The difference between Bone and Rib

Bone as a noun (uncountable):

A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.

Bone as a noun (countable):

Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.

Bone as a noun:

A bone of a fish; a fishbone.

Bone as a noun:

A bonefish

Bone as a noun:

One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.

Bone as a noun:

One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.

Bone as a noun:

Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.

Bone as a noun (figurative):

The framework of anything.

Bone as a noun:

An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

Bone as a noun (US, informal):

A dollar.

Bone as a noun (American football, informal):

The wishbone formation.

Bone as a noun (slang):

An erect penis; a boner.

Bone as a noun (slang, mostly, plural):

A domino or dice.

Bone as an adjective:

Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

Bone as a verb:

To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.

Bone as a verb:

To fertilize with bone.

Bone as a verb:

To put whalebone into.

Bone as a verb (civil engineering):

To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.

Bone as a verb (vulgar, slang, usually of a man):

To have sexual intercourse with.

Bone as a verb (Australia, dated, in [[Aboriginal]] culture):

To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.

Bone as a verb (usually with "up"):

To study.

Bone as a verb:

To polish boots to a shiny finish.

Bone as a verb (transitive, slang):

To apprehend, steal.

Bone as a verb (carpentry, masonry, surveying):

To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.

Bone as a noun (slang):

Rib as a noun:

Any of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans and other animals and extending from the spine to or toward the sternum

Rib as a noun:

A part or piece, similar to a rib, and serving to shape or support something

Rib as a noun:

A cut of meat enclosing one or more rib bones

Rib as a noun (nautical):

Any of several curved members attached to a ship's keel and extending upward and outward to form the framework of the hull

Rib as a noun:

Any of several transverse pieces that provide an aircraft wing with shape and strength

Rib as a noun (architecture):

A long, narrow, usually arched member projecting from the surface of a structure, especially such a member separating the webs of a vault

Rib as a noun (knitting):

A raised ridge in knitted material or in cloth

Rib as a noun (botany):

The main, or any of the prominent veins of a leaf

Rib as a noun:

A teasing joke

Rib as a noun (Ireland, colloquial):

A single strand of hair.

Rib as a noun:

A stalk of celery.

Rib as a noun (archaic, literary, humorous):

A wife or woman.

Rib as a verb:

To shape, support, or provide something with a rib or ribs.

Rib as a verb:

To tease or make fun of someone in a good-natured way.

Rib as a verb:

To enclose, as if with ribs, and protect; to shut in.

Rib as a verb (transitive):

To leave strips of undisturbed ground between the furrows in ploughing (land).