Difference between Cribbage and Crib

What is the difference between Cribbage and Crib?

Cribbage as a noun is a point-counting card game for two players, with variants for three or four players; the (cribbage board) used for scoring to 61 or 121 points in numerous small increments is characteristic. while Crib as a noun is a baby's bed (british and australasian cot) with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.

Cribbage

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A point-counting card game for two players, with variants for three or four players; the (cribbage board) used for scoring to 61 or 121 points in numerous small increments is characteristic.

Crib

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To place or confine in a crib.To collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet.To engage in academic dishonesty by the illicit use of a pony or cheat sheet; plagiarism.To install timber supports, as with cribbing.To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of: petty thieving.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A baby's bed (British and Australasian cot) with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.A bed for a child older than a baby.A small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vesselA wicker basket; c.f. Moses basket.A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.The baby Jesus and the manger in a creche or Nativity scene, consisting of statues of Mary, Joseph and various other characters such as the magi.A bin for drying or storing grain, as with a corn crib.A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.A covered structure, for confining animals.A stall for large domestic animals.A confined space, as with a cage or office-cubicleA job, a position; (British), an appointment.A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.One's residence, or where one normally hangs out.A boxy structure traditionally built of heavy wooden timbers, to support an existing structure from below, as with a mineshaft or a building being raised off its foundation in preparation for being moved; see cribbing.A collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort; a crib sheet.A minor theft, extortion or embezzlement, with or without criminal intent.Short for the card game cribbage.The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.A known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then used to work out the remaining sections.A small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction.

Example sentence: When my friends were listening to hip-hop or R&B, I was in the crib listening to Billy Joel and Michael Bolton, Luther Vandross, and Oscar Peterson.

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