Cribbing - English meaning

Cribbing – definitions in English dictionary

verb
Copy (another person's work) illicitly or without acknowledgement.
Usage examples:
He was doing an exam and didn't want anybody to crib the answers from him
Synonims:
Copy Reproduce Duplicate Appropriate Plagiarize Poach Steal Bootleg Pirate Rip off Lift Nick Pinch Monkey
verb
Restrain.
Usage examples:
He had been so cabined, cribbed, and confined by office
verb
Grumble.
Usage examples:
Those guys have nothing to crib about

noun
A child's bed with barred or latticed sides; a cot.
Usage examples:
Tiptoeing over to the crib, he looked down at the sleeping child

noun
A translation of a text for use by students, especially in a surreptitious way.
Usage examples:
An english crib of caesar's gallic wars

noun
A person's apartment or house.
Usage examples:
There's a chance you might not get back to your crib tonight

noun
The cards discarded by the players at cribbage, counting to the dealer.
Usage examples:
He would play crib with zest

noun
A heavy timber framework used in foundations for a building or to line a mineshaft.
Usage examples:
On the interior, the building was further divided into two cribs made of slats with an open work sp…

noun
A light meal; a snack.
Usage examples:
I was carrying my crib in a paper bag

Present participle of crib informal disapproving

Cribbing translation into English

Cribbing: translate from English into Chinese

抄袭, 拘禁, 饲槽

Cribbing: translate from English into Dutch

Kribbebijten, Afkijken, Spieken, Gappen

Cribbing: translate from English into French

Berceau, Copier, Enfermer, Voler

Cribbing: translate from English into German

Kriechen, Abschreiben, Klauen, Spicken

Cribbing: translate from English into Hindi

पालना, वायु भक्षण अथवा वायु निगरण

Cribbing: translate from English into Italian

Presepe, Copiare

Cribbing: translate from English into Korean

아기 침대, 구유를 비치하다, 구유를 두다, 무단 사용하다, 밀어넣다, 구유를 물어뜯다, 여물통을 물어뜯다

Cribbing: translate from English into Russian

Списывание, Совершать плагиат, Запирать, Заключать в тесное помещение, Списать, Красть, Воровать, Списывать тайком, Пользоваться шпаргалкой

Cribbing: translate from English into Spanish

Apuntalando, Plagiar, Hurtar, Cuidar a un niño

Word origin

Old English (in the sense ‘manger’), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch krib, kribbe and German Krippe .

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Cribbing – similar words

cribbed

verb
Copy (another person's work) illicitly or without acknowledgement.
Usage examples:
He was doing an exam and didn't want anybody to crib the answers from him

noun
A child's bed with barred or latticed sides; a cot.
Usage examples:
Tiptoeing over to the crib, he looked down at the sleeping child

noun
A translation of a text for use by students, especially in a surreptitious way.
Usage examples:
An english crib of caesar's gallic wars

Cribbed - all meanings in English

crib

noun
A child's bed with barred or latticed sides; a cot.
Usage examples:
Tiptoeing over to the crib, he looked down at the sleeping child

verb
Short for cribbage.
Usage examples:
He would play crib with zest

Crib - all meanings in English

Cribbing synonims

appropriate

adjective
Suitable or proper in the circumstances.
Usage examples:
This isn't the appropriate time or place

verb
Take (something) for one's own use, typically without the owner's permission.
Usage examples:
The accused had appropriated the property

Suitable for a particular person, place, or situation

Appropriate - all meanings in English

bootleg

adjective
(of alcoholic drink or a recording) made, distributed, or sold illegally.
Usage examples:
Bootleg cassettes

verb
Make, distribute, or sell (alcoholic drink or a recording) illegally.
Usage examples:
He amassed a fortune bootlegging whisky

noun
An illegal musical recording, especially one made at a concert.

Bootleg - all meanings in English

copy

noun
A thing made to be similar or identical to another.
Usage examples:
The problem is telling which is the original document and which the copy

verb
Make a similar or identical version of; reproduce.
Usage examples:
Each form had to be copied and sent to a different department

verb
To produce something that is exactly like another thing, or to do something meant to be like someone or something else
Usage examples:
The design was copied from a 19th-century wallpaper., he copied the file onto a diskette., she writ…

Copy - all meanings in English

duplicate

adjective
Exactly like something else, especially through having been copied.
Usage examples:
A duplicate set of keys

noun
One of two or more identical things.
Usage examples:
Books may be disposed of if they are duplicates

verb
Short for duplicate bridge.

Duplicate - all meanings in English

lift

verb
Raise to a higher position or level.
Usage examples:
He lifted his trophy over his head

noun
A platform or compartment housed in a shaft for raising and lowering people or things to different levels.
Usage examples:
Alice went up to the second floor in the lift

verb
To move something from a lower to a higher position
Usage examples:
[ t ] i can’t lift you up – you’re a big boy now!, [ i always + adv/prep ] the top of the stool lif…

Lift - all meanings in English

monkey

noun
A small to medium-sized primate that typically has a long tail, most kinds of which live in trees in tropical countries.
Usage examples:
It was a place where you can see wild monkeys living in the trees.

verb
Behave in a silly or playful way.
Usage examples:
I saw them monkeying about by the shop

noun
Any of various long-tailed primates

Monkey - all meanings in English

nick

noun
A small cut or notch.
Usage examples:
A small nick on his wrist

verb
Make a nick or nicks in.
Usage examples:
He had nicked himself while shaving

verb
Go quickly or surreptitiously.
Usage examples:
They nicked across the road

Nick - all meanings in English

pinch

verb
Grip (something, typically a person's flesh) tightly and sharply between finger and thumb.
Usage examples:
She pinched his cheek

noun
An act of pinching someone.
Usage examples:
He gave her a gentle pinch

verb
Squeeze tightly between the fingers

Pinch - all meanings in English

pirate

noun
A person who attacks and robs ships at sea.
Usage examples:
In the three weeks leading up to the attack, sixteen container ships had been boarded by pirates

verb
Use or reproduce (another's work) for profit without permission, usually in contravention of patent or copyright.
Usage examples:
His latest album has been pirated and downloaded so many times since its release that he's lost $10…

verb
Someone who robs and plunders at sea

Pirate - all meanings in English

plagiarize

verb
Take (the work or an idea of someone else) and pass it off as one's own.
Usage examples:
He was fined $6,000 for having plagiarized the song

verb
To use another person’s idea or a part of that person's work and pretend that it is your own
Usage examples:
She’s been accused of plagiarism.

Plagiarize - all meanings in English

poach

verb
Cook (an egg) without its shell in or over boiling water.
Usage examples:
A breakfast of poached egg and grilled bacon

verb
Illegally hunt or catch (game or fish) on land that is not one's own or in contravention of official protection.
Usage examples:
20 tigers are thought to have been poached from national parks

verb
To cook something in water or another liquid that is almost boiling
Usage examples:
Poached eggs, [ t ] anybody you see with a piece of ivory has poached it., [ i ] foreign fishing bo…

Poach - all meanings in English

reproduce

verb
Produce a copy of.
Usage examples:
His works are reproduced on postcards and posters

Reproduce - all meanings in English

steal

verb
Take (another person's property) without permission or legal right and without intending to return it.
Usage examples:
Thieves stole her bicycle

noun
A bargain.
Usage examples:
At £59.95 it's an absolute steal

verb
Take without the owner's consent

Steal - all meanings in English

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