crib vs pad

crib

noun
  • A bed for a child older than a baby. 

  • A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals. 

  • 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. 

  • A literal translation, usually of a work originally in Latin or Ancient Greek. 

  • One’s residence, house or dwelling place, or usual place of resort. 

  • A bin for drying or storing grain, as with a corn crib. 

  • A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay. 

  • A wicker basket. 

  • A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation. 

  • The card game cribbage. 

  • A small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction. 

  • A small raft made of timber. 

  • A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet. 

  • A snack or packed lunch, especially as taken to work to eat during a break. 

  • A confined space, as with a cage or office-cubicle 

  • A small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel 

  • The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer. 

  • 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. 

  • 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 known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then used to work out the remaining sections. 

  • A cheat sheet or past test used by students; crib sheet. 

verb
  • To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations. 

  • To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind. 

  • To place or confine in a crib. 

  • To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp. 

  • To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat. 

  • 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 complain, to grumble 

  • To install timber supports, as with cribbing. 

pad

noun
  • A bed. 

  • An electrical extension cord with a multi-port socket on one end: "trip cord" 

  • The mostly hairless flesh located on the bottom of an animal's foot or paw. 

  • A small house, apartment, or mobile home occupied by a single person; such as a bachelor, playboy, etc. 

  • Any cushion-like part of the human body, especially the ends of the fingers. 

  • A panel or strip of material designed to be sensitive to pressure or touch. 

  • A random key (originally written on a disposable pad) of the same length as the plaintext. 

  • A footpath, particularly one unformed or unmaintained; a road or track. 

  • A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant. 

  • A soft cover for a batsman's leg that protects it from damage when hit by the ball. 

  • A soft, or small, cushion. 

  • The effect produced by sustained lower reed notes in a musical piece, most common in blues music. 

  • A flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched. 

  • A prison cell. 

  • A type of wickerwork basket, especially as used as a measure of fish or other goods. 

  • An easy-paced horse; a padnag. 

  • A cushion-like thickening of the skin on the under side of the toes of animals. 

  • A toad. 

  • A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on. 

  • A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting, especially one formed of many flat sheets of writing paper; now especially such a block of paper sheets as used to write on. 

  • A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc. 

  • A synthesizer instrument sound used for sustained background sounds. 

  • A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame. 

  • A stuffed guard or protection, especially one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising. 

  • The sound of soft footsteps, or a similar noise made by an animal etc. 

  • The amount by which a signal has been reduced. 

  • A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck. 

verb
  • To imbue uniformly with a mordant. 

  • To furnish with a pad or padding. 

  • To wear a path by walking. 

  • To stuff. 

  • To deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat. 

  • To travel on foot. 

  • To travel along (a road, path etc.). 

  • To increase the size of, especially by adding undesirable filler. 

  • To walk softly, quietly or steadily, especially without shoes. 

intj
  • Indicating a soft flat sound, as of bare footsteps. 

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