Closet vs. Crib

Closetnoun

(obsolete) Any private area, particularly bowers in the open air.

Cribnoun

(US) A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.

Closetnoun

Any private or inner room, particularly:

Cribnoun

(British) A bed for a child older than a baby.

Closetnoun

(obsolete) A private room used by women to groom and dress themselves.

Cribnoun

(nautical) A small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel

Closetnoun

(archaic) A private room used for prayer or other devotions.

Cribnoun

A wicker basket; compare Moses basket.

Closetnoun

A place of (usually fanciful) contemplation and theorizing.

Cribnoun

A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.

Closetnoun

(archaic) The private residence or private council chamber of a monarch.

Cribnoun

The baby Jesus and the manger in a creche or nativity scene, consisting of statues of Mary, Joseph and various other characters such as the magi.

Closetnoun

(obsolete) A pew or side-chapel reserved for a monarch or other feudal lord.

Cribnoun

A bin for drying or storing grain, as with a corn crib.

Closetnoun

A private cabinet, particularly:

Cribnoun

A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.

Closetnoun

(obsolete) One used to store valuables.

Cribnoun

A confined space, as with a cage or office-cubicle

Closetnoun

(archaic) One used to store curiosities.

Cribnoun

(obsolete) A job, a position; (British), an appointment.

Closetnoun

One used to store food or other household supplies: a cupboard.

Cribnoun

A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.

Closetnoun

(figuratively) A secret or hiding place, particularly the hiding place in English idioms such as in the closet and skeleton in the closet.

‘The closet can be a scary place for a gay teenager.’;

Cribnoun

(slang) One’s residence, or where one normally hangs out. A house or dwelling place.

Closetnoun

Any small room or side-room, particularly:

Cribnoun

A boxy structure traditionally built of heavy wooden timbers, to support an existing structure from below, as with a mineshaft or a building being raised off its foundation in preparation for being moved; see cribbing.

Closetnoun

(US) One intended for storing clothes or bedclothes.

Cribnoun

A collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort; a crib sheet.

Closetnoun

(obsolete) nodot=a or later (UK) water closet: a room containing a toilet.

Cribnoun

(obsolete) A minor theft, extortion or embezzlement, with or without criminal intent.

Closetnoun

(heraldry) An ordinary similar to a bar but half as broad.

Cribnoun

(cribbage) The card game cribbage.

Closetnoun

A sewer.

Cribnoun

(cribbage) The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.

Closetadjective

(obsolete) Private.

Cribnoun

(cryptography) A known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then used to work out the remaining sections.

Closetadjective

Secret, especially with reference to gay people who are in the closet; closeted.

‘He's a closet case.’;

Cribnoun

A small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction.

Closetverb

(transitive) To shut away for private discussion.

‘The ambassador has been closeted with the prime minister all afternoon. We're all worried what will be announced when they exit.’;

Cribnoun

A packed lunch taken to work.

Closetverb

(transitive) To put into a private place for a secret interview or interrogation.

Cribnoun

(Canada) A small raft made of timber.

Closetverb

(transitive) To shut up in, or as in, a closet for concealment or confinement.

Cribnoun

The stomach.

Closetnoun

A small room or apartment for retirement; a room for privacy.

‘A chair-lumbered closet, just twelve feet by nine.’; ‘When thou prayest, enter into thy closet.’;

Cribnoun

(slang) A cheat sheet or past test used by students; crib sheet.

Closetnoun

A small apartment, or recess in the side of a room, for household utensils, clothing, etc.

Cribverb

(transitive) To place or confine in a crib.

Closetverb

To shut up in, or as in, a closet; to conceal.

‘Bedlam's closeted and handcuffed charge.’;

Cribverb

To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.

Closetverb

To make into a closet for a secret interview.

‘He was to call a new legislature, to closet its members.’; ‘He had been closeted with De Quadra.’;

Cribverb

(transitive) To collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet.

‘I cribbed the recipe from the Food Network site, but made a few changes of my own.’;

Closetnoun

a small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space

Cribverb

To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.

Closetnoun

a toilet in England

Cribverb

(intransitive) To install timber supports, as with cribbing.

Closetnoun

a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes

Cribverb

To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of.

Closetnoun

a small private room for study or prayer

Cribverb

(Indian English) To complain, to grumble

Closetverb

confine to a small space, as for intensive work

Cribverb

To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.

Closetadjective

(of information) given in confidence or in secret;

‘closet information’; ‘this arrangement must be kept confidential’; ‘their secret communications’;

Cribverb

To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.

Closetadjective

indulging only covertly;

‘a closet alcoholic’; ‘closet liberals’;

Cribnoun

A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals.

‘The steer lion at one crib shall meet.’;

Closetnoun

a tall cupboard or wardrobe with a door, used for storage

‘he has a closet full of designer suits’;

Cribnoun

A stall for oxen or other cattle.

‘Where no oxen are, the crib is clean.’;

Closetnoun

a small room, especially one used for storing things or for private study.

Cribnoun

A small inclosed bedstead or cot for a child.

Closetnoun

short for water closet

Cribnoun

A box or bin, or similar wooden structure, for storing grain, salt, etc.; as, a crib for corn or oats.

Closetnoun

used to refer to a state of secrecy or concealment, especially about one's homosexuality

‘she tries to have a relationship with another woman while remaining in the closet’; ‘his brother's decision to come out of the closet’;

Cribnoun

A hovel; a hut; a cottage.

‘Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, . . . Than in the perfumed chambers of the great?’;

Closetadjective

secret; covert

‘a closet smoker’;

Cribnoun

A structure or frame of timber for a foundation, or for supporting a roof, or for lining a shaft.

Closetverb

shut (someone) away, especially in private conference or study

‘he returned home and closeted himself in his room’; ‘he was closeted with the king’;

Cribnoun

A structure of logs to be anchored with stones; - used for docks, pier, dams, etc.

Closet

A closet (especially in North American usage) is an enclosed space, with a door, used for storage, particularly that of clothes. Fitted closets are built into the walls of the house so that they take up no apparent space in the room.

Cribnoun

A small raft of timber.

Cribnoun

A small theft; anything purloined; a plagiarism; hence, a translation or key, etc., to aid a student in preparing or reciting his lessons.

‘The Latin version technically called a crib.’; ‘Occasional perusal of the Pagan writers, assisted by a crib.’;

Cribnoun

A miner's luncheon.

Cribnoun

The discarded cards which the dealer can use in scoring points in cribbage.

Cribverb

To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.

‘If only the vital energy be not cribbed or cramped.’; ‘Now I am cabin'd, cribbed, confined.’;

Cribverb

To pilfer or purloin; hence, to steal from an author; to appropriate; to plagiarize; as, to crib a line from Milton.

‘Child, being fond of toys, cribbed the necklace.’;

Cribverb

To crowd together, or to be confined, as in a crib or in narrow accommodations.

‘Who sought to make . . . bishops to crib in a Presbyterian trundle bed.’;

Cribverb

To make notes for dishonest use in recitation or examination.

Cribverb

To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind; - said of a horse.

Cribnoun

baby bed with high sides

Cribnoun

a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)

Cribnoun

a card game in which each player is dealt 6 cards and discards one or two to make up the crib

Cribverb

use a crib, as in an exam

Cribverb

take unauthorized (intellectual material)

Cribverb

line with beams or planks;

‘crib a construction hole’;