n.

1. A bed with high sides for a young child or baby.
2. 1. A small building, usually with slatted sides, for storing corn.
   2. A rack or trough for fodder; a manger.
   3. A stall for cattle.
3. A small crude cottage or room.
4. Slang. One's home.
5. A framework to support or strengthen a mine or shaft.
6. A wicker basket.
7. 1. A petty theft.
   2. Plagiarism.
   3. See pony (sense 4).
8. Games. A set of cards made up from discards by each player in cribbage, used by the dealer.

v., cribbed, crib·bing, cribs.

v.tr.

1. To confine in or as if in a crib.
2. To furnish with a crib.
3. 1. To plagiarize (an idea or answer, for example).
   2. To steal.

v.intr.

To plagiarize; cheat.

[Middle English, manger, from Old English cribb.]

cribber crib'ber n.

• Genre: Rock
• Active: '90s, 2000s

Biography

Los Angeles-based musician Devin Sarno, whose principal instrument is electric bass, began Crib in the early '90s as an experimental solo project. His initial focus was on loud, experimental feedback approaches influenced by such notables on the noise scene as Merzbow and Masonna, which informed his initial series of singles, cassettes, and compilation appearances. He could also be found working with a variety of LA-based groups and performers, turning up on albums by Slug and That Dog. Towards the mid-'90s, Sarno took a more reflective, quietly intense turn with Crib, his pieces now reminiscent of such composers and bands as Thomas Koner, Arvo Part, and Main. After a series of further compilation spots and an initial collaboration album with guitarist Nels Cline under his own name, Sarno issued an official Crib debut in 1998, She Is Church, giving him the chance to explore his approaches at length. Following another collaboration with Cline, Sarno released the second Crib CD, Forward Back, in 2000, with plans for another release the following year. The album was delayed until 2002, when Remnant was released by True Classical CDs in the spring. ~ Ned Raggett, All Music Guide

Representative Albums:

She Is Church, Forward Back

Similar Artists:

Centimeters, Solid Eye, Miss Murgatroid

Influences:

Masonna, Mick Harris, Merzbow, Arvo Pärt

She Is Church Buy this CD

verb

To reproduce (the artistic work of another, for example) illicitly: pirate, plagiarize. See give/take/reciprocity, words.

n. an underground ditch or trenchlike structure designed for the discharge of low- and intermediate-level liquid nuclear wastes directly into the ground. A crib is about 20 feet deep and up to 1, 400 feet long, lined with rock and soil.

See the Introduction, Abbreviations and Pronunciation for further details.

A crib is a section of an encoded or enciphered message that can easily be rendered into plain text, thus providing a tool whereby a skilled cryptanalyst can crack the entire code or message. A famous example of a "crib" from outside the world of espionage is the Rosetta Stone, used to translate Egyptian hieroglyphics.

Essentially a thank-you note from a group of priests to a magnanimous king, the stone was addressed to the second-century B.C. ruler Ptolemy V, who, like all the Ptolemies, spoke Greek rather than Egyptian. Therefore, the priests sent the note in Greek, as well as in hieroglyphics and demotic, a simplified version of hieroglyphic writing. Thus the French archaeologist Jean-François Champollion, who studied the Rosetta Stone in the early nineteenth century, was able to translate the Greek portion, and from this crack the code first of demotic, and then of hieroglyphics.

Any time a force sends out a message whose content is predictable to the enemy, this offers an opportunity for a resourceful cryptanalyst to find a crib. Thus, when the German high command in World War II sent greetings to Adolf Hitler every April 20—the Fuhrer's birthday—it was fairly easy for Allied cryptanalysts to guess the gist of the message. This would have been so no matter how carefully it had been enciphered or encoded, but the Germans sometimes made things even easier by sending the same message in plain text.

Further Reading

Books

Kahn, David. Kahn on Codes: Secrets of the New Cryptology. New York: Macmillan, 1983.

Konheim, Alan G. Cryptography: A Primer. New York: Wiley, 1981.

