rig

• enPR: rĭg, IPA^(key): /ɹɪɡ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪɡ

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”), Faroese rigga (“to rig; to equip and fit; to make s.th. function”). Possibly from Proto-Germanic *rik- (“to bind”), from Proto-Indo-European *rign-, *reyg- (“to bind”); or related to Old English *wrīhan, wrīohan, wrēohan, wrēon (“to bind; wrap up; cover”). See also wry (“to cover; clothe; dress; hide”).

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.

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

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

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

   • 1967, Tommy Faile (lyrics and music), “Phantom 309”, performed by Red Sovine:

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

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

     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.

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

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

6. (slang, computing) A personal computer, typically one 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. (slang) Equipment used for taking recreational drugs.
   • 1995, Reyes Ramos, An Ethnographic Study of Heroin Abuse by Mexican Americans in San Antonio, Texas, page 36:

     […] 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.

   • 2014, Josiah Howard, Cher: Strong Enough:

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

10. (animation) A model outfitted with parameterized controls for animation.
    • 2002 September 20, Steph Greenberg, “Re: CG Mickey Test”, in rec.arts.animation‎ (Usenet), message-ID <Xns928EB617492BStephG@130.133.1.4>:

      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.

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

      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.

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.

      To rig such massive equipment requires experienced riggers

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

   rig up a makeshift shelter

4. (transitive) To manipulate something dishonestly for personal gain or discriminatory purposes.

   to rig an election

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

     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.

5. (transitive, obsolete) To make free with; hence, to steal; to pilfer.
   • 1557 February 13, Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie., London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:

     Sir Hew is a rigging thy gate or the plow

6. (transitive, intransitive, animation) To outfit a model with controls for animation.
   • 2012, Verónica Orvalho, Pedro Bastos, Frederic Parke, Bruno Oliveira, Xenxo Alvarez, “A Facial Rigging Survey: State of the Art Report”, in EUROGRAPHICS‎:

     We can think of rigging a 3D character as a process analogous to setting up the strings that control a puppet.

• rig out

See ridge.

rig (plural rigs)

1. (Northern England, Scotland, dialect) A ridge.

Compare wriggle.

rig (plural rigs)

1. (obsolete) A wanton; one given to unbecoming conduct.
   • 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:

     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.

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

     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, […]”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson;  […], published 1785, →OCLC, page 349:

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

4. (obsolete) A blast of wind.
   • 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:

     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.

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.

• See Thesaurus:harlotize

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

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.

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

• G.R.I., GRI, IrG

From Greek ρήγας (rígas),[1] cognate with the also borrowed Romanian rigă. Ultimately from Latin rex, thus forming a doublet of regj.

rig m (plural riga)

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

   Synonyms: mbret, kerr

• rigash[2]

• regj

From Old Norse ríkr (“rich”), from Proto-Germanic *rīkijaz, a derivative of *rīks (“king, ruler”), itself a borrowing from Proto-Celtic *rīxs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs.

• IPA^(key): [ˈʁiˀ]
• Rhymes: -iːˀ

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

From English rig.

• IPA^(key): [ˈʁɛɡ̊]
• Rhymes: -eɡ

rig c (singular definite riggen, plural indefinite rigge)

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): [ˈʁɛɡ̊]

rig

1. imperative of rigge

• IPA^(key): /ˈr͈ʲiɣ/

·rig

1. first-person singular future conjunct of téit