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"CRIBS" is a plural of: crib. |
Date "CRIBS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | Segments of oak to encircle the shaft. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: CRIBSSynonym: Children's furniture. (additional references) |
Crosswords: CRIBS |
| Specialty definitions using "CRIBS": ANIMAL-NURSERY WORKER ♦ boat joiner, breaker props ♦ children's zoo caretaker, controlled caving ♦ hanging sets ♦ open-crib timbering, open-stope method ♦ prop-crib timbering ♦ SCHOPENHAUER, solid crib timbering. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Cribs (2000) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Harwood, North Dakota. Open corn cribs for winter storage. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "CRIBS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "CRIBS" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 83.33% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cribs.com mtv | 44 |
bonavita cribs.com | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CRIBS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | Krippen (daynurseries, mangers), Eselsbrücken. (various references) | ||||
Hungarian | puska (cheat sheet, crib, crib notes, gun, hand-gun, musket, popper, rifle). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ibscray | ||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "CRIBS": corncribs. (additional references) | |
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"CRIBS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: caribs, Ceibe, cgi, Cgis, chrib, Cibc, cibs, Cibse, cirvs, cnib, corbis, Craib, creb, crebo, cribb, cribe, cribu, cris, criss, crits, Cruibh, Cryiib, crys, krabs, krib. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CRIBS" (pronounced kri"bz) |
| 4 | -r i" b z | dribs, ribs. |
| 3 | -i" b z | bibbs, bibs, dibs, nibs. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-i-r-s" | |
-1 letter: bris, crib, cris, ribs. | |
-2 letters: bis, cis, rib, sib, sic, sir, sri. | |
-3 letters: bi, is, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-i-r-s" | |
+1 letter: bricks, scribe, sorbic. | |
+2 letters: ascribe, bicarbs, bickers, bicrons, birches, brucins, caribes, corbies, fabrics, rubrics, scribal, scribed, scriber, scribes, strobic, suberic. | |
+3 letters: abstrict, aerobics, arabicas, ascorbic, ascribed, ascribes, baldrics, bawdrics, becrimes, besmirch, bicolors, bicornes, bisector, bistroic, bracings, brackish, brassica, breccias, brickles, bricoles, brioches, brisance, britches, brocolis, brucines, calibers, calibres, cambrics, carabids, carabins, carbides, carbines, caribous, catbirds, climbers, corbeils, corbinas, cowbirds, crabwise, cribbers, cribrous, curbings, curbside, describe, icebergs, inscribe, isobaric, microbes, microbus, pibrochs, robotics, saprobic, scabbier, scribble, scribers, scribing, subacrid, subvicar, tribasic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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