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verb
- (cryptography) To encode.
- To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
- (transitive) To add codes to (a data set).
- (informal, healthcare) To call a hospital emergency code.
- (genetics, intransitive) To encode a protein.
- (informal, healthcare) Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency (a code blue) such as cardiac arrest.
- (computing) To write software programs.
- attach a code to
- convert ordinary language into code
noun
- By synecdoche: a codeword, code point, an encoded representation of a character, symbol, or other entity.
- A short textual designation, often with little relation to the item it represents.
- Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.
- Alternative form of cod.
- (cryptography) A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
- A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
- (scientific programming) A program.
- (linguistics) A particular lect or language variety.
- A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest.
- (programming, uncountable) Instructions for a computer, written in a programming language; the input of a translator, an interpreter or a browser, namely: source code, machine code, bytecode.
- A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
- (medicine) An emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff.
- (informal) A set of unwritten rules that bind a social group.
- (computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions
- a set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones)
- a coding system used for transmitting messages requiring brevity or secrecy
- a series of letters, numbers or symbols assigned to something for the purpose of classification or identification
noun
name
noun
- (medicine) Initialism of Drug-Eluting Stent.
- (pathology) Initialism of Diffuse Esophageal Spasm.
- (astronomy) Initialism of Deep Ecliptic Survey, (an astronomy project).
- Abbreviation of diethylstilbestrol.
- (pathology) Initialism of Dry Eye Syndrome.
- (astronomy) Initialism of Dark Energy Survey, (an astronomy project).
- a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry
- synthetic nonsteroid with the properties of estrogen; formerly used to treat menstrual problems but was found to be associated with vaginal cancers in the daughters of women so treated during pregnancy
phrase
noun
- (cryptography) With regards to data encryption, ensuring that information is not altered by unauthorized persons in a way that is not detectable by authorized users.
- (aviation) The ability of systems to provide timely warnings to users when they should not be used for navigation.
- Trustworthiness; keeping one's word.
- The quality or condition of being complete; pure
- The state of being wholesome; unimpaired
- Steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code.
- moral soundness
- an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting
noun
- (cryptography) Text or any data that is to be encrypted (as opposed to ciphertext).
- (computing) Data which consists only of human-readable unformatted text, as opposed to machine-readable binary data or formatted/structured text. In this sense, the character data in between XML tags may be called "plain text".
- (file format) Human readable text which consists only of a string of characters, represented using a character encoding such as ASCII or Unicode. In the file format sense, plain text may represent structured data in a human readable format such as XML.
adj
noun
- (cryptography) The process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge, key files, or passwords.
- (cryptography) A ciphertext, a cryptogram, an encrypted value. Usually used with the preposition "of" followed by the value that is hidden in it.
- the activity of converting data or information into code
noun
- (cryptography) Initialism of forward secrecy.
- (US) Initialism of forest service.
- Initialism of fingerspelling.
- Initialism of full service (“full sexual activity in prostitution”).
- Initialism of Felty's syndrome
- (military, nautical, exonym) Initialism of French ship (a ship of the military of the Fifth Republic of France (used as a ship prefix)).
- (probability theory) Initialism of first success distribution.
verb
suffix
verb
noun
name
noun
- (computing) An encrypted digital archive.
- The secure room or rooms in or below a bank used to store currency and other valuables; similar rooms in other settings.
- (gymnastics) A piece of apparatus used for performing jumps.
- The space covered by an arched roof, particularly underground rooms and (Christianity, obsolete) church crypts.
- (equestrianism) Synonym of volte: a circular movement by the horse.
- Any arched ceiling or roof.
- Any cellar or underground storeroom.
- An act of vaulting, formerly (chiefly) by deer; a leap or jump.
- Any burial chamber, particularly those underground.
- (figuratively) Anything resembling such a downward-facing concave structure, particularly the sky and caves.
- (gymnastics) An event or performance involving a vaulting horse.
- (gymnastics) A gymnastic movement performed on this apparatus.
- An arched masonry structure supporting and forming a ceiling, whether freestanding or forming part of a larger building.
- (often figurative) Any archive of past content.
- an arched brick or stone ceiling or roof
- the act of jumping over an obstacle
- a burial chamber (usually underground)
- a strongroom or compartment (often made of steel) for safekeeping of valuables
verb
- (ambitransitive) To jump or leap over with a hand and/or foot on the item for support.
- (transitive) To store in a vault.
- (transitive) To build as, or cover with a vault.
- (video games) To remove (an item, character, etc.) from a video game in an update.
- bound vigorously
- jump across or leap over (an obstacle)
verb
- (cryptography) To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.
