Closet vs. Crib — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Closet and Crib
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Definitions
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.
Crib➦
A bed with high sides for a young child or baby.
Closet➦
A tall cupboard or wardrobe with a door, used for storage
He has a closet full of designer suits
Crib➦
A small building, usually with slatted sides, for storing corn.
Closet➦
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
Crib➦
A rack or trough for fodder; a manger.
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Closet➦
Secret; covert
A closet smoker
Crib➦
A stall for cattle.
Closet➦
Shut (someone) away, especially in private conference or study
He returned home and closeted himself in his room
He was closeted with the king
Crib➦
A small crude cottage or room.
Closet➦
A cabinet or enclosed recess for linens, household supplies, or clothing.
Crib➦
(Slang) One's home.
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Closet➦
A small private chamber, as for study or prayer.
Crib➦
A framework to support or strengthen a mine or shaft.
Closet➦
A water closet; a toilet.
Crib➦
A wicker basket.
Closet➦
A state of secrecy or cautious privacy
Two days before the election, the candidate suddenly came out of the closet and denounced the proposed law.
Crib➦
A petty theft.
Closet➦
To enclose or shut up in a private room, as for discussion
Closeted themselves with their attorneys.
Crib➦
Plagiarism.
Closet➦
Private; confidential
Closet information.
Crib➦
See pony.
Closet➦
Being so or engaging only in private; secret
A closet proponent of a tax increase.
A closet alcoholic.
Crib➦
See cheat sheet.
Closet➦
Based on theory and speculation rather than practice.
Crib➦
(Games) A set of cards made up from discards by each player in cribbage, used by the dealer.
Closet➦
A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies.
Crib➦
To confine or cramp.
Closet➦
(obsolete) Any private space, particularly bowers in the open air.
Crib➦
To furnish with a crib.
Closet➦
Any private or inner room, particularly:
Crib➦
To plagiarize (an idea or answer, for example).
Closet➦
(obsolete) A private room used by women to groom and dress themselves.
Crib➦
To steal.
Closet➦
(archaic) A private room used for prayer or other devotions.
Crib➦
To plagiarize; cheat.
Closet➦
A place of fanciful contemplation and theorizing.
Crib➦
(US) A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.
Closet➦
(archaic) The private residence or private council chamber of a monarch.
Crib➦
(British) A bed for a child older than a baby.
Closet➦
(obsolete) A pew or side-chapel reserved for a monarch or other feudal lord.
Crib➦
(nautical) A small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel
Closet➦
A private cabinet, particularly:
Crib➦
A wicker basket.
Moses basket
Closet➦
(obsolete) One used to store valuables.
Crib➦
A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.
Closet➦
(archaic) One used to store curiosities.
Crib➦
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.
Closet➦
(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.
Crib➦
A bin for drying or storing grain, as with a corn crib.
Closet➦
(slang, uncommon) closet case.
Crib➦
A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.
Closet➦
Any small room or side-room, particularly:
Crib➦
A confined space, as with a cage or office-cubicle
Closet➦
One intended for storing clothes or bedclothes.
Crib➦
(obsolete) A job, a position; (British) an appointment.
Closet➦
(obsolete) nodot=a, water closet: a room containing a toilet.
Crib➦
A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.
Closet➦
(heraldry) An ordinary similar to a bar but half as broad.
Crib➦
One’s residence, house or dwelling place, or usual place of resort.
Closet➦
A sewer.
Crib➦
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.
Closet➦
A state or condition of secrecy, privacy, or obscurity.
Crib➦
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.
Closet➦
(obsolete) private
Crib➦
(obsolete) A minor theft, extortion or embezzlement, with or without criminal intent.
Closet➦
Closeted, secret (especially with reference to gay people who are in the closet)
He's a closet case.
Crib➦
(cribbage) The card game cribbage.
Closet➦
Denoting anything kept a secret or private.
Crib➦
(cribbage) The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.
Closet➦
(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.
Crib➦
(cryptography) A known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then used to work out the remaining sections.
Closet➦
(transitive) To put into a private place for a secret interview or interrogation.
Crib➦
A small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction.
Closet➦
(transitive) To shut up in, or as in, a closet for concealment or confinement.
Crib➦
A snack or packed lunch, especially as taken to work to eat during a break.
Closet➦
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.
Crib➦
(Canada) A small raft made of timber.
Closet➦
A small apartment, or recess in the side of a room, for household utensils, clothing, etc.
Crib➦
The stomach.
Closet➦
To shut up in, or as in, a closet; to conceal.
Bedlam's closeted and handcuffed charge.
Crib➦
A literal translation, usually of a work originally in Latin or Ancient Greek.
Closet➦
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.
Crib➦
(slang) A cheat sheet or past test used by students; crib sheet.
Closet➦
A small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space
Crib➦
(transitive) To place or confine in a crib.
Closet➦
A toilet in England
Crib➦
To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
Closet➦
A tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes
Crib➦
(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.
Closet➦
A small private room for study or prayer
Crib➦
To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.
Closet➦
Confine to a small space, as for intensive work
Crib➦
(intransitive) To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
Closet➦
(of information) given in confidence or in secret;
Closet information
This arrangement must be kept confidential
Their secret communications
Crib➦
To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of.
Closet➦
Indulging only covertly;
A closet alcoholic
Closet liberals
Crib➦
(Indian English) To complain, to grumble
Crib➦
To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
Crib➦
To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.
Crib➦
A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals.
The steer lion at one crib shall meet.
Crib➦
A stall for oxen or other cattle.
Where no oxen are, the crib is clean.
Crib➦
A small inclosed bedstead or cot for a child.
Crib➦
A box or bin, or similar wooden structure, for storing grain, salt, etc.; as, a crib for corn or oats.
Crib➦
A hovel; a hut; a cottage.
Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, . . . Than in the perfumed chambers of the great?
Crib➦
A structure or frame of timber for a foundation, or for supporting a roof, or for lining a shaft.
Crib➦
A structure of logs to be anchored with stones; - used for docks, pier, dams, etc.
Crib➦
A small raft of timber.
Crib➦
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.
Crib➦
A miner's luncheon.
Crib➦
The discarded cards which the dealer can use in scoring points in cribbage.
Crib➦
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.
Crib➦
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.
Crib➦
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.
Crib➦
To make notes for dishonest use in recitation or examination.
Crib➦
To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind; - said of a horse.
Crib➦
Baby bed with high sides
Crib➦
A literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)
Crib➦
A card game in which each player is dealt 6 cards and discards one or two to make up the crib
Crib➦
Use a crib, as in an exam
Crib➦
Take unauthorized (intellectual material)
Crib➦
Line with beams or planks;
Crib a construction hole