rib¹ /rib/

1. Any of the bones that curve round and forward from the backbone
2. A piece of meat containing one or more ribs
3. A curved member of the side of a ship running from keel to deck
4. A strengthening bar
5. A rodlike structure supporting or strengthening a membrane, such as one of the greater veins of a leaf, a nervure in an insect's wing, a member supporting the fabric of an aeroplane wing or of an umbrella
6. A bar of a grate (Scot)
7. The shaft of a feather
8. Any of the parallel supports of a bridge
9. The side of a guitar, violin, etc
10. A framing timber
11. A purlin
12. A vein of ore in a rock
13. A raised band
14. A prominence running in a line
15. A ridge
16. One of the raised lines on the spine of a book where the stitching runs across (bookbinding)
17. A ridge raised in knitting, by alternating plain and purl stitches, or a similar ridge raised in weaving
18. The pattern of ribs so formed (also called ribbing)
19. A moulding or projecting band on a ceiling
20. A wife (from Bible, Genesis 2.21–23; facetious)

1. To provide, form, cover or enclose with ribs
2. To plough with spaces between the furrows (ribˈ-plough)

ribbed adjective

1. Having ribs
2. Ridged

ribbˈing noun

An arrangement of ribs

ribbˈy adjective

1. Having many or prominent ribs
2. Nasty, seedy, squalid (slang)

ribˈless adjective

ribˈlet noun

A small, narrow or shallow rib

ribˈlike adjective

rib bone noun

A rib

ribˈcage noun

The enclosing wall of the chest formed by the ribs, etc

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