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Closet vs. Crib — What's the Difference?

Closet vs. Crib — What's the Difference?

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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
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Crib

A rack or trough for fodder; a manger.

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.

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

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