rig

Meanings

Noun

• The rigging of a sailing ship or other such craft.
• Special equipment or gear used for a particular purpose.
• A large truck such as a semi-tractor.
• The special apparatus used for drilling wells.
• A costume or an outfit.
• A personal computer, typically one modified for looks.
• An imperfectly castrated horse, sheep etc.
• Radio equipment, especially a citizen's band transceiver.
• A model outfitted with parameterized controls for animation.
• A ridge.
• A wanton; one given to unbecoming conduct.
• A promiscuous woman.
• A sportive or unbecoming trick; a frolic.
• A blast of wind.
• An algebraic structure similar to a ring, but without the requirement that every element have an additive inverse.

Verb

• To fit out with a harness or other equipment.
• To dress or clothe in some costume.
• To make or construct something in haste or in a makeshift manner.
• To manipulate something dishonestly for personal gain or discriminatory purposes.
• To make free with; hence, to steal; to pilfer.
• To outfit a model with controls for animation.
• To play the wanton; to act in an unbecoming manner; to play tricks.

Related

Similar words

• semiring

Origin

• From Early Modern English rygge, probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Norwegian rigge ("to bind up; wrap around; rig; equip"), Swedish dialectal rigga, Faroese rigga. Possibly from Proto-Germanic *rik- ("to bind"), from Proto-Indo-European *rign-, *reyg-; or related to Old English *wrīhan, wrīohan, wrēohan, wrēon. See also wry.
• See ridge.
• Compare wriggle.
• From ring, omitting the letter n to suggest the lack of negatives. Compare structure like a ring but lacking a multiplicative identity.