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jibe

1  [jahyb] verb, jibed, jib⋅ing, noun Nautical
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–verb (used without object)
1. to shift from one side to the other when running before the wind, as a fore-and-aft sail or its boom.
2. to alter course so that a fore-and-aft sail shifts in this manner.
–verb (used with object)
3. to cause to jibe.
–noun
4. the act of jibing.
Also, gibe, gybe, jib, jibb.

Origin:
1685–95; var. of gybe < D gijben, more commonly gijpen

jibe

2  [jahyb] verb (used without object), verb (used with object), jibed, jib⋅ing, noun
gibe 1 .

jibe

3  [jahyb]
–verb (used without object), jibed, jib⋅ing.
to be in harmony or accord; agree: The report does not quite jibe with the commissioner's observations.
Origin:
1805–15, Americanism; orig. uncert.

Synonyms:
conform, accord, fit.

gibe

1  [jahyb] verb, gibed, gib⋅ing, noun
–verb (used without object)
1. to utter mocking or scoffing words; jeer.
–verb (used with object)
2. to taunt; deride.
–noun
3. a taunting or sarcastic remark.
Also, jibe.

Origin:
1560–70; perh. < MF giber to handle roughly, shake, deriv. of gibe staff, billhook

Related forms:
giber, noun
gib⋅ing⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
1. mock, sneer, gird. 2. ridicule, twit, fleer. 3. sneer, scoff, jeer.
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gibe also jibe   (jīb)   
v.   gibed also jibed, gib·ing also jib·ing, gibes also jibes

v.   intr.
To make taunting, heckling, or jeering remarks.
v.   tr.
To deride with taunting remarks.
n.  A derisive remark.

[Possibly from obsolete French giber, to handle roughly, play, from Old French.]
gib'er n., gib'ing·ly adv.
jibe 1 also gybe   (jīb)   
v.   jibed also gybed, jib·ing also gyb·ing, jibes also gybes

v.   intr.
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.   tr.
To cause (a sail) to jibe.
n.  The act of jibing.

[Alteration (perhaps influenced by jib1) of gybe, from obsolete Dutch gijben.]
jibe 2   (jīb)   
intr.v.   jibed, jib·ing, jibes Informal
To be in accord; agree: Your figures jibe with mine.

[Origin unknown.]
jibe 3   (jīb)   
v.   & n.
Variant of gibe.
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Jibe

Jibe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Jibed; p. pr. & vb. n. Jibing.] [Cf. Dan. gibbe, D. gijpen, v. i., and dial. Sw. gippa to jerk. Cf. Jib, n. & v. i.] (Naut.) 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.

Jibe

Jibe\, v. i. 1. (Naut.) To change a ship's course so as to cause a shifting of the boom. See Jibe, v. t., and Gybe.

2. To agree; to harmonize. [Colloq.] --Bartlett.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : jibe
Spanish: mofa, sarcasmo, pulla,
German: der Hohn,
Japanese: あざけり
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jibe 
"agree, fit," 1813, of unknown origin, perhaps a figurative extension of earlier jib (v.) "shift a sail or boom" (see jib). OED, however, suggests a phonetic variant of chime, as if meaning "to chime in with, to be in harmony."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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