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Rib vs. Brisket — What's the Difference?

Rib vs. Brisket — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Rib and Brisket

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Rib

In vertebrate anatomy, ribs (Latin: costae) are the long curved bones which form the rib cage, part of the axial skeleton. In most tetrapods, ribs surround the chest, enabling the lungs to expand and thus facilitate breathing by expanding the chest cavity.

Brisket

Brisket is a cut of meat from the breast or lower chest of beef or veal. The beef brisket is one of the nine beef primal cuts, though the definition of the cut differs internationally.

Rib

One of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans and extending from the spine to or toward the sternum.

Brisket

The chest of an animal.

Rib

A similar bone in most vertebrates.
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Brisket

The ribs and meat taken from the chest of an animal.

Rib

A part or piece similar to a rib and serving to shape or support
The rib of an umbrella.

Brisket

The chest of an animal.

Rib

A cut of meat enclosing one or more rib bones.

Brisket

A cut of meat taken from the chest, especially from the section under the first five ribs.

Rib

(Nautical) One of many curved members attached to a boat or ship's keel and extending upward and outward to form the framework of the hull.

Brisket

That part of the breast of an animal which extends from the fore legs back beneath the ribs; also applied to the fore part of a horse, from the shoulders to the bottom of the chest.

Rib

One of many transverse pieces that provide an airplane wing with shape and strength.

Brisket

A cut of meat from the breast or lower chest especially of beef

Rib

(Architecture) A long, narrow, usually arched member projecting from the surface of a structure, especially such a member separating the webs of a vault.

Rib

A raised ridge or wale in knitted material or in cloth.

Rib

(Botany) The main vein or any of the prominent veins of a leaf or other plant organ.

Rib

(Slang) A teasing remark or action; a joke.

Rib

To shape, support, or provide with a rib or ribs.

Rib

To make with ridges or raised markings.

Rib

(Informal) To tease or make fun of
Ribbed my friend about losing the game.

Rib

(anatomy) Any of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans and other animals and extending from the spine to or toward the sternum.

Rib

(by extension) A part or piece, similar to a rib, and serving to shape or support something.
Umbrella ribs

Rib

A cut of meat enclosing one or more rib bones.

Rib

(nautical) Any of several curved members attached to a ship's keel and extending upward and outward to form the framework of the hull.

Rib

(aeronautics) Any of several transverse pieces that provide an aircraft wing with shape and strength.

Rib

(architectural element) A long, narrow, usually arched member projecting from the surface of a structure, especially such a member separating the webs of a vault

Rib

(knitting) A raised ridge in knitted material or in cloth.

Rib

(botany) The main, or any of the prominent veins of a leaf.

Rib

A teasing joke.

Rib

A single strand of hair.

Rib

A stalk of celery.

Rib

A wife or woman.

Rib

(botany) Hound's-tongue (Cynoglossum officinale).

Rib

(botany) Costmary (Tanacetum balsamita).

Rib

(botany) Watercress (Nasturtium officinale).

Rib

To shape, support, or provide something with a rib or ribs.

Rib

To tease or make fun of someone in a good-natured way.
He always gets ribbed for his outrageous shirts.

Rib

To enclose, as if with ribs, and protect; to shut in.

Rib

(transitive) To leave strips of undisturbed ground between the furrows in ploughing (land).

Rib

One of the curved bones attached to the vertebral column and supporting the lateral walls of the thorax.

Rib

That which resembles a rib in form or use.

Rib

The chief nerve, or one of the chief nerves, of a leaf.

Rib

In Gothic vaulting, one of the primary members of the vault. These are strong arches, meeting and crossing one another, dividing the whole space into triangles, which are then filled by vaulted construction of lighter material. Hence, an imitation of one of these in wood, plaster, or the like.

Rib

Solid coal on the side of a gallery; solid ore in a vein.

Rib

A wife; - in allusion to Eve, as made out of Adam's rib.
How many have we known whose heads have been broken with their own rib.

Rib

To furnish with ribs; to form with rising lines and channels; as, to rib cloth.

Rib

To inclose, as with ribs, and protect; to shut in.
It [lead] were too grossTo rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave.

Rib

Support resembling the rib of an animal

Rib

Any of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum in humans (and similar bones in most vertebrates)

Rib

Cut of meat including one or more ribs

Rib

A teasing remark

Rib

A riblike supporting or strengthening part of an animal or plant

Rib

A projecting molding on the underside of a vault or ceiling; may be ornamental or structural

Rib

Form vertical ribs by knitting;
A ribbed sweater

Rib

Subject to laughter or ridicule;
The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house
The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher
His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday

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