Noun

rig (plural rigs)Category:English lemmas#RIGCategory:English nouns#RIGCategory:English countable nouns#RIGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#RIGCategory:Pages with entries#RIGCategory:Pages with 5 entries#RIG

2. (nauticalCategory:en:Nautical#RIG) The rigging of a sailing ship or other such craft.
3. Special equipment or gear used for a particular purpose.

   The climbers each had a different rig for climbing that particular rockface.Category:English terms with usage examples#RIG

   We used a ground-level rig to safely learn how to tile a gable roof.Category:English terms with usage examples#RIG

5. (USCategory:American English#RIG) A large truck, especially a semi-trailer truck.

   Every rig at the truckstop had custom-made mud-flaps.

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   • 1967, Tommy Faile, “Phantom 309”, performed by Red Sovine:

     "Big Joe's the name," an' I told him mine / He said: "The name of my rig is Phantom 309."

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   • 1975, “Convoy”, in C.W. McCall, Chip Davis (lyrics), Black Bear Road, performed by C. W. McCall:

     There's armored cars, and tanks, and Jeeps
     And rigs of every size.
     Yeah, them chicken coops was full o'bears
     And choppers filled the skies.

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6. The special apparatus used for drilling wells.
7. (informalCategory:English informal terms#RIG) A costume or an outfit.

   My sister and I always made our own rigs for Halloween.Category:English terms with usage examples#RIG

8. (slangCategory:English slang#RIG, computingCategory:en:Computing#RIG) A personal computer, typically one modified for looks.
   • 2004, Radford Castro, Let Me Play: Stories of Gaming and Emulation, page 104:

     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.

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9. An imperfectly castrated horse, sheep etc.
10. (slangCategory:English slang#RIG) Radio equipment, especially a citizen's band transceiver.
11. (slangCategory:English slang#RIG) Equipment used for taking recreational drugs.
    • 1995, Reyes Ramos, An Ethnographic Study of Heroin Abuse by Mexican Americans in San Antonio, Texas, page 36:

      […] 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.

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    • 2014, Josiah Howard, Cher: Strong Enough:

      (Gregg later admitted Cher's inadvertent discovery of his “rig” [drug bag] complete with heroin, needles, and rubber bands, hastened their breakup.)

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12. (animationCategory:en:Animation#RIG) A model outfitted with parameterized controls for animation.
    • 2002 September 20, Steph Greenberg, “Re: CG Mickey Test”, in rec.arts.animation‎ (Usenet), message-ID <Xns928EB617492BStephG@130.133.1.4>:

      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.

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    • 2012, Verónica Orvalho, Pedro Bastos, Frederic Parke, Bruno Oliveira, Xenxo Alvarez, “A Facial Rigging Survey: State of the Art Report”, in EUROGRAPHICS:

      As facial models become more and more complex, it is increasingly difficult to define a consistent rig that can work well for every possible movement.

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Verb

rig (third-person singular simple present rigs, present participle rigging, simple past and past participle rigged)Category:English lemmas#RIGCategory:English verbs#RIGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#RIGCategory:Pages with entries#RIGCategory:Pages with 5 entries#RIG

1. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#RIG) To fit out with a harness or other equipment.
   1. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#RIG, nauticalCategory:en:Nautical#RIG) To equip and fit (a ship) with sails, shrouds, and yards.
   2. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#RIG, manufacturingCategory:en:Manufacturing#RIG) 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 riggersCategory:English terms with usage examples#RIG

2. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#RIG, informalCategory:English informal terms#RIG) To dress or clothe in some costume.
3. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#RIG) To make or construct something in haste or in a makeshift manner.

   rig up a makeshift shelterCategory:English terms with usage examples#RIG

4. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#RIG) To manipulate something dishonestly for personal gain or discriminatory purposes.

   Synonym: swing

   to rig an electionCategory:English terms with usage examples#RIG

   • 2013 August 10, Schumpeter, “Cronies and capitols”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:

     Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. […] Governments have to find the best people to fill important jobs: there is a limited supply of people who understand the financial system, for example. But governments must also remember that businesses are self-interested actors who will try to rig the system for their own benefit.

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5. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#RIG, obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#RIG) To make free with; hence, to steal; to pilfer.
   • 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:

     Sir Hew is a rigging thy gate or the plow

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6. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#RIG, intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#RIG, animationCategory:en:Animation#RIG) To outfit a model with controls for animation.
   • 2012, Verónica Orvalho, Pedro Bastos, Frederic Parke, Bruno Oliveira, Xenxo Alvarez, “A Facial Rigging Survey: State of the Art Report”, in EUROGRAPHICS‎:

     We can think of rigging a 3D character as a process analogous to setting up the strings that control a puppet.

