rig – English noun declension

English noun forms of rig

Noun: rig
Singularrig
Pluralrigs

Sample Sentences

  • The climbers each had a different rig for climbing that particular rockface.
  • We used a ground-level rig to safely learn how to tile a gable roof.
  • Every rig at the truckstop had custom-made mud-flaps.
  • "Big Joe's the name," an' I told him mine / He said: "The name of my rig is Phantom 309." [1967, Tommy Faile, “Phantom 309”, performed by Red Sovine:]
  • 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. [1975, “Convoy”, in C.W. McCall, Chip Davis (lyrics), Black Bear Road, performed by C. W. McCall:]
  • My sister and I always made our own rigs for Halloween.
  • 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. [2004, Radford Castro, Let Me Play: Stories of Gaming and Emulation, page 104:]
  • […] 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. [1995, Reyes Ramos, An Ethnographic Study of Heroin Abuse by Mexican Americans in San Antonio, Texas, page 36:]
  • (Gregg later admitted Cher's inadvertent discovery of his “rig” [drug bag] complete with heroin, needles, and rubber bands, hastened their breakup.) [2014, Josiah Howard, Cher: Strong Enough:]
  • 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. [2002 September 20, Steph Greenberg, “Re: CG Mickey Test”, in rec.arts.animation (Usenet), message-ID :]
  • 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. [2012, Verónica Orvalho, Pedro Bastos, Frederic Parke, Bruno Oliveira, Xenxo Alvarez, “A Facial Rigging Survey: State of the Art Report”, in EUROGRAPHICS:]

Etymology

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”).

Verbs referencing "rig"

Danish Nouns rig, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns rigg, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns rigg, Finnish Nouns rigi.