- (wiki jargon) To lock a page title so it cannot be created.
- (archaeology) To add bogus evidence to an archaeological site.
- (transitive) To sprinkle throughout.
- (military, transitive) To sow with salt (of land), symbolizing a curse on its re-inhabitation.
- (intransitive) To deposit salt as a saline solution.
- (transitive) To add certain chemical elements to (a nuclear or conventional weapon) so that it generates more radiation.
- (nautical, of a ship) To fill with salt between the timbers and planks for the preservation of the timber.
- (mining) To blast metal into (as a portion of a mine) in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.
- (transitive) To add salt to.
- add zest or liveliness to
- add salt to
- preserve with salt
- sprinkle as if with salt
adj
noun
- (chemistry) One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.
- (Internet slang, uncountable) Tears; indignation; outrage; arguing.
- (cryptography) A sequence of random data added to plain text data (such as passwords or messages) prior to encryption or hashing, in order to make brute force decryption more difficult.
- (figurative, uncountable) Skepticism and common sense.
- (slang, countable) A sailor (also old salt).
- (UK, historical, uncountable) The money demanded by Eton schoolboys during the montem.
- (historical, in the plural) Epsom salts or other salt used as a medicine.
- A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a food ingredient, seasoning, condiment, and preservative.
- A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it.
- (uncommon, countable) A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.
- a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
- the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth
- white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food
noun
- the science of analyzing and deciphering codes and ciphers and cryptograms
- act of writing in code or cipher
- The discipline that embodies the principles, means, and methods for transforming data to hide its semantic content, prevent unauthorized use, or detect modifications, while also ensuring information security through confidentiality, integrity, authentication, and nonrepudiation.
noun
- act of writing in code or cipher
- The process of encoding or decoding.
- (emergency medicine) A method of communicating important medical information discreetly and quickly between medical professionals and responders.
- (Philippines) Ellipsis of number coding.
- An encoding.
- An alternative therapy used to treat addictions by convincing the patient (through hypnosis, placebos, etc.) that the substance will harm or kill them if they use it again.
- (mathematics) A 1-uniform morphism; an injective morphism; a morphism that maps letter to letter
- The process of writing computer software code.
adj
verb
noun
- act of writing in code or cipher
- The art and science of concealing a secret message, data, or file within another innocuous message, image, audio file, or physical object in a way that hides the very existence of the hidden information from casual observation.
- (computing, cryptography) The use of small computer files to communicate secret information.
adj
verb
name
noun
noun
noun
- (cryptography) A set of more than one ciphertext enciphered with the same key.
- (algebra, ring theory) An invariant of rings and modules, encoding information about dimensionality; see Depth (ring theory).
- the most severe part
- the vertical distance below a surface; the degree to which something is deep
- (statistics) the lower of the two ranks of a value in an ordered set of values
- lowness
- (literary, usually in the plural) the deepest part (usually of a body of water)
- (logic) the number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content
- the distance between the front and the back, as the depth of a drawer or closet
- (horology) a pair of toothed wheels which work together
- (art, photography) the property of appearing three-dimensional
- (computing, colors) the total palette of available colors
- (aeronautics) the perpendicular distance from the chord to the farthest point of an arched surface
- (figuratively) the intensity, complexity, strength, seriousness or importance of an emotion, situation, etc.
- (literary, usually in the plural) a very remote part.
- (usually plural) a low moral state
- the attribute or quality of being deep, strong, or intense
- degree of psychological or intellectual profundity
- the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
- the extent downward or backward or inward
verb
- (cryptography) To use a known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, to work out the remaining sections.
- (intransitive, of a horse) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.
- To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
- To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
- (intransitive) To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
- (transitive) 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.
- (India) To complain, to grumble
- (transitive, informal) To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.
- (transitive) To place or confine in a crib.
- use a crib, as in an exam
- take unauthorized (intellectual material)
- line with beams or planks
noun
- 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.
- (cribbage) The card game cribbage.
- A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.
- (slang, sometimes African-American Vernacular) One’s residence, house or dwelling place, or usual place of resort.
- A confined space, such as a cage or office cubicle.
- (British) A bed for a child older than a baby.
- (cribbage) The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.
- A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.
- A bin for drying or storing grain, such as a corn crib.
- (US) A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.
- 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.
- (nautical) A small sleeping berth in a packet or other small vessel.
- (slang) A cheat sheet or past test used by students; crib sheet.
- A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.
- A wicker basket.
- (southern New Zealand) A small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction.
- (now chiefly Australia, New Zealand) A snack or packed lunch, especially as taken to work to eat during a break.
