Closet vs. Crib — What's the Difference?

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.

A bed with high sides for a young child or baby.

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

A small building, usually with slatted sides, for storing corn.

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

A rack or trough for fodder; a manger.

Secret; covert

A stall for cattle.

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

A small crude cottage or room.

A cabinet or enclosed recess for linens, household supplies, or clothing.

(Slang) One's home.

A small private chamber, as for study or prayer.

A framework to support or strengthen a mine or shaft.

A water closet; a toilet.

A wicker basket.

A state of secrecy or cautious privacy

A petty theft.

To enclose or shut up in a private room, as for discussion

Plagiarism.

Private; confidential

See pony.

Being so or engaging only in private; secret

See cheat sheet.

Based on theory and speculation rather than practice.

(Games) A set of cards made up from discards by each player in cribbage, used by the dealer.

A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies.

To confine or cramp.

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

To furnish with a crib.

Any private or inner room, particularly:

To plagiarize (an idea or answer, for example).

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

To steal.

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

To plagiarize; cheat.

A place of fanciful contemplation and theorizing.

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

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

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

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

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

A private cabinet, particularly:

A wicker basket.

(obsolete) One used to store valuables.

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

(archaic) One used to store curiosities.

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.

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

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

(slang, uncommon) closet case.

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

Any small room or side-room, particularly:

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

One intended for storing clothes or bedclothes.

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

(obsolete) nodot=a, water closet: a room containing a toilet.

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

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

One’s residence, house or dwelling place, or usual place of resort.

A sewer.

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.

A state or condition of secrecy, privacy, or obscurity.

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.

(obsolete) private

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

Closeted, secret (especially with reference to gay people who are in the closet)

(cribbage) The card game cribbage.

Denoting anything kept a secret or private.

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

(transitive) To shut away for private discussion.

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

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

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

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

A snack or packed lunch, especially as taken to work to eat during a break.

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

(Canada) A small raft made of timber.

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

The stomach.

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

A literal translation, usually of a work originally in Latin or Ancient Greek.

To make into a closet for a secret interview.

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

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

(transitive) To place or confine in a crib.

A toilet in England

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

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

(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.

A small private room for study or prayer

To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.

Confine to a small space, as for intensive work

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

(of information) given in confidence or in secret;

To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of.

Indulging only covertly;

(Indian English) To complain, to grumble

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

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

A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals.

A stall for oxen or other cattle.

A small inclosed bedstead or cot for a child.

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

A hovel; a hut; a cottage.

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

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

A small raft of timber.

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

A miner's luncheon.

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

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

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

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

To make notes for dishonest use in recitation or examination.

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

Baby bed with high sides

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

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

Use a crib, as in an exam

Take unauthorized (intellectual material)

Line with beams or planks;