| nudge | | |
| n. (act) | 1. jog, nudge | a slight push or shake. |
| ~ push, pushing | the act of applying force in order to move something away.; "he gave the door a hard push"; "the pushing is good exercise" |
| v. (contact) | 2. nudge, poke at, prod | to push against gently.; "She nudged my elbow when she saw her friend enter the restaurant" |
| ~ jog | give a slight push to. |
| ~ elbow | shove one's elbow into another person's ribs. |
| ~ push, force | move with force,.; "He pushed the table into a corner" |
| v. (communication) | 3. nudge | push into action by pestering or annoying gently. |
| ~ push, bear on | press, drive, or impel (someone) to action or completion of an action.; "He pushed her to finish her doctorate" |
| rib | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. rib | support resembling the rib of an animal. |
| ~ hull | the frame or body of ship. |
| ~ screw thread, thread | the raised helical rib going around a screw. |
| ~ support | any device that bears the weight of another thing.; "there was no place to attach supports for a shelf" |
| ~ umbrella | a lightweight handheld collapsible canopy. |
| ~ wing | one of the horizontal airfoils on either side of the fuselage of an airplane. |
| n. (body) | 2. costa, rib | any of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum in humans (and similar bones in most vertebrates). |
| ~ craniate, vertebrate | animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium. |
| ~ craniate, vertebrate | animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium. |
| ~ bone, os | rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates. |
| ~ true rib | one of the first seven ribs in a human being which attach to the sternum. |
| ~ costal cartilage | the cartilages that connect the sternum and the ends of the ribs; its elasticity allows the chest to move in respiration. |
| n. (food) | 3. rib | cut of meat including one or more ribs. |
| ~ cut of meat, cut | a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass. |
| ~ sparerib | a cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off. |
| ~ rib roast, standing rib roast | a cut of meat (beef or venison) including more than one rib and the meat located along the outside of the ribs. |
| n. (communication) | 4. rib | a teasing remark. |
| ~ comment, remark, input | a statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief or adds information.; "from time to time she contributed a personal comment on his account" |
| n. (body) | 5. rib | a riblike supporting or strengthening part of an animal or plant. |
| ~ quill, calamus, shaft | the hollow spine of a feather. |
| ~ nervure, vein | one of the horny ribs that stiffen and support the wing of an insect. |
| ~ anatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part, structure | a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing.; "he has good bone structure" |
| n. (artifact) | 6. rib | a projecting molding on the underside of a vault or ceiling; may be ornamental or structural. |
| ~ moulding, molding | a decorative strip used for ornamentation or finishing. |
| v. (creation) | 7. rib | form vertical ribs by knitting.; "A ribbed sweater" |
| ~ handicraft | a craft that requires skillful hands. |
| ~ knit | make (textiles) by knitting.; "knit a scarf" |
| v. (communication) | 8. blackguard, guy, jest at, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, rib, ridicule, roast | subject to laughter or ridicule.; "The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house"; "The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher"; "His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday" |
| ~ bemock, mock | treat with contempt.; "The new constitution mocks all democratic principles" |
| ~ tease | mock or make fun of playfully.; "the flirting man teased the young woman" |
| ~ lampoon, satirise, satirize | ridicule with satire.; "The writer satirized the politician's proposal" |
| ~ debunk, expose | expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas.; "The physicist debunked the psychic's claims" |
| ~ stultify | cause to appear foolish.; "He stultified himself by contradicting himself and being inconsistent" |
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