Definitions for rig

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IPA: /rɪg/

Rig is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 11 anagrams from letters in rig (gir).

Definitions for rig

noun

1. the arrangement of the masts, spars, sails, etc., on a boat or ship.
2. apparatus for some purpose; equipment; outfit; gear:
3. Also called drill rig. the equipment used in drilling an oil well.
4. any combination trucking unit in which vehicles are hooked together, as a tractor-trailer.
5. any kind of truck.
6. a carriage, buckboard, sulky, or wagon together with the horse or horses that draw it.
7. Informal. costume or dress, especially when odd or conspicuous, or when designated for a particular purpose:

Verb phrases

1. rig down, Nautical. to place in an inactive state, stowing all lines, tackles, and other removable parts.
2. rig up, to equip or set up for use.

verb (used with object)

1. Chiefly Nautical. to put in proper order for working or use. to fit (a ship, mast, etc.) with the necessary shrouds, stays, etc. to fit (shrouds, stays, sails, etc.) to the mast, yard, or the like.
2. to furnish or provide with equipment, clothing, etc.; fit (usually followed by out or up).
3. to assemble, install, or prepare (often followed by up).
4. to manipulate fraudulently:

Origin of rig

1480-90; 1930-35 for def 4; probably Scandinavian; compare Norwegian, Swedish rigg (noun), rigga (v.)

Examples for rig

You do that to a certain extent with performance capture by the way you calibrate the model of Caesar—or the rig, as we call it.

When Colin bit, they had control of it and the rig shot fake blood out of a tube.

Blue Book on this rig is about $750,000, and we got it for nothing.

I can rig up a handy horse-stall with my spare spars and the grating.

Why, it's a mad thing you are doing, coming to meet me in that rig out!

It is the mark of a desperate party trying to rig the election results to stay in power for as long as it can.

Even as he was speaking they had helped Mortimer from the rig.

But, as you need him, I suppose I must get my rig and driver somewhere else.

"I'll send the rig in, t'morrow, if there's anything yuh want," he remarked.

In 1971, a team of Soviet scientists was drilling at the site when their rig collapsed into a cavernous pocket of natural gas.