Definitions for rib

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IPA: /rɪb/

Rib is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 11 anagrams from letters in rib (bir).

Definitions for rib

noun

1. one of a series of curved bones that are articulated with the vertebrae and occur in pairs, 12 in humans, on each side of the vertebrate body, certain pairs being connected with the sternum and forming the thoracic wall.
2. a cut of meat, as beef, containing a rib.
3. ribs, spareribs (def 2).
4. Architecture. any of several archlike members of a vault supporting it at the groins, defining its distinct surfaces, or dividing these surfaces into panels: including ogives and tiercerons. any of several molded members or moldings, including ridge ribs and liernes, and on the surface of a vault accenting the ridges or dividing the surface into panels.
5. something resembling a rib in form, position, or use, as a supporting or strengthening part.
6. a structural member that supports the shape of something:
7. Nautical. any of the curved framing members in a ship's hull that rise upward and outward from the keel; frame.
8. a stiffening beam cast as part of a concrete slab.
9. a primary vein of a leaf.
10. a vertical ridge in cloth, especially in knitted fabrics.
11. a ridge, as in poplin or rep, caused by heavy yarn.
12. a wife (in humorous allusion to the creation of Eve. Gen. 2:21–22).
13. Ceramics. a scraper for smoothing clay being thrown on a potter's wheel.
14. a metal ridge running along the top of the barrel of a firearm to simplify aligning the sights.
15. a longitudinal strip of metal joining the barrels of a double-barreled gun.

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish or strengthen with ribs.
2. to enclose as with ribs.
3. to mark with riblike ridges or markings.
4. to tease; make fun of.

Origin of rib

before 900; Middle English, Old English rib(b); cognate with German Rippe

Examples for rib

"Which is a rib, I believe," observed Sir Norman, thoughtfully.

rib roasts should be bought by designating the number of ribs.

Goalkeeper Tim Howard has officially been passed fit to face Slovenia after sustaining a rib injury in the England game.

Would he wound a Sydneyite in the fifth rib, let him laud Melbourne.

Depth of rib is more important in the male than in the female.

“I got a scratch on my rib cage and on a breast” she said, matter-of-factly.

This must be from the early ‘40s, the Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn, Adam’s rib.

French and Crown one rib rack and season with salt and pepper, cover exposed bones with foil, cook in oven at 350 for 2.5 hours.

All sorts of mistakes occur because Eve was made out of a rib from Adam's side.

Or that food thermometers can end up contaminating your rib roast?