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rig¹
- /ɹɪɡ/
Rhymes with -ɪɡ
Where it comes from
From Early Modern English rygge, probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Norwegian rigge (“to bind up; wrap around; rig; equip”), Swedish dialectal rigga (“to rig a horse”), Faroese rigga (“to rig; to equip and fit; to make s.th. function”). Possibly from Proto-Germanic *rik- (“to bind”), from Proto-Indo-European *rign-, *reyg- (“to bind”); or related to Old English *wrīhan, wrīohan, wrēohan, wrēon (“to bind; wrap up; cover”). See also wry (“to cover; clothe; dress; hide”).
noun rigs
- The rigging of a sailing ship or other such craft.
- Special equipment or gear used for a particular purpose. The climbers each had a different rig for climbing that particular rockface.
- A large truck, especially a semi-trailer truck. Every rig at the truckstop had custom-made mud-flaps.
- The special apparatus used for drilling wells.
- A costume or an outfit. My sister and I always made our own rigs for Halloween.
- A personal computer, typically one modified for looks. When I saw a special version of Quake running on Voodoo hardware, I knew I would be forking out quite a bit of money on my gaming rig.
- An imperfectly castrated horse, sheep etc.
- Radio equipment, especially a citizen's band transceiver.
- Equipment used for taking recreational drugs. […] does not know how to pick up the liquid from the cooker, and he asks someone else to use his rig to put his part in his rig.
- A model outfitted with parameterized controls for animation. As for the facial stuff, I just didn't have the time to do a really good facial rig and just worked with the one I had, which was insufficiently flexible to accomplish what needed to be done.
verb rigs · rigging · rigged
- To equip and fit (a ship) with sails, shrouds, and yards.
- To move (a heavy object) with the help of slings, hoists, block and tackle, levers, or similar equipment. To rig such massive equipment requires experienced riggers
- To dress or clothe in some costume.
- To make or construct something in haste or in a makeshift manner. rig up a makeshift shelter
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To manipulate something dishonestly for personal gain or discriminatory purposes.
to rig an election
Similar: swing
- To make free with; hence, to steal; to pilfer. Sir Hew is a rigging thy gate or the plow
- To outfit a model with controls for animation. We can think of rigging a 3D character as a process analogous to setting up the strings that control a puppet.
rig²
- /ɹɪɡ/
Rhymes with -ɪɡ
Where it comes from
See ridge.
noun rigs
- A ridge.
rig³
- /ɹɪɡ/
Rhymes with -ɪɡ
Where it comes from
Compare wriggle.
noun rigs
- A wanton person; one given to unbecoming conduct. Let none condemn them [girls] for Rigs, becauſe thus hoiting vvith boys, ſeeing the ſimplicity of their age vvas a Patent to priviledge any innocent paſtime, and fevv mo[r]e years vvill make them bluſh themſelves into better manners.
- A promiscuous woman. However, terrible as it may seem to the tall maiden sisters of J.P.'s in Queen Anne houses with walled vegetable gardens, this courtesan, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie, street-walker, this trollop, this trull, this baggage, this hussy, this drab, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, demirep, demi
- A sportive or unbecoming trick; a frolic. Away went Gilpin neck or nought, / Away went hat and wig, / He little dreamt when he ſet out / Of running ſuch a rig.
- A blast of wind. This ſanguine little king's-fiſher (not preſcient of the ſtorm, as by his inſtinct he ought to be) appearing at that uncertain ſeaſon, before the riggs of Old Michaelmas were yet well compoſed, and when the inclement ſtorms of winter were approaching, began to flicker over the ſeas and was buſy in b
verb rigs · rigging · rigged
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To play the wanton; to act in an unbecoming manner; to play tricks.
1616, George Chapman, The Hymn to Hermes, in The Whole Works of Homer (tr.),
Rigging and rifling all ways, and no noise / Made with thy soft feet, where it all destroys.
Similar: harlotize
rig⁴
- /ɹɪɡ/
Rhymes with -ɪɡ
Where it comes from
From ring (“algebraic structure”), omitting the letter n to suggest the lack of negatives. Compare rng (“structure like a ring but lacking a multiplicative identity”).
noun rigs
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An algebraic structure similar to a ring, but without the requirement that every element have an additive inverse.
The set of natural numbers N with the usual operations of addition and multiplication is a rig, but not a ring. The set of integers Z is a ring. For a rig/ring (R,0,+,1,−), the set of polynomials R[x] on a generator x with the usual operations of addition and multiplication is also a rig/ring.
Similar: semiring
RIG⁵
noun RIGs
- Initialism of rapid intervention group
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: carriage, equipage, outfit, getup, set, manipulate, set up, ibc, truck, lorry, van, chassis, tackle, ambulance, hub, team
Translations
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noun special equipment or gear
| Español | aparejo |
|---|---|
| Português | aparelhagem |
| Deutsch | Vorrichtung, Anlage, Ausrüstung, Gerätschaft |
| Italiano | apparecchiatura, attrezzatura, strumento |
| Ελληνικά | εξοπλισμός exoplismós |
| Русский | устано́вка ustanóvka, снаряжение snarjaženije, оборудование oborudovanije |
noun the arrangement of masts etc.
| Español | aparejo |
|---|---|
| Português | mastreação |
| Français | gréements |
| Deutsch | Takelage, Takelung |
| Italiano | attrezzatura, sartiame, cordame |
| Ελληνικά | εξάρτιση exártisi, αρματωσιά armatosiá |
| Русский | осна́стка osnástka, такела́ж takeláž |
noun the special apparatus used for drilling oil wells
| 日本語 | リグ rigu |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 鑽機 /钻机 zuànjī |
| Português | perfuratriz, perfuradora |
| Français | foreuse |
| Deutsch | Bohrturm, Bohrinsel |
| Italiano | trivella, piattaforma di trivellazione |
| Ελληνικά | γεωτρητικός εξοπλισμός geotritikós exoplismós |
| Русский | бурова́я вы́шка burovája výška |
| Tiếng Việt | giàn khoan, nhà giàn |
noun a costume or outfit
| Français | costume, tenue |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Aufmachung |
| Italiano | tenuta |
| Ελληνικά | ιματισμός imatismós |
| Русский | костю́м kostjúm, снаряже́ние snarjažénije, наряд narjad, прикид prikid |
noun computer case
| Italiano | telaio |
|---|---|
| Русский | системный блок sistemnyj blok |
verb to fit out with a harness
| Español | aparejar |
|---|---|
| Français | harnacher |
| Русский | снаряжа́ть snarjažátʹ |
verb to equip and fit a ship
| Español | aparejar |
|---|---|
| Português | aparelhar |
| Français | gréer |
| Deutsch | auftakeln |
| Italiano | attrezzare |
| Ελληνικά | εξαρτίζω exartízo, εξαρτύω exartýo, αρματώνω armatóno |
| עברית | חִבְלֵל khivlel |
verb to make or construct something in haste
| Français | bâcler |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | zurechtbasteln |
| Ελληνικά | σκαρώνω skaróno |
verb to manipulate something dishonestly
| Español | trucar, amañar, apañar, truquear |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 操縱 /操纵 cāozòng |
| Português | manipular |
| Français | truquer, trafiquer |
| Deutsch | manipulieren |
| Italiano | manipolare, truccare |
| Ελληνικά | μαγειρεύω mageirévo, στήνω stíno |
| Română | falsifica, truca |
| Русский | фальсифицировать falʹsificirovatʹ |
| Tiếng Việt | gian lận, lừa đảo |
| עברית | זייף ziyéf |
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