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/ɹɪb/ · noun
(anatomy) Any of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans and other animals and extending from the spine to or toward the sternum..
On an early winter afternoon, clear but not cold, when the vegetable world was a weird multitude of skeletons through whose ribs the sun shone freely, a gleaming landau came to a pause on the crest of a hill in Wessex.
a broken rib on the umbrella
'Near to it was the portrait of his rib, Dame Middleton.'
He always gets ribbed for his outrageous shirts.
Mr. Musk, who wore a suit and tie to Thursday’s meeting instead of his usual T-shirt after Mr. Trump publicly ribbed him about his sloppy appearance, defended himself by saying that he had three companies with a market cap of tens of billions of dollars, and that his results spoke for themselves.
It [lead] were too gross To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave.
Use rib when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Rib means (anatomy) Any of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans and other animals and extending from the spine to or toward the sternum..
Common synonyms include ridicule, blackguard, guy, laugh at.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
On an early winter afternoon, clear but not cold, when the vegetable world was a weird multitude of skeletons through whose ribs the sun shone freely, a gleaming landau came to a pause on the crest of a hill in Wessex.
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