rib

costilla

Uno de los huesos curvos del pecho que protegen el corazón y los pulmones.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Expresiones frecuentes: broken rib, rib cage, crack a rib, human rib

varilla, costilla

Una pieza delgada, generalmente curva, que sostiene algo y ayuda a darle forma.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Sinónimos: support, strut

Expresiones frecuentes: umbrella rib, wooden rib, supporting rib

tomar el pelo, bromear con

Hacer bromas suaves sobre alguien de manera amistosa.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

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

Sinónimos: tease, kid

Expresiones frecuentes: rib someone, rib someone about something, rib someone for something