different between rig vs habiliments

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?g, IPA^(key): /???/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

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”). Possibly from Proto-Germanic *rik- (“to bind”), from Proto-Indo-European *rign-, *reyg- (“to bind”); or related to Old English *wr?han, wr?ohan, wr?ohan, wr?on (“to bind; wrap up; cover”). See also wry (“to cover; clothe; dress; hide”).

Noun

rig (plural rigs)

1. (nautical) The rigging of a sailing ship or other such craft.
2. Special equipment or gear used for a particular purpose.

3. (US) A large truck such as a semi-tractor.

4. The special apparatus used for drilling wells.
5. (informal) A costume or an outfit.

6. (slang, computing) A computer case, often modified for looks.
   • 2004, Radford Castro, Let Me Play: Stories of Gaming and Emulation (page 104)

     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.

7. An imperfectly castrated horse, sheep etc.
8. (slang) Radio equipment, especially a citizen's band transceiver.
9. (animation) A model outfitted with parameterized controls for animation.

Translations

Verb

rig (third-person singular simple present rigs, present participle rigging, simple past and past participle rigged)

1. (transitive) To fit out with a harness or other equipment.
   1. (transitive, nautical) To equip and fit (a ship) with sails, shrouds, and yards.
   2. (transitive, manufacturing) To move (a heavy object) with the help of slings, hoists, block and tackle, levers, or similar equipment.

2. (transitive, informal) To dress or clothe in some costume.
3. (transitive) To make or construct something in haste or in a makeshift manner.

4. (transitive) To manipulate something dishonestly for personal gain or discriminatory purposes.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To make free with; hence, to steal; to pilfer.
6. (transitive, intransitive, animation) To outfit a model with controls for animation.

Translations

Etymology 2

See ridge.

Noun

rig (plural rigs)

1. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) A ridge.

Etymology 3

Compare wriggle.

Noun

rig (plural rigs)

1. (obsolete) A wanton; one given to unbecoming conduct.
   • 1650, Thomas Fuller, A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine

     Let none condemn them for rigs, because thus hoiting with boys, seeing the simplicity of their age was a patent to privilege any innocent pastime, and few more years will make them blush themselves into better manners

2. A promiscuous woman.
   • 1936: Like the Phoenix by Anthony Bertram

     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.

3. (obsolete) A sportive or unbecoming trick; a frolic.
   • 1782, William Cowper, The Diverting History of John Gilpin

     He little dreamt when he set out / Of running such a rig.

4. (obsolete) A blast of wind.
   • 1796, Edmund Burke, Letters on a Regicide Peace

     that uncertain season before the rigs of old Michaelmas were yet well composed.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Wright to this entry?)

Verb

rig (third-person singular simple present rigs, present participle rigging, simple past and past participle rigged)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) 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.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:harlotize

Etymology 4

From ring (“algebraic structure”), omitting the letter n to suggest the lack of negatives. Compare structure like a ring but lacking a multiplicative identity.

Noun

rig (plural rigs)

1. (algebra, ring theory) An algebraic structure similar to a ring, but without the requirement that every element have an additive inverse.
   • 2004, ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 39, ACM Press, page 81,

     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.

Synonyms

• (algebraic structure like a ring but without additive inverses): semiring

Anagrams

• G.R.I., GRI, IrG

Albanian

Etymology

From Greek ????? (rígas), cognate with the also borrowed Romanian rig?. Ultimately from Latin rex, thus forming a doublet of regj.

Noun

rig m (indefinite plural riga)

1. (rare, card games) king in a pack of playing cards

   Synonyms: mbret, kerr

Derived terms

• rigash

Related terms

• regj

References

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse ríkr (“rich”), from Proto-Germanic *r?kijaz, a derivative of *r?ks (“king, ruler”), itself a borrowing from Proto-Celtic *r?xs, from Proto-Indo-European *h?r??s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??i?]
• Rhymes: -i??

Adjective

rig (neuter rigt, plural and definite singular attributive rige, comparative rigere, superlative (predicative) rigest, superlative (attributive) rigeste)

1. rich (having wealth), wealthy, affluent
2. exuberant, luxuriant

Inflection

Etymology 2

From English rig

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?????]
• Rhymes: -e?

Noun

rig c (singular definite riggen, plural indefinite rigge)

1. rig (the arrangement of masts etc., the special apparatus used for drilling oil wells)

Inflection

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?????]

Verb

rig

1. imperative of rigge

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r??i?/

Verb

·rig

1. first-person singular future conjunct of téit

Mutation

English

Noun

habiliments

1. plural of habiliment