rib
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
anatomy
architecture
biology
botany
business
engineering
firearms
government
knitting
manufacturing
medicine
military
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
politics
sciences
textiles
tools
transport
war
weaponry
Etymology: From Middle English rib, ribbe, from Old English ribb (“rib”), from Proto-West Germanic *ribi, from Proto-Germanic *ribją (“rib, reef”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rebʰ- (“arch, ceiling, cover”).
Cognate with Dutch rib (“rib”), Norwegian ribbe (“sparerib”), Norwegian ribben (“rib”), Low German ribbe (“rib”), German Rippe (“rib”), Old Norse rif (“rib, reef”), Serbo-Croatian rèbro (“rib”).
(wife or woman): In reference to the creation of Eve from Adam's rib in the Bible.
Inflected forms:
form: ribs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ribs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ribbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ribbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ribbed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A part or piece, similar to a rib, and serving to shape or support something.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: a broken rib on the umbrella
gloss: A cut of meat enclosing one or more rib bones.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several curved members attached to a ship's keel and extending upward and outward to form the framework of the hull.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several transverse pieces that provide an aircraft wing with shape and strength.
pos: noun
gloss: A long, narrow, usually arched member projecting from the surface of a structure, especially such a member separating the webs of a vault
pos: noun
gloss: A strip of metal running along the top of the barrel that serves as a sighting plane.
pos: noun
gloss: A raised ridge in knitted material or in cloth.
pos: noun
gloss: The main, or any of the prominent veins of a leaf.
pos: noun
gloss: A teasing joke.
pos: noun
gloss: A single strand of hair.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
colloquial
gloss: A stalk of celery.
pos: noun
gloss: A wife or woman.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
humorous
literary
examples: 'Near to it was the portrait of his rib, Dame Middleton.'
gloss: To shape, support, or provide something with a rib or ribs.
pos: verb
gloss: To tease or make fun of someone in a good-natured way.
pos: verb
examples: He always gets ribbed for his outrageous shirts.
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.
gloss: To enclose, as if with ribs, and protect; to shut in.
pos: verb
examples: It [lead] were too gross
 To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave.
gloss: To leave strips of undisturbed ground between the furrows in ploughing (land).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: abdominal rib
baby back rib
baldrib
beef rib
chuck rib
Dogrib
false rib
floating rib
flying rib
forerib
lierne rib
middle rib
midrib
prime rib
ribband
ribbed vault
ribber
ribbie
ribby
rib-cage
ribcage
ribectomy
rib eye
rib-eye
ribeye
ribeye steak
rib eye steak
rib-eye steak
rib-faced deer
ribgrass
ribless
riblet
riblike
rib-rack
ribroast
ribspare
ribsteak
rib steak
ribstone
rib-tickler
rib-tickling
rib vault
ribwich
ribwork
ribwort
short rib
sparerib
spare rib
spare-rib
spear-rib
standing rib
stick to one's ribs
toby rib
transverse rib
true rib
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