rig

plural rigs

1. nauticalThe rigging of a sailing ship or other such craft.
2. Special equipment or gear used for a particular purpose.

   We used a ground-level rig to safely learn how to tile a gable roof.

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   The climbers each had a different rig for climbing that particular rockface.

3. USA large truck, especially a semi-trailer truck.

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

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

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

   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.

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

4. The special apparatus used for drilling wells.
5. informalA costume or an outfit.

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

6. slangcomputingA 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.

   2004, Radford Castro, Let Me Play: Stories of Gaming and Emulation, page 104

7. An imperfectly castrated horse, sheep etc.
8. slangRadio equipment, especially a citizen's band transceiver.
9. slangEquipment 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.

   1995, Reyes Ramos, An Ethnographic Study of Heroin Abuse by Mexican Americans in San Antonio, Texas, page 36

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

   2014, Josiah Howard, Cher: Strong Enough

10. animationA model outfitted with parameterized controls for animation.

    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.

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

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    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.

    2002 September 20, Steph Greenberg, “Re: CG Mickey Test”, in rec.arts.animation (Usenet), message-ID <Xns928EB617492BStephG@130.133.1.4>

present singular third person rigs · participle present rigging · participle past rigged · past rigged

1. To fit out with a harness or other equipment.
   1. transitivenauticalTo equip and fit (a ship) with sails, shrouds, and yards.
   2. transitivebusinessTo 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

2. informaltransitiveTo dress or clothe in some costume.
3. transitiveTo make or construct something in haste or in a makeshift manner.

   rig up a makeshift shelter

4. transitiveTo manipulate something dishonestly for personal gain or discriminatory purposes.

   to rig an election

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   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.

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

   Synonyms: swing

5. obsoletetransitiveTo make free with; hence, to steal; to pilfer.

   Sir Hew is a rigging thy gate or the plow

   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

6. intransitivetransitiveanimationTo 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.

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

plural rigs

1. Northern EnglandScotlanddialectalA ridge.

plural rigs

1. obsoleteA 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.

   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

2. A promiscuous woman.

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   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.

   1936, Anthony Bertram, Like the Phoenix

3. obsoleteA 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.

   1782, William Cowper, “The Diverting History of John Gilpin, […]”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], published 1785, →OCLC, page 349

4. obsoleteA blast of wind.

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   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.

   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

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1. intransitiveobsoleteTo 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: harlotize

plural rigs

1. ring theoryalgebraAn 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.

   2004, ACM SIGPLAN Notices, volume 39, ACM Press, page 81

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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.

   Synonyms: semiring

plural RIGs

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of rapid intervention group.