- A literal translation, usually of a work originally in Latin or Ancient Greek.
- (Canada) A small raft made of timber.
- (cryptography) A known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then used to work out the remaining sections.
- (usually in the plural) A collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort; a crib sheet.
- baby bed with high sides made of slats
- a bin or granary for storing grains
- a card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two
- the cards discarded by players at cribbage
- a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)
adj
noun
- (uncountable) Alternative form of four square.
- (countable, cryptography) A four-square cipher.
- (countable, architecture, US) A boxy style of domestic architecture with four rooms to a floor, one of which is usually a stair hall.
- (geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon
adv
noun
name
noun
- (cryptography) A cryptographic system using an algorithm that converts letters or sequences of bits into ciphertext.
- (music, slang) A hip-hop jam session.
- (slang) The path (usually circular) shared cannabis takes through a group, an occasion of cannabis smoking.
- Someone or something of no importance.
- A method of transforming a text in order to conceal its meaning.
- (music) A fault in an organ valve which causes a pipe to sound continuously without the key having been pressed.
- Ciphertext; a message concealed via a cipher.
- A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name.
- A grouping of three digits in a number, especially when delimited by commas or periods:
- Any text character.
- A numeric character.
- a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential
- a secret method of writing
- a message written in a secret code
- a person of no influence
- a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number
verb
noun
name
noun
- (cryptography) Initialism of message authentication code.
- (computer security) Initialism of mandatory access control.
- (computing) Initialism of multiply and accumulate, a hardware module found in digital signal processors which performs a multiplication and adds the result of that operation to an accumulator in the same cycle, used extensively in implementations of digital filters, transforms, and codecs.
- (anesthesiology) Initialism of monitored anesthesia care.
- (military, nautical, aviation, historical) Initialism of merchant aircraft carrier.
- (aviation) Initialism of mean aerodynamic chord.
- (aviation) Initialism of mid-air collision.
- (science fiction) Initialism of magnetic accelerator cannon.
- (networking) Initialism of media access control: the portion of Ethernet, Wi-Fi 802.11 wireless, Bluetooth, FDDI, ATM, and Fibre Channel networks that controls which hardware devices have access to the media over which signals are sent.
- (microbiology) Initialism of Mycobacterium avium complex.
- (chemistry) Initialism of maximum allowable concentration, the maximum concentration of a pollutant which is considered harmless to healthy adults during their working hours, assuming they breathe uncontaminated air at all other times.
- (UK, telecommunications) Initialism of Migration Authorisation Code.
- (immunology) Initialism of membrane attack complex, a part of the complement system of the innate immune system.
- (anesthesiology) Initialism of minimum alveolar concentration.
name
noun
noun
- (cryptography) With regards to data encryption, ensuring that information is not altered by unauthorized persons in a way that is not detectable by authorized users.
- (aviation) The ability of systems to provide timely warnings to users when they should not be used for navigation.
- Trustworthiness; keeping one's word.
- The quality or condition of being complete; pure
- The state of being wholesome; unimpaired
- Steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code.
- moral soundness
- an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting
noun
- (cryptography) Text or any data that is to be encrypted (as opposed to ciphertext).
- (computing) Data which consists only of human-readable unformatted text, as opposed to machine-readable binary data or formatted/structured text. In this sense, the character data in between XML tags may be called "plain text".
- (file format) Human readable text which consists only of a string of characters, represented using a character encoding such as ASCII or Unicode. In the file format sense, plain text may represent structured data in a human readable format such as XML.
adj
noun
- (cryptography) The process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge, key files, or passwords.
- (cryptography) A ciphertext, a cryptogram, an encrypted value. Usually used with the preposition "of" followed by the value that is hidden in it.
- the activity of converting data or information into code
noun
- (cryptography) Initialism of forward secrecy.
- (US) Initialism of forest service.
- Initialism of fingerspelling.
- Initialism of full service (“full sexual activity in prostitution”).
- Initialism of Felty's syndrome
- (military, nautical, exonym) Initialism of French ship (a ship of the military of the Fifth Republic of France (used as a ship prefix)).
- (probability theory) Initialism of first success distribution.
verb
noun
name
noun
- (computing) An encrypted digital archive.
- The secure room or rooms in or below a bank used to store currency and other valuables; similar rooms in other settings.
- (gymnastics) A piece of apparatus used for performing jumps.
- The space covered by an arched roof, particularly underground rooms and (Christianity, obsolete) church crypts.
- (equestrianism) Synonym of volte: a circular movement by the horse.
- Any arched ceiling or roof.
- Any cellar or underground storeroom.
- An act of vaulting, formerly (chiefly) by deer; a leap or jump.