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Noun

rig (plural rigs)Category:English lemmas#RIGCategory:English nouns#RIGCategory:English countable nouns#RIGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#RIGCategory:Pages with entries#RIGCategory:Pages with 5 entries#RIG

1. (Northern EnglandCategory:Northern England English#RIG, ScotlandCategory:Scottish English#RIG, dialectCategory:English dialectal terms#RIG) A ridge.

Noun

rig (plural rigs)Category:English lemmas#RIGCategory:English nouns#RIGCategory:English countable nouns#RIGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#RIGCategory:Pages with entries#RIGCategory:Pages with 5 entries#RIG

1. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#RIG) A wanton person; one given to unbecoming conduct.
   • 1650, Thomas Fuller, “Of the Clothes and Ornaments of the Jews”, in A Pisgah-sight of Palestine and the Confines thereof, with the History of the Old and New Testament Acted thereon, London: […] J. F. for John Williams […], →OCLC, book IV, section VI (The Habits of Girles, Virgins, Brides, Wives, and Widows amongst the Jews), paragraph 2, page 110:

     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.

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2. A promiscuous woman.
   • 1936, Anthony Bertram, Like the Phoenix:

     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, demimondaine, this wanton, this fornicatress, this doxy, this concubine, this frail sister, this poor Queenie--did actually solicit me, did actually say 'coming home to-night, dearie' and my soul was not blasted enough to call a policeman.

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4. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#RIG) A sportive or unbecoming trick; a frolic.
   • 1782, William Cowper, “The Diverting History of John Gilpin, […]”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson;  […], published 1785, →OCLC, page 349:

     Away went Gilpin neck or nought, / Away went hat and wig, / He little dreamt when he ſet out / Of running ſuch a rig.

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5. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#RIG) A blast of wind.
   • 1797, Edmund Burke, “Letter III.”, in A Third Letter to a Member of the Present Parliament, on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France, London: […] F[rancis] and C[harles] Rivington, […]; sold also by J[ohn] Hatchard, […], →OCLC, page 64:

     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 building it's halcyon neſt as if the angry ocean had been ſoothed by the genial breath of May.

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Verb

rig (third-person singular simple present rigs, present participle rigging, simple past and past participle rigged)Category:English lemmas#RIGCategory:English verbs#RIGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#RIGCategory:Pages with entries#RIGCategory:Pages with 5 entries#RIG

1. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#RIG, obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#RIG) 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.

Noun

rig (plural rigs)Category:English lemmas#RIGCategory:English nouns#RIGCategory:English countable nouns#RIGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#RIGCategory:Pages with entries#RIGCategory:Pages with 5 entries#RIG

1. (algebraCategory:en:Algebra#RIG, ring theory) An algebraic structure similar to a ring, but without the requirement that every element have an additive inverse.
   • 2004, ACM SIGPLAN Notices, volume 39, ACM Press, page 81:

     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.

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   • 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.

Derived terms

• rigash^[2]

Related terms

• regj

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈʁiˀ]Category:Danish terms with IPA pronunciation#RIG
• Rhymes: -iːˀCategory:Rhymes:Danish/iːˀ#RIGCategory:Rhymes:Danish/iːˀ/1 syllable#RIG

Adjective

rig (neuter rigt, plural and definite singular attributive rige)Category:Danish lemmas#RIGCategory:Danish adjectives#RIGCategory:Danish entries with incorrect language header#RIGCategory:Pages with entries#RIGCategory:Pages with 5 entries#RIG

1. rich (having wealth), wealthy, affluent

   Antonyms: fattig, arm

   Coordinate term: velhavende

2. exuberant, luxuriant

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈʁɛɡ̊]Category:Danish terms with IPA pronunciation#RIG
• Rhymes: -eɡCategory:Rhymes:Danish/eɡ#RIG

Noun

rig c (singular definite riggen, plural indefinite rigge)Category:Danish lemmas#RIGCategory:Danish nouns#RIGCategory:Danish entries with incorrect language header#RIGCategory:Danish common-gender nouns#RIGCategory:Pages with entries#RIGCategory:Pages with 5 entries#RIG

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈʁɛɡ̊]Category:Danish terms with IPA pronunciation#RIG

Verb

rigCategory:Danish non-lemma forms#RIGCategory:Danish verb forms#RIGCategory:Danish entries with incorrect language header#RIGCategory:Pages with entries#RIGCategory:Pages with 5 entries#RIG

1. imperative of rigge

References

• “rig” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “rig” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog