rig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rĭg
ipa: /ɹɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
Forms: form: rigs
Etymology: 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”).
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The rigging of a sailing ship or other such craft.
examples: text: The climbers each had a different rig for climbing that particular rockface.
text: We used a ground-level rig to safely learn how to tile a gable roof.
glosses: Special equipment or gear used for a particular purpose.
examples: text: Every rig at the truckstop had custom-made mud-flaps.
text: "Big Joe's the name," an' I told him mine / He said: "The name of my rig is Phantom 309."
ref: 1967, Tommy Faile, “Phantom 309”, performed by Red Sovine:
text: 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.
ref: 1975, “Convoy”, in C.W. McCall, Chip Davis (lyrics), Black Bear Road, performed by C. W. McCall:
glosses: A large truck, especially a semi-trailer truck.
glosses: The special apparatus used for drilling wells.
examples: text: My sister and I always made our own rigs for Halloween.
glosses: A costume or an outfit.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2004, Radford Castro, Let Me Play: Stories of Gaming and Emulation, page 104:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A personal computer, typically one modified for looks.
glosses: An imperfectly castrated horse, sheep etc.
glosses: Radio equipment, especially a citizen's band transceiver.
examples: text: […] 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.
ref: 1995, Reyes Ramos, An Ethnographic Study of Heroin Abuse by Mexican Americans in San Antonio, Texas, page 36:
text: (Gregg later admitted Cher's inadvertent discovery of his “rig” [drug bag] complete with heroin, needles, and rubber bands, hastened their breakup.)
ref: 2014, Josiah Howard, Cher: Strong Enough:
glosses: Equipment used for taking recreational drugs.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2002 September 20, Steph Greenberg, “Re: CG Mickey Test”, in rec.arts.animation (Usenet), message-ID <Xns928EB617492BStephG@130.133.1.4>:
text: 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.
ref: 2012, Verónica Orvalho, Pedro Bastos, Frederic Parke, Bruno Oliveira, Xenxo Alvarez, “A Facial Rigging Survey: State of the Art Report”, in EUROGRAPHICS:
qualifier: animation
glosses: A model outfitted with parameterized controls for animation.
Derived terms: Bermuda rig
big rig
Carolina rig
dab rig
drilling rig
drill rig
fore-and-aft rig
fore and aft rig
fractional rig
gaff-rig
gaff rig
gunter rig
hair rig
jerry-rig
junk rig
jury-rig
lighting rig
Marconi rig
nigger-rig
oil rig
piling rig
rig doctor
rig pig
semi rig
square rig
Texas rig