- Any burial chamber, particularly those underground.
- (figuratively) Anything resembling such a downward-facing concave structure, particularly the sky and caves.
- (gymnastics) An event or performance involving a vaulting horse.
- (gymnastics) A gymnastic movement performed on this apparatus.
- An arched masonry structure supporting and forming a ceiling, whether freestanding or forming part of a larger building.
- (often figurative) Any archive of past content.
- an arched brick or stone ceiling or roof
- the act of jumping over an obstacle
- a burial chamber (usually underground)
- a strongroom or compartment (often made of steel) for safekeeping of valuables
verb
- (ambitransitive) To jump or leap over with a hand and/or foot on the item for support.
- (transitive) To store in a vault.
- (transitive) To build as, or cover with a vault.
- (video games) To remove (an item, character, etc.) from a video game in an update.
- bound vigorously
- jump across or leap over (an obstacle)
noun
- the science of analyzing and deciphering codes and ciphers and cryptograms
- act of writing in code or cipher
- The discipline that embodies the principles, means, and methods for transforming data to hide its semantic content, prevent unauthorized use, or detect modifications, while also ensuring information security through confidentiality, integrity, authentication, and nonrepudiation.
noun
- act of writing in code or cipher
- The process of encoding or decoding.
- (emergency medicine) A method of communicating important medical information discreetly and quickly between medical professionals and responders.
- (Philippines) Ellipsis of number coding.
- An encoding.
- An alternative therapy used to treat addictions by convincing the patient (through hypnosis, placebos, etc.) that the substance will harm or kill them if they use it again.
- (mathematics) A 1-uniform morphism; an injective morphism; a morphism that maps letter to letter
- The process of writing computer software code.
adj
verb
noun
- act of writing in code or cipher
- The art and science of concealing a secret message, data, or file within another innocuous message, image, audio file, or physical object in a way that hides the very existence of the hidden information from casual observation.
- (computing, cryptography) The use of small computer files to communicate secret information.
noun
noun
- (cryptography) A set of more than one ciphertext enciphered with the same key.
- (algebra, ring theory) An invariant of rings and modules, encoding information about dimensionality; see Depth (ring theory).
- the most severe part
- the vertical distance below a surface; the degree to which something is deep
- (statistics) the lower of the two ranks of a value in an ordered set of values
- lowness
- (literary, usually in the plural) the deepest part (usually of a body of water)
- (logic) the number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content
- the distance between the front and the back, as the depth of a drawer or closet
- (horology) a pair of toothed wheels which work together
- (art, photography) the property of appearing three-dimensional
- (computing, colors) the total palette of available colors
- (aeronautics) the perpendicular distance from the chord to the farthest point of an arched surface
- (figuratively) the intensity, complexity, strength, seriousness or importance of an emotion, situation, etc.
- (literary, usually in the plural) a very remote part.
- (usually plural) a low moral state
- the attribute or quality of being deep, strong, or intense
- degree of psychological or intellectual profundity
- the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
- the extent downward or backward or inward
noun
name
noun
- (cryptography) A cryptographic system using an algorithm that converts letters or sequences of bits into ciphertext.
- (music, slang) A hip-hop jam session.
- (slang) The path (usually circular) shared cannabis takes through a group, an occasion of cannabis smoking.
- Someone or something of no importance.
- A method of transforming a text in order to conceal its meaning.
- (music) A fault in an organ valve which causes a pipe to sound continuously without the key having been pressed.
- Ciphertext; a message concealed via a cipher.
- A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name.
- A grouping of three digits in a number, especially when delimited by commas or periods:
- Any text character.
- A numeric character.
- a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential
- a secret method of writing
- a message written in a secret code
- a person of no influence
- a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number
verb
noun
name
noun
- (cryptography) Initialism of message authentication code.
- (computer security) Initialism of mandatory access control.
- (computing) Initialism of multiply and accumulate, a hardware module found in digital signal processors which performs a multiplication and adds the result of that operation to an accumulator in the same cycle, used extensively in implementations of digital filters, transforms, and codecs.
- (anesthesiology) Initialism of monitored anesthesia care.
- (military, nautical, aviation, historical) Initialism of merchant aircraft carrier.
- (aviation) Initialism of mean aerodynamic chord.
- (aviation) Initialism of mid-air collision.
- (science fiction) Initialism of magnetic accelerator cannon.
- (networking) Initialism of media access control: the portion of Ethernet, Wi-Fi 802.11 wireless, Bluetooth, FDDI, ATM, and Fibre Channel networks that controls which hardware devices have access to the media over which signals are sent.
