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单词 true rib
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rib1 /rib/

noun
  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)
transitive verb (ribbˈing; ribbed)
  1. To provide, form, cover or enclose with ribs
  2. To plough with spaces between the furrows (ribˈ-plough)
ORIGIN: OE ribb rib, ribbe ribwort; Ger Rippe rib

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

rib eye or ribˈeye noun

A choice cut of beefsteak, cut from the rib

ribˈ-grass noun

The ribwort plantain

ribˈ-roast transitive verb (obsolete)

To beat soundly

ribˈ-roaster noun (archaic)

A severe blow on the ribs

rib-roastˈing noun (archaic).

ribˈ-tickler noun

A very funny joke or story

ribˈ-tickling adjective

Very funny, inclining one to laugh uproariously

ribˈ-vaulting noun

ribˈwork noun

ribˈwort (or ribwort plantain) noun

A common weed (Plantago lanceolata) with narrow, strongly ribbed leaves and short brown heads

false rib

One joined indirectly to the breastbone or (floating rib) not at all

true rib

One joined directly by its cartilage

true /troo/

adjective
  1. Genuine
  2. Properly so called
  3. Typical
  4. Conformable
  5. Accurately adjusted or in tune
  6. Straight or flat
  7. Agreeing with fact
  8. Actual
  9. Absolute
  10. Corrected
  11. Accurate
  12. Exact
  13. Right
  14. Rightful
  15. Honest
  16. Sincere
  17. Truthful
  18. Faithful
  19. Constant
  20. Trusty
adverb
  1. Truly
  2. Faithfully
  3. Honestly
  4. In accurate adjustment
  5. Dead in tune
  6. After the ancestral type
transitive verb

To adjust accurately

noun
  1. That which is true, truth
  2. Accurate adjustment
ORIGIN: OE trēowe; ON tryggr, Ger treu

trueˈness noun

truˈly adverb

true bill noun (law; N American or historical)

A bill of indictment endorsed, after investigation, by a grand jury, as containing a case for the court

true blue see under blue1

trueˈ-born adjective

  1. Of genuine birth
  2. Pure-bred
  3. True to the qualities of the breed
  4. Legitimate

trueˈ-bred adjective

  1. Pure-bred
  2. Typical
  3. Of good breeding

trueˈ-devotˈed adjective (Shakespeare)

Full of honest zeal

trueˈ-disposˈing adjective (Shakespeare)

Just

true-heartˈed adjective

  1. Sincere
  2. Faithful

true-heartˈedness noun

trueˈ-life adjective

Taken from or comparable to real life

trueˈlove noun

  1. Someone truly or really beloved
  2. A sweetheart
  3. A faithful lover
  4. A true-love knot
  5. A quatrefoil
  6. A four-leaved clover (also trueˈ-love grass; obsolete)
  7. Herb Paris

true-love knot or trueˈ-lovˈer's knot noun

An ornamental or symbolic knot or interlaced design, as a two-looped bow or a knot with two interlaced loops

trueˈman noun (archaic)

An honest man

true north noun

The direction of the north pole, opp to magnetic north

trueˈpenny noun (Shakespeare)

An honest fellow

true rib see under rib1

true-seemˈing adjective (Spenser)

Seeming (falsely or truly) to be true

true time noun

The time according to the position of the sun, opp to mean time

true-type font noun (computing)

A standard for scalable typefaces and fonts

out of true

Not straight, not properly balanced, adjusted or calibrated
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