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Definitions and meaning of rig

rig

Pronunciation

• enPR: rĭg, IPA^(key): /ɹɪɡ/
• Rhymes: -ɪɡ

Etymology 1

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

rig (plural rigs)

2. (nautical) The rigging of a sailing ship or other such craft.
3. Special equipment or gear used for a particular purpose.

4. (US) A large truck such as a semi-trailer truck.
5. The special apparatus used for drilling wells.
6. (informal) A costume or an outfit.

7. (slang, computing) A personal computer, typically one modified for looks.
8. An imperfectly castrated horse, sheep etc.
9. (slang) Radio equipment, especially a citizen's band transceiver.
10. (slang) Equipment used for taking recreational drugs.
11. (animation) A model outfitted with parameterized controls for animation.

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Translations

Verb

rig (third-person singular simple present rigs, present participle rigging, simple past and past participle rigged)

1. (transitive) To fit out with a harness or other equipment.
   1. (transitive, nautical) To equip and fit (a ship) with sails, shrouds, and yards.
   2. (transitive, manufacturing) To move (a heavy object) with the help of slings, hoists, block and tackle, levers, or similar equipment.

2. (transitive, informal) To dress or clothe in some costume.
3. (transitive) To make or construct something in haste or in a makeshift manner.

4. (transitive) To manipulate something dishonestly for personal gain or discriminatory purposes.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To make free with; hence, to steal; to pilfer.
6. (transitive, intransitive, animation) To outfit a model with controls for animation.

Derived terms

• rig out

Translations

Etymology 2

See ridge.

Noun

rig (plural rigs)

1. (Northern England, Scotland, dialect) A ridge.

Etymology 3

Compare wriggle.

Noun

rig (plural rigs)

1. (obsolete) A wanton; one given to unbecoming conduct.
2. A promiscuous woman.
4. (obsolete) A sportive or unbecoming trick; a frolic.
5. (obsolete) A blast of wind.

Verb

rig (third-person singular simple present rigs, present participle rigging, simple past and past participle rigged)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) 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.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:harlotize

Etymology 4

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

rig (plural rigs)

1. (algebra, ring theory) An algebraic structure similar to a ring, but without the requirement that every element have an additive inverse.
   • 2004, Jerzy Marcinkowski (editor), Computer Science Logic: 18th International Workshop, CSL 2004, Proceedings, Springer, LNCS 3210, page 17,

     It follows that for each object A its endomorphisms End_C(A) = C(A,A) has the structure of what is now called a rig, that is to say a (commutative) ring without negatives.

Synonyms

• (algebraic structure like a ring but without additive inverses): semiring

Anagrams

• G.R.I., GRI, IrG

Albanian

Etymology

From Greek ρήγας (rígas), cognate with the also borrowed Romanian rigă. Ultimately from Latin rex, thus forming a doublet of regj.

Noun

rig m (plural riga)

1. (rare, card games) king in a pack of playing cards

   Synonyms: mbret, kerr

Derived terms

• rigash

Related terms

• regj

References

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse ríkr (“rich”), from Proto-Germanic *rīkijaz, a derivative of *rīks (“king, ruler”), itself a borrowing from Proto-Celtic *rīxs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈʁiˀ]
• Rhymes: -iːˀ

Adjective

rig (neuter rigt, plural and definite singular attributive rige, comparative rigere, superlative (predicative) rigest, superlative (attributive) rigeste)

1. rich (having wealth), wealthy, affluent
2. exuberant, luxuriant

Inflection

Etymology 2

From English rig.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈʁɛɡ̊]
• Rhymes: -eɡ

Noun

rig c (singular definite riggen, plural indefinite rigge)

1. rig (the arrangement of masts etc., the special apparatus used for drilling oil wells)

Inflection

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈʁɛɡ̊]

Verb

rig

1. imperative of rigge

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈr͈ʲiɣ/

Verb

·rig

1. first-person singular future conjunct of téit

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