rib

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 rĭb

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
    — On an early winter afternoon, clear but not cold, when the vegetable world was a weird multitude of skeletons through whose ribs the sun shone freely, a gleaming landau came to a pause on the crest of a hill in Wessex.
  2. Hound's-tongue (Cynoglossum officinale).
  3. A part or piece, similar to a rib, and serving to shape or support something. broadly
    — a broken rib on the umbrella
  4. Costmary (Tanacetum balsamita).
  5. Watercress (Nasturtium officinale).
  6. A cut of meat enclosing one or more rib bones.
  7. Any of several curved members attached to a ship's keel and extending upward and outward to form the framework of the hull.
  8. Any of several transverse pieces that provide an aircraft wing with shape and strength.
  9. A long, narrow, usually arched member projecting from the surface of a structure, especially such a member separating the webs of a vault
  10. A strip of metal running along the top of the barrel that serves as a sighting plane.
  11. A raised ridge in knitted material or in cloth.
  12. The main, or any of the prominent veins of a leaf.
  13. A teasing joke.
  14. A single strand of hair. Ireland,colloquial
  15. A stalk of celery.
  16. A wife or woman. archaic,humorous,literary
    — 'Near to it was the portrait of his rib, Dame Middleton.'
动词 v.
  1. To shape, support, or provide something with a rib or ribs.
  2. To tease or make fun of someone in a good-natured way.
    — He always gets ribbed for his outrageous shirts.
  3. To enclose, as if with ribs, and protect; to shut in.
    — It [lead] were too gross To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave.
  4. To leave strips of undisturbed ground between the furrows in ploughing (land). transitive

词形变化

ribs plural ribs present,singular,third-person ribbing participle,present ribbed participle,past ribbed past ribs plural

词汇关系

衍生词
abdominal rib baby back rib baldrib beef rib chuck rib Dogrib false rib floating rib flying rib forerib lierne rib middle rib midrib prime rib ribband ribbed vault ribber ribbie ribby rib-cage ribcage ribectomy rib eye rib-eye ribeye ribeye steak rib eye steak rib-eye steak rib-faced deer ribgrass ribless riblet riblike rib-rack ribroast ribspare ribsteak rib steak ribstone rib-tickler rib-tickling rib vault ribwich ribwork ribwort short rib sparerib spare rib spare-rib spear-rib standing rib stick to one's ribs toby rib transverse rib true rib

词源

词源 1
From Middle English rib, ribbe, from Old English ribb (“rib”), from Proto-West Germanic *ribi, from Proto-Germanic *ribją (“rib, reef”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rebʰ- (“arch, ceiling, cover”).
Cognate with Dutch rib (“rib”), Norwegian ribbe (“sparerib”), Norwegian ribben (“rib”), Low German ribbe (“rib”), German Rippe (“rib”), Old Norse rif (“rib, reef”), Serbo-Croatian rèbro (“rib”).
(wife or woman): In reference to the creation of Eve from Adam's rib in the Bible.
词源 2
From Middle English ribbe, from Old English ribbe (“hound's-tongue”).
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