rib

kaburga

Göğüs çevresinde bulunan, kalbi ve akciğerleri koruyan kavisli kemiklerden biri.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: One of the curved bones around your chest that protect your heart and lungs.

• He broke a rib in the fall.
• Her ribs hurt when she coughed.
• The doctor checked his rib cage for injuries.

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: broken rib, rib cage, crack a rib, human rib

destek çıtası, kaburga

Bir şeyi destekleyip ona biçim veren, genellikle kavisli ve ince parça.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: A thin, usually curved piece that supports something and helps give it its shape.

• One rib of the umbrella is bent.
• Wooden ribs support the boat's outer shell.
• The builder replaced a damaged rib in the roof.

Eş anlamlılar: support, strut

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: umbrella rib, wooden rib, supporting rib

takılmak, şaka yollu alay etmek

Birine dostça, kırıcı olmayan şakalar yaparak takılmak.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: To make gentle jokes about someone in a friendly way.

• My friends love to rib me.
• We ribbed Dan about his terrible singing.
• She was gently ribbed for forgetting her own birthday.

Nasıl kullanılır: rib someone about something (They ribbed him about his new haircut.); rib someone for something (Her friends ribbed her for arriving in slippers.)

Eş anlamlılar: tease, kid

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: rib someone, rib someone about something, rib someone for something