Meaning of Rig | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A ridge.
   Northern-England, Scotland, dialectal
2. A wanton person; one given to unbecoming conduct.
   obsolete
3. An algebraic structure similar to a ring, but without the requirement that every element have an additive inverse.
4. Initialism of rapid intervention group.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
5. The rigging of a sailing ship or other such craft.
6. A promiscuous woman.
7. Special equipment or gear used for a particular purpose.
8. A sportive or unbecoming trick; a frolic.
   obsolete
9. A large truck, especially a semi-trailer truck.
   US
10. A blast of wind.
    obsolete
11. The special apparatus used for drilling wells.
12. A costume or an outfit.
    informal
13. A personal computer, typically one modified for looks.
    slang
14. An imperfectly castrated horse, sheep etc.
15. Radio equipment, especially a citizen's band transceiver.
    slang
16. Equipment used for taking recreational drugs.
    slang
17. A model outfitted with parameterized controls for animation.

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Examples

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“[…] 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.)”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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, 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.”

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