Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling a rib; of the nature of a rib.
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Examples
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Kitiara descended the rib-like stairs of the platform, Tanis following.
Finnegan teoriza la practica de cuerdas Carlos G.Tonda 2010
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The FabLab House was designed as an ellipsoid structure prefabricated from wood that is formed into a rib-like structure.
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These German airships were held together by rib-like skeletons of steel and aluminium and a stout inelastic canvas outer-skin, within which was an impervious rubber gas-bag, cut up by transverse dissepiments into from fifty to a hundred compartments.
The War in the Air Herbert George 2006
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Kitiara descended the rib-like stairs of the platform, Tanis following.
Dragons of Spring Dawning Weis, Margaret 1985
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These German airships were held together by rib-like skeletons of steel and aluminium and a stout inelastic canvas outer-skin, within which was an impervious rubber gas-bag, cut up by transverse dissepiments into from fifty to a hundred compartments.
The War in the Air 1906
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A piece of the Platano Guineo soaked in brandy retains its color unchanged; but the rib-like fibres which connect the rind with the pulp then become black, and imbibe a bitter taste.
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853
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He was conspicuous from the finely-coloured rib-like ridges on each side of his cheeks, the clear blue and scarlet hue of which, on such a hideous long face and muzzle, with its small, deeply-sunk malicious eyes, and projecting brow and cheeks, seemed almost as if beauty and bestiality were here combined.
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The beams of the huts had grown dark with age, many of their roofs were riddled with holes, others had but a tile of the roof remaining, and yet others were reduced to the rib-like framework of the same.
Dead Souls 1842
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His other specimens consisted of single plates of a variety of Coccosteus, undistinguishable in their form and proportions from those of the _Coccosteus decipiens_, but which exceeded by about one-third the average size of the corresponding parts in that species; and of a rib-like bone, that belonged apparently to what few of the ichthyolites of the Lower Old Red seem to have possessed, -- an osseous internal skeleton.
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They were working to remove a bolted flange, a rib-like assembly that must be taken out in order to install another piece of equipment -- known as a flanged spool -- over the drill pipe and connect it to the new containment dome.
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