Crib vs. House — What's the Difference?

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

A house is a single-unit residential building, which may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems. Houses use a range of different roofing systems to keep precipitation such as rain from getting into the dwelling space.

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

A building for human habitation, especially one that consists of a ground floor and one or more upper storeys

A rack or trough for fodder; a manger.

A building in which people meet for a particular activity

A stall for cattle.

A religious community that occupies a particular building

A small crude cottage or room.

A legislative or deliberative assembly

(Slang) One's home.

A style of electronic dance music typically having sparse, repetitive vocals and a fast beat

A framework to support or strengthen a mine or shaft.

A twelfth division of the celestial sphere, based on the positions of the ascendant and midheaven at a given time and place, and determined by any of a number of methods.

A wicker basket.

Old-fashioned term for bingo

A petty theft.

(of an animal or plant) kept in, frequenting, or infesting buildings.

Plagiarism.

Relating to a firm, institution, or society

See pony.

Provide with shelter or accommodation

See cheat sheet.

Provide space for; contain or accommodate

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

A structure serving as a dwelling for one or more persons, especially for a family.

To confine or cramp.

A household or family.

To furnish with a crib.

Something, such as a burrow or shell, that serves as a shelter or habitation for a wild animal.

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

A dwelling for a group of people, such as students or members of a religious community, who live together as a unit

To steal.

A building that functions as the primary shelter or location of something

To plagiarize; cheat.

A building devoted to a particular activity

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

A facility, such as a theater or restaurant, that provides entertainment or food for the public

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

The seating area in such an establishment

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

The audience or patrons of such an establishment

A wicker basket.

A commercial firm

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

A publishing company

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.

A gambling casino.

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

(Slang) A house of prostitution.

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

A residential college within a university.

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

Often House A legislative or deliberative assembly.

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

The hall or chamber in which such an assembly meets.

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

A quorum of such an assembly.

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

Often House A family line including ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble family

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.

One of the 12 parts into which the heavens are divided in astrology.

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.

The sign of the zodiac indicating the seat or station of a planet in the heavens. Also called mansion.

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

House music.

(cribbage) The card game cribbage.

To provide living quarters for; lodge

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

To shelter, keep, or store in a house or other structure

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

To fit (something) into a socket or mortise.

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

(Nautical) To secure or stow safely.

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

To reside; dwell.

(Canada) A small raft made of timber.

To take shelter.

The stomach.

A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.

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

An apartment building within a public housing estate.

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

(uncountable) Size and quality of residential accommodations.

(transitive) To place or confine in a crib.

A building intended to contain a single household, as opposed to an apartment or condominium or building containing these.

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

The people who live in a house; a household.

(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 building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).

To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.

A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier.

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

A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre, or a casino; or the management thereof.

To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of.

(historical) A workhouse.

(Indian English) To complain, to grumble

The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.

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

A theatre.

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

(politics) A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature.

A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals.

A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one.

A stall for oxen or other cattle.

(metaphorical) A place of rest or repose.

A small inclosed bedstead or cot for a child.

A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.

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

An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection.

A hovel; a hut; a cottage.

(astrology) One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.

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

(cartomancy) The fourth Lenormand card.

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

A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece.

A small raft of timber.

(curling) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.

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

Lotto; bingo.

A miner's luncheon.

(uncountable) A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.

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

A small stand of trees in a swamp.

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

(sudoku) A set of cells in a Sudoku puzzle which must contain each digit exactly once, such as a row, column, or 3×3 box in classic Sudoku.

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

(music genre) House music.

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

(transitive) To keep within a structure or container.

To make notes for dishonest use in recitation or examination.

(transitive) To admit to residence; to harbor.

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

To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.

Baby bed with high sides

To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.

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

(transitive) To contain or cover mechanical parts.

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

(transitive) To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole.

Use a crib, as in an exam

(obsolete) To drive to a shelter.

Take unauthorized (intellectual material)

(obsolete) To deposit and cover, as in the grave.

Line with beams or planks;

(nautical) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.

To eat.

A structure intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind; but especially, a building or edifice for the habitation of man; a dwelling place, a mansion.

Household affairs; domestic concerns; particularly in the phrase to keep house. See below.

Those who dwell in the same house; a household.

A family of ancestors, descendants, and kindred; a race of persons from the same stock; a tribe; especially, a noble family or an illustrious race; as, the house of Austria; the house of Hanover; the house of Israel.

One of the estates of a kingdom or other government assembled in parliament or legislature; a body of men united in a legislative capacity; as, the House of Lords; the House of Commons; the House of Representatives; also, a quorum of such a body. See Congress, and Parliament.

A firm, or commercial establishment.

A public house; an inn; a hotel.

A twelfth part of the heavens, as divided by six circles intersecting at the north and south points of the horizon, used by astrologers in noting the positions of the heavenly bodies, and casting horoscopes or nativities. The houses were regarded as fixed in respect to the horizon, and numbered from the one at the eastern horizon, called the ascendant, first house, or house of life, downward, or in the direction of the earth's revolution, the stars and planets passing through them in the reverse order every twenty-four hours.

A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece.

An audience; an assembly of hearers, as at a lecture, a theater, etc.; as, a thin or a full house.

The body, as the habitation of the soul.

The grave.

To take or put into a house; to shelter under a roof; to cover from the inclemencies of the weather; to protect by covering; as, to house one's family in a comfortable home; to house farming utensils; to house cattle.

To drive to a shelter.

To admit to residence; to harbor.

To deposit and cover, as in the grave.

To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe; as, to house the upper spars.

To take shelter or lodging; to abide to dwell; to lodge.

A dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families;

An official assembly having legislative powers;

A building in which something is sheltered or located;

A social unit living together;

A building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented;

Members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments;

Aristocratic family line;

The members of a religious community living together

The audience gathered together in a theatre or cinema;

Play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults;

(astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided

The management of a gambling house or casino;

Contain or cover;

Provide housing for;