Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - crib
Crib
crib
n. & v. --n. 1 a a child's bed with barred or latticed sides; a cot. b a model of the Nativity of Christ, with a manger as a bed. 2 a barred container or rack for animal fodder. 3 colloq. a a translation of a text for the (esp. surreptitious) use of students. b plagiarized work etc. 4 a small house or cottage. 5 a framework lining the shaft of a mine. 6 colloq. a cribbage. b a set of cards given to the dealer at cribbage by all the players. 7 heavy crossed timbers used in foundations in loose soil etc. 8 sl. a brothel. 9 Austral. & NZ a light meal; food. --v.tr. (also absol.) (cribbed, cribbing) 1 colloq. copy (another person's work) unfairly or without acknowledgement. 2 confine in a small space. 3 colloq. pilfer, steal. 4 colloq. grumble. Phrases and idioms crib-biting a horse's habit of biting the manger while noisily breathing in and swallowing. Derivatives cribber n. Etymology: OE crib(b)
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English ~b; akin to Old High German krippa manger, and perhaps to Greek griphos reed basket Date: before 12th century a manger for feeding animals, an enclosure especially of framework: as, a stall for a stabled animal, a small child's bedstead with high enclosing usually slatted sides, any of various devices resembling a crate or framework in structure, a building for storage ; bin, 3. a small narrow room or dwelling ; hut, shack, a room or shack used for prostitution, the cards discarded in ~bage for the dealer to use in scoring, 5. a small theft, plagiarism, a literal translation, a summary and key to understanding a literary work, something used for cheating in an examination, creche 1, II. verb (~bed; ~bing) Date: 1605 transitive verb confine, cramp, to provide with or put into a ~, pilfer, steal, intransitive verb 1. steal, plagiarize, to use a ~ ; cheat, to have the vice of ~bing, ~ber noun ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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