Jibe

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To shift a fore-and-aft sail from one side of a vessel to the other while sailing before the wind so as to sail on the opposite tack.
  • v. To cause (a sail) to jibe.
  • n. The act of jibing.
  • verb-intransitive. Informal To be in accord; agree: Your figures jibe with mine.
  • v. Variant of gibe.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A facetious or insulting remark, a jeer or taunt.
  • n. A manoeuver in which the stern of a sailing boat or ship crosses the wind.
  • n. sudden sweep of the boom of a sailboat across from one side of the boat to the other.
  • v. To perform a jibe
  • v. To agree.
  • v. To cause to execute a jibe
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To shift, as the boom of a fore-and-aft sail, from one side of a vessel to the other when the wind is aft or on the quarter. See gybe.
  • verb-intransitive. To change a ship's course so as to cause a shifting of the boom. See jibe, v. t., and gybe.
  • verb-intransitive. To agree; to harmonize.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Nautical, to cause (a fore-and-aft sail) to swing over to the other side when the wind is aft or on the quarter.
  • Nautical, to change from one tack to the other without going about; shift a fore-and-aft Bail from one side to the other when the wind is aft or on the quarter.
  • To agree; be in harmony or accord; work together: as, the two plans did not seem to jibe.
  • n. See gibe.
  • A less common form of jib.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. shift from one side of the ship to the other
  • n. an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
  • v. be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics
  • Verb Form
    jibed    jibes    jibing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    sail   
    Variant
    gybe   
    Form
    jibed    jibing   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    agree    harmonize    jeer   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Scribe    ascribe    bribe    circumscribe    describe    gibe    imbibe    inscribe    oversubscribe    prescribe   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    gibe    catcall    banter    taunt    badinage    jeer    quip    insinuations    derision    sarcasm