- (microbiology) Initialism of Mycobacterium avium complex.
- (chemistry) Initialism of maximum allowable concentration, the maximum concentration of a pollutant which is considered harmless to healthy adults during their working hours, assuming they breathe uncontaminated air at all other times.
- (UK, telecommunications) Initialism of Migration Authorisation Code.
- (immunology) Initialism of membrane attack complex, a part of the complement system of the innate immune system.
- (anesthesiology) Initialism of minimum alveolar concentration.
name
verb
- (cryptography) To encode.
- To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
- (transitive) To add codes to (a data set).
- (informal, healthcare) To call a hospital emergency code.
- (genetics, intransitive) To encode a protein.
- (informal, healthcare) Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency (a code blue) such as cardiac arrest.
- (computing) To write software programs.
- attach a code to
- convert ordinary language into code
noun
- By synecdoche: a codeword, code point, an encoded representation of a character, symbol, or other entity.
- A short textual designation, often with little relation to the item it represents.
- Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.
- Alternative form of cod.
- (cryptography) A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
- A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
- (scientific programming) A program.
- (linguistics) A particular lect or language variety.
- A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest.
- (programming, uncountable) Instructions for a computer, written in a programming language; the input of a translator, an interpreter or a browser, namely: source code, machine code, bytecode.
- A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
- (medicine) An emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff.
- (informal) A set of unwritten rules that bind a social group.
- (computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions
- a set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones)
- a coding system used for transmitting messages requiring brevity or secrecy
- a series of letters, numbers or symbols assigned to something for the purpose of classification or identification
verb
verb
- (cryptography) To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.
- (wiki jargon) To lock a page title so it cannot be created.
- (archaeology) To add bogus evidence to an archaeological site.
- (transitive) To sprinkle throughout.
- (military, transitive) To sow with salt (of land), symbolizing a curse on its re-inhabitation.
- (intransitive) To deposit salt as a saline solution.
- (transitive) To add certain chemical elements to (a nuclear or conventional weapon) so that it generates more radiation.
- (nautical, of a ship) To fill with salt between the timbers and planks for the preservation of the timber.
- (mining) To blast metal into (as a portion of a mine) in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.
- (transitive) To add salt to.
- add zest or liveliness to
- add salt to
- preserve with salt
- sprinkle as if with salt
adj
noun
- (chemistry) One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.
- (Internet slang, uncountable) Tears; indignation; outrage; arguing.
- (cryptography) A sequence of random data added to plain text data (such as passwords or messages) prior to encryption or hashing, in order to make brute force decryption more difficult.
- (figurative, uncountable) Skepticism and common sense.
- (slang, countable) A sailor (also old salt).
- (UK, historical, uncountable) The money demanded by Eton schoolboys during the montem.
- (historical, in the plural) Epsom salts or other salt used as a medicine.
- A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a food ingredient, seasoning, condiment, and preservative.
- A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it.
- (uncommon, countable) A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.
- a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
- the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth
- white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food
verb
- (cryptography) To use a known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, to work out the remaining sections.
- (intransitive, of a horse) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.
- To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
- To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
- (intransitive) To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
- (transitive) 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.
- (India) To complain, to grumble
- (transitive, informal) To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.
- (transitive) To place or confine in a crib.
- use a crib, as in an exam
- take unauthorized (intellectual material)
- line with beams or planks
noun
- 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.
- (cribbage) The card game cribbage.
- A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.
- (slang, sometimes African-American Vernacular) One’s residence, house or dwelling place, or usual place of resort.
- A confined space, such as a cage or office cubicle.
- (British) A bed for a child older than a baby.
- (cribbage) The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.
- A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.
- A bin for drying or storing grain, such as a corn crib.
- (US) A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.
- 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.
- (nautical) A small sleeping berth in a packet or other small vessel.
- (slang) A cheat sheet or past test used by students; crib sheet.
- A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.
- A wicker basket.
- (southern New Zealand) A small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction.
- (now chiefly Australia, New Zealand) A snack or packed lunch, especially as taken to work to eat during a break.
- A literal translation, usually of a work originally in Latin or Ancient Greek.
- (Canada) A small raft made of timber.
- (cryptography) A known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then used to work out the remaining sections.
- (usually in the plural) A collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort; a crib sheet.
- baby bed with high sides made of slats
- a bin or granary for storing grains
- a card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two
- the cards discarded by players at cribbage
- a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)
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- (uncountable) Alternative form of four square.
- (countable, cryptography) A four-square cipher.
- (countable, architecture, US) A boxy style of domestic architecture with four rooms to a floor, one of which is usually a stair hall.
- (geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon