different between rigging vs catamaran

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??????/
• Rhymes: -????

Etymology 1

From Middle English riggyng, ryggyng, riggynge, equivalent to rig +? -ing.

Noun

rigging (countable and uncountable, plural riggings)

1. Dress; tackle; especially (nautical), the ropes, chains, etc., that support the masts and spars of a sailing vessel, and serve as purchases for adjusting the sails, etc.
2. Similar supporting material used for construction work, or in film, theater, etc.

Hyponyms

• (tackle of a sailing vessel): running rigging, standing rigging

Meronyms

• (tackle of a sailing vessel): See Thesaurus:rigging

Derived terms

• election-rigging

Translations

Etymology 2

From rig +? -ing.

Verb

rigging

1. present participle of rig

English

Etymology

From Tamil ????? (ka??u, “to tie”) + ???? (maram, “tree, wood”).

Pronunciation

• (Canada, US) IPA^(key): /?kæ.t?.m???æn/, /?kæ.t?.m???æn/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kæ.t?.m???æn/, /?kæ.t?.m???æn/

Noun

catamaran (plural catamarans)

1. A twin-hulled ship or boat.
2. (colloquial, rare, obsolete) A quarrelsome woman; a scold.
3. (obsolete) A raft of three pieces of wood lashed together, the middle piece being longer than the others, and serving as a keel on which the rower squats while paddling.
   • 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 90:

     Three or four strange-looking things now came close to our boat, which I understood were called ‘catamarans’, consisting of nothing more than two or three large trees, the trunk part only strongly lashed together, upon which sat two men nearly in a state of nature […] .

4. (obsolete) An old kind of fireship.

Synonyms

• (twin-hulled ship or boat): twinhull

Hypernyms

• (twin-hulled ship or boat): multihull

Hyponyms

• (twin-hulled ship or boat): AC45, AC72

Coordinate terms

• monohull
• outrigger canoe

Derived terms

• cat (diminutive)

Related terms

• trimaran

Translations

French

Etymology

From Tamil ????? (ka??u, “to tie”) + ???? (maram, “tree, wood”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ta.ma.???/
• Homophone: catamarans

Noun

catamaran m (plural catamarans)

1. catamaran, a twin-hulled ship or boat

Further reading

• “catamaran” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English catamaran, from Tamil.

Noun

catamaran m (plural catamarans)

1. (Jersey) catamaran

Romanian

Etymology

From French catamaran

Noun

catamaran n (plural catamarane)

1. catamaran

Declension