crib vs report

crib

verb
  • To complain, to grumble 

  • 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 install timber supports, as with cribbing. 

noun
  • 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. 

  • A bed for a child older than a baby. 

  • 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. 

report

verb
  • To make a formal statement, especially of complaint, about (someone). 

  • To write news reports (for); to cover as a journalist or reporter. 

  • To relate details of (an event or incident); to recount, describe (something). 

  • To repeat (something one has heard), to retell; to pass on, convey (a message, information etc.). 

  • To be accountable to or subordinate to (someone) in a hierarchy; to receive orders from (someone); to give official updates to (someone who is above oneself in a hierarchy). 

  • To show up or appear at an appointed time; to present oneself. 

  • To notify someone of (particular intelligence, suspicions, illegality, misconduct etc.); to make notification to relevant authorities; to submit a formal report of. 

  • To take minutes of (a speech, the doings of a public body, etc.); to write down from the lips of a speaker. 

noun
  • An employee whose position in a corporate hierarchy is below that of a particular manager. 

  • Reputation. 

  • The sharp, loud sound from a gun or explosion. 

  • A piece of information describing, or an account of certain events given or presented to someone, with the most common adpositions being by (referring to creator of the report) and on (referring to the subject). 

How often have the words crib and report occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )