Rib



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解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. 肋骨, 伞骨
• ［英］ n. 肋骨; 伞骨 ( one of the stiff strips supporting an umbrella's fabric)
• ［类］ organ : kidney / bone : rib ( 肾是一种器官 / 肋骨是一种骨骼)
• ［例］ the ribs of an umbrella ( 雨伞的伞骨)

Webster Collegiate

I. noun

• Etymology: Middle English, from Old English ribb; akin to Old High German rippi rib, Old Church Slavic rebro, and probably to Greek erephein to roof over
• Date: before 12th century
• 1.
  • a. any of the paired curved bony or partly cartilaginous rods that stiffen the walls of the body of most vertebrates and protect the viscera
  • b.
    • (1) a cut of meat including a rib — see beef illustration
    • (2) a boneless cut of meat (as beef or pork) from a rib section
  • c. \［from the account of Eve's creation from Adam's rib in Genesis 2:21-22\］ wife
• 2. something resembling a rib in shape or function: as
  • a.
    • (1) a traverse member of the frame of a ship that runs from keel to deck
    • (2) a light fore-and-aft member in an airplane's wing
  • b. one of the stiff strips supporting an umbrella's fabric
  • c. one of the arches in Romanesque and Gothic vaulting meeting and crossing one another and dividing the whole vaulted space into triangles
• 3. an elongated ridge: as
  • a.
    • (1) a vein of an insect's wing
    • (2) one of the primary veins of a leaf
  • b. one of the ridges in a knitted or woven fabric

II. transitive verb (ribbed; ribbing)

• Date: circa 1547
• 1. to furnish or enclose with ribs
• 2. to knit so as to form vertical ridges in
• ? ribber noun

III. noun

• Etymology: ［sup］4［/sup］rib
• Date: 1929
• 1. joke
• 2. parody

IV. transitive verb (ribbed; ribbing)

• Etymology: probably from ［sup］1［/sup］rib; from the tickling of the ribs to cause laughter
• Date: 1930
• to poke fun at ; kid
• ? ribber noun

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