rig

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The rigging of a sailing ship or other such craft.

2. 2

   Special equipment or gear used for a particular purpose.

   • The climbers each had a different rig for climbing that particular rockface.
   • We used a ground-level rig to safely learn how to tile a gable roof.
3. 3

   A large truck, especially a semi-trailer truck.

   • Every rig at the truckstop had custom-made mud-flaps.
   • "Big Joe's the name," an' I told him mine / He said: "The name of my rig is Phantom 309."
   • 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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   1. 4

      The special apparatus used for drilling wells.

   2. 5

      A costume or an outfit.

      • My sister and I always made our own rigs for Halloween.
   3. 6

      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.
   4. 7

      An imperfectly castrated horse, sheep etc.

   5. 8

      Radio equipment, especially a citizen's band transceiver.

   6. 9

      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.
      • (Gregg later admitted Cher's inadvertent discovery of his “rig” [drug bag] complete with heroin, needles, and rubber bands, hastened their breakup.)
   7. 10

      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.
      • 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.
   8. 11

      To fit out with a harness or other equipment.

   9. 12

      To dress or clothe in some costume.

   10. 13

       To make or construct something in haste or in a makeshift manner.

       • rig up a makeshift shelter
   11. 14

       To manipulate something dishonestly for personal gain or discriminatory purposes.

       • to rig an election
   12. 15

       To make free with

       To make free with; hence, to steal; to pilfer.

       • Sir Hew is a rigging thy gate or the plow
   13. 16

       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.
   14. 17

       A ridge.

   15. 18

       A wanton person

       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.
   16. 19

       A promiscuous woman.

   17. 20

       A sportive or unbecoming trick

       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.
   18. 21

       A blast of wind.

   19. 22

       To play the wanton

       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.
   20. 23

       An algebraic structure similar to a ring, but without the requirement that every element…

       An algebraic structure similar to a ring, but without the requirement that every element have an additive inverse.

   21. 24

       Initialism of rapid intervention group.

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