Lubbe, J. C. A. van der. Basic Methods of Cryptography. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Newton, David E. Encyclopedia of Cryptology. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1997.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - barneseng, julekrybbe, hytte, kortbunke, tømmerkiste, bordel, let måltid, plagiat
v. tr. - plagiere, indespærre, hugge
v. intr. - bruge snydeoversættelse, knurre, brokke sig

idioms:

• crib death    vuggedød

Nederlands (Dutch)
ledikantje, krib, kerststal, plagiaat, spiekvertaling, spiekbriefje, hut, schachtbekleding (mijn), balken voor fundering, (goedkoop) bordeel, lichte maaltijd, plagiëren, opsluiten in kleine ruimte, jatten, mopperen, afkijken

Français (French)
n. - (GB) crèche (de la Nativité), (Agric) râtelier, emprunt, (École, Univ) antisèche, corrigé de thèmes, etc employés subrepticement, (abrév) jeu de cartes pour deux personnes
v. tr. - copier
v. intr. - (gén) faire des emprunts, copier sur

idioms:

• crib death    mort du nourrisson

Deutsch (German)
v. - abschreiben
n. - Kinderbett, Krippe

idioms:

• crib death    plötzlicher Kindstod

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - διαπράττω λογοκλοπή, εγκλείω, μαντρώνω, χρησιμοποιώ τυφλοσούρτη, αντιγράφω με σκονάκι, κλέβω, σουφρώνω
n. - φάτνη, παχνί, λίκνο, (μωρουδιακή) κούνια, σχολική μετάφραση (κν. τυφλοσούρτης), σκονάκι (για αντιγραφή σε εξετάσεις), λογοκλοπή/-ία

idioms:

• crib death    θάνατος ανεπιτήρητου βρέφους

Italiano (Italian)
copiare, culla, greppia, bigino

idioms:

• crib death    morte in culla

Português (Portuguese)
v. - plagiar, furtar, colar (colégio)
n. - presépio (m), berço (m)

idioms:

• crib death    síndrome (f) da morte no berço

Русский (Russian)
списывать, колыбель, ясли

idioms:

• crib death    внезапная смерть младенца

Español (Spanish)
n. - cuna, pesebre, chuleta, machete
v. tr. - copiar, plagiar
v. intr. - usar chuletas, copiarse, plagiarse

idioms:

• crib death    muerte súbita infantil

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - stänga in, knycka (vard.), planka (vard.), skriva av (vard.), fuska (vard.)
n. - krubba, bås, julkrubba, babykorg, vagga, babysäng (am.), binge (am.), koja, plagiat (vard.), lathund (sl.)

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
小儿床, 贮藏箱, 粮仓, 秣槽, 拘禁, 关入栅栏, 抄袭

idioms:

• crib death    婴儿猝死

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 小兒床, 貯藏箱, 糧倉, 秣槽
v. tr. - 拘禁, 關入柵欄
v. intr. - 抄襲

idioms:

• crib death    嬰兒猝死

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 구유, 도용, 주해서
v. tr. - ~에 ~을 갖추다, 가두다, 좀도둑질하다
v. intr. - 좀도둑질하다, 표절하다, 주해서를 쓰다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 幼児用寝台, 飼料棚, 盗用, 貯蔵箱, とらの巻, ベビーベッド
v. - 閉じ込める, 盗用する, カンニングする, とらの巻を使う

idioms:

• crib death    寝台死

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) نقل الأجوبه من غيره, انتحل, سرق (الاسم) سرير للطفل, معلف, ترجمه, سرقه أدبيه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮מיטת-תינוק, תמונת ישו התינוק, תיבה, איבוס, מחסן, חדרון, העתקה, גניבה, תרגום, בית קטן, גנבה ספרותית, משחק קלפים, מסגרת פיר של מכרה, קורות כבדות המשמשות כיסודות בקרקע רכה, ארוחה קלה, בית-בושת (מדוברת), סל נצרים‬
v. tr. - ‮העתיק, גנב, כלא, סגר, סגר במקום צר‬
v. intr. - ‮רטן (מדוברת), נעזר בהעתקה‬

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