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ribbed

adjectiveB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #11,623 of 15,258leans written

Ribbed means marked with raised parallel bands. A ribbed jumper, ribbed vaulting, ribbed cuffs.

The ribs do work rather than decoration: in knitting they let the fabric stretch and spring back, which is why cuffs and collars are ribbed. In Gothic building, ribbed vaulting carries the load along the ribs so the panels between can be thin. Note rib beneath it.

Definitions of ribbed

  1. 1adjectiveribbedMarked with raised parallel bands.B2+

    “He wore a thick ribbed jumper to keep out the cold.”

ribbed is a quality of surface.

Where it comes from

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *h₁rebʰ- — arch, ceiling, cover

  2. Proto-Germanic

    *ribją — rib, reef

  3. Proto-West Germanic

    *ribi

  4. Old English

    ribb — rib

  5. Middle English

    rib

  6. English

    rib

  7. English, today

    ribbed

rib comes from Middle English rib, ribbe, from Old English ribb (“rib”), from Proto-West Germanic ribi, from Proto-Germanic ribją (“rib, reef”), from Proto-Indo-European h₁rebʰ- (“arch, ceiling, cover”). Cognate with Dutch rib (“rib”), Norwegian ribbe (“sparerib”), Norwegian ribben (“rib”), Low German ribbe (“rib”), German Rippe (“rib”), Old Norse rif (“rib, reef”), Serbo-Croatian rèbro (“rib”). wife or woman In reference to the creation of Eve from Adam's rib in the Bible.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire

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ribbed in the wild

  • Laid paper is a type of paper with a ribbed texture imparted by the manufacturing process.

    Laid paper

  • However, walls did start to become thinner through the use of pointed arches and ribbed vaults to distribute weight more evenly.

    Romano-Gothic

  • However, the common name ribbed mussel is also used for the Southern Hemisphere mussel Aulacomya atra.

    Geukensia demissa

  • The ribbed shells of this species usually attain a length of 10 cm length, and can be as large as 13 cm.

    Geukensia demissa

  • Some regions of the upper plains unit display large fractures and troughs with raised rims; such regions are called ribbed upper plains.

    Upper plains unit

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the ribb family

rib

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