rib

Rippe

Einer der gebogenen Knochen im Brustkorb, die Herz und Lunge schützen.

In einfachem Englisch: 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.

Häufige Wendungen: broken rib, rib cage, crack a rib, human rib

Strebe, Rippe

Ein dünnes, meist gebogenes Teil, das etwas stützt und ihm seine Form gibt.

In einfachem Englisch: 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.

Synonyme: support, strut

Häufige Wendungen: umbrella rib, wooden rib, supporting rib

necken, aufziehen

Über jemanden freundliche kleine Scherze machen.

In einfachem Englisch: 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.

So benutzt man es: rib someone about something (They ribbed him about his new haircut.); rib someone for something (Her friends ribbed her for arriving in slippers.)

Synonyme: tease, kid

Häufige Wendungen: rib someone, rib someone about something, rib someone for something