturtium officinale).
Noun
support resembling the rib of an animal
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any of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum in humans (and similar bones in most vertebrates)
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cut of meat including one or more ribs
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a teasing remark
a riblike supporting or strengthening part of an animal or plant
a projecting molding on the underside of a vault or ceiling; may be ornamental or structural
Verb
form vertical ribs by knitting
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A ribbed sweater
subject to laughter or ridicule
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The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house
The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher
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His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday