different between swipe vs crib

English

Etymology

From earlier swip (with a short vowel), from Middle English swippen, swipen (“to move violently”), from Old English swipian, sweopian, swippan (“to scourge, strike, beat, lash”), from Proto-Germanic *swip?n?, *swipjan? (“to move”), from Proto-Indo-European *sweyb- (“to bend, turn, swerve, sway, swing, sweep”). Cognate with German schwippen (“to whip”), Danish svippe (“to smack; crack a whip”), Icelandic svipa (“to whip; move swiftly”). Related to sweep, swoop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /swa?p/
• Rhymes: -a?p

Verb

swipe (third-person singular simple present swipes, present participle swiping, simple past and past participle swiped)

1. (intransitive) To grab or bat quickly.

   The cat swiped at the shoelace.

2. (transitive) To strike with a strong blow in a sweeping motion.
3. (transitive) To scan or register by sliding (a swipecard etc.) through a reader.

   He swiped his card at the door.

4. (intransitive, computing) To interact with a touch screen by drawing one's finger rapidly across it.

   Swipe left to hide the toolbar.

5. (transitive, computing) To draw (one's finger) rapidly across a touch screen.
6. (transitive, informal) To steal or snatch.

   Hey! Who swiped my lunch?

   • 1968, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, 00:48:18:

     "Maybe I could swipe some Tintex from the five-and-dime."

Coordinate terms

• (to interact with a touch screen): scroll

Translations

Noun

swipe (countable and uncountable, plural swipes)

1. (countable) A quick grab, bat, or other motion with the hand or paw; a sweep.
2. (countable) A strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat or club.
3. (countable, computing) An act of interacting with a touch screen by drawing the finger rapidly across it.
4. (countable) An act of passing a swipecard through a card reader.
5. (countable, informal) A rough guess; an estimate or swag.

6. (countable, informal) An attack, insult or critical remark.
7. (uncountable) Poor, weak beer or other inferior alcoholic beverage; rotgut.

   Synonym: swipes

Anagrams

• pwise, wipes

English

Etymology

From Middle English crib, cribbe, from Old English crib, cryb, cribb, crybb (“couch, bed; manger, stall”), from Proto-Germanic *kribj? (“crib, wickerwork”), from Proto-Indo-European *greb?-, *gerb?- (“bunch, bundle, tuft, clump”), from *ger- (“to turn, twist”).

Cognate with Saterland Frisian creb (“crib”), West Frisian krêbe (“crib”), Dutch krib (“crib, manger”), German Krippe (“rack, crib”), Danish krybbe (“crib”), Icelandic krubba (“crib”). Doublet of crèche. The sense of ‘stealing, taking notes, plagiarize’ seems to have developed out of the verb.

The criminal sense may derive from the 'basket' sense, circa the mid 18th century, in that a poacher could conceal poachings in such a basket (see the 1772 Samuel Foote quotation). The cheating sense probably derives from the criminal sense.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kr?b, IPA^(key): /k??b/
• Rhymes: -?b

Noun

crib (countable and uncountable, plural cribs)

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

   Synonym: cot (British and Southern Hemisphere)
2. (Britain) A bed for a child older than a baby.
   • 1848, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre.

     a day or two afterwards I learned that Miss Temple, on returning to her own room at dawn, had found me laid in the little crib; my face against Helen Burns’s shoulder, my arms round her neck. I was asleep, and Helen was -- dead.

3. (nautical) A small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel
4. A wicker basket; compare Moses basket.
5. A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.
6. 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.
7. A bin for drying or storing grain, as with a corn crib.
8. A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.
   • Proverbs 14:4

     Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.

9. A confined space, as with a cage or office-cubicle
10. (obsolete) A job, a position; (British), an appointment.
    • 1893,— Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Stockbroker’s Clerk”.

      but if I have lost my crib and get nothing in exchange I shall feel what a soft Johnny I have been.

11. A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.
12. (slang) One’s residence, house or dwelling place, or usual place of resort.
13. 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.
14. (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.
15. (obsolete) A minor theft, extortion or embezzlement, with or without criminal intent.
16. (cribbage) The card game cribbage.
    • 1913 D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers.

      “May we play crib, Mrs. Radford?” he asked.

17. (cribbage) The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.
18. (cryptography) A known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then used to work out the remaining sections.
19. (southern New Zealand) A small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction.

    Synonym: bach (northern New Zealand)

20. (Australia, New Zealand) A packed lunch taken to work.
21. (Canada) A small raft made of timber.
22. (Britain, obsolete, thieves' cant) The stomach.
23. (slang) A cheat sheet or past test used by students; crib sheet.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

crib (third-person singular simple present cribs, present participle cribbing, simple past and past participle cribbed)

1. (transitive) To place or confine in a crib.
2. To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
   • I. Taylor

     if only the vital energy be not cribbed or cramped
3. (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.

4. (transitive, informal) To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.
5. (intransitive) To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
6. (transitive, obsolete) To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of.
7. (India) To complain, to grumble
8. To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
9. (intransitive, of a horse) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.

Derived terms

• cribber
• crib sheet

Translations

References

Anagrams

• BRIC, CBIR