(n.) A top or whirligig; any little thing that is whirled round in play.
(n.) A light carriage, with one pair of wheels, drawn by one horse; a kind of chaise.
(n.) A long, light rowboat, generally clinkerbuilt, and designed to be fast; a boat appropriated to the use of the commanding officer; as, the captain's gig.
(n.) A rotatory cylinder, covered with wire teeth or teasels, for teaseling woolen cloth.
Example Sentences:
(1) I first saw them live at the location of the terror attack, Manchester Arena – then the MEN – aged 15, a teen at a gig with my friends, as many of the Grande’s fans were.
(2) The next day on his blog he called the job "the Holy Grail of animation gigs".
(3) Matthew Taylor was appointed by Theresa May last October to review employment practices in the light of concerns about the precarious nature of work, particularly in the gig economy.
(4) I'm sure Evan wouldn't mind me saying that he makes no secret of an occasional discomfort about conventional chord-change playing in jazz, and tends to sit out occasions where it's required, as he did last year in London on a gig in which the pianist Django Bates was reworking Charlie Parker tunes.
(5) Riccardo Vastola, 28, studied marketing and communications but founded a music business in 2009, organising indie rock gigs, events, club nights in and around Bologna.
(6) You know, I don't mean to be unkind but I think you should put your phone down because you're just being a dick, really, just enjoy the gig because it's a better … it's a dick job, filming the show.
(7) The arts and social space in Deptford opened in 2015 after three years of fundraising and it now runs a programme of gigs, screenings, talks and performances, as well as being home to Tome Records, which has a distractingly good selection of vinyl, as well as tapes and zines.
(8) [When he comes to a gig] it’s like a mate at school turning up.” Watson’s record of campaigns against phone hacking and establishment child abuse have also won him cross-party admiration and a public profile as a righteous crusader.
(9) In 2004, fewer than 100,000 tickets were sold for arena standup gigs.
(10) That was one of the advantages of having a gay "uncle" – he took me to gigs.
(11) And if you're really funny, then provided you're not punching people when you come off, or stealing people's belongings, then you'll get a gig.
(12) Calling London … Prince and 3RDEYEGIRL at Shepherd's Bush Empire Fresh from his Valentine's night double-header of shows at King's Place, beneath the Guardian's offices in north London, Prince has announced his Sunday night appearance at Koko in Camden Town will take the form of three separate gigs.
(13) The boys have just done eight gigs in nine nights and they're knackered.
(14) Their lives are all different: they are creating and organising challenging contemporary art, others setting up literary resources, working as DJs and educators, re-entering education or still progressing in karate at age 43, organising gigs and working in the professions.
(15) White is doing his own bit to turn back the clock: at his gigs, he enforces a strict ban on the audience shooting pictures or video; at home, he only allows his children – Scarlett, eight, and Hank, six – to play with mechanical toys.
(16) He didn't even mind the National Front turning up and sieg-heiling during gigs, which seems enormously sporting of him, given his raft of horrifying stories about experiencing racism in 60s and 70s Britain, and the scars he still bears as the result of a racially motivated 1980 knife attack.
(17) These data suggest that GAMD is very efficient at priming T cells specific for GIg epitopes and that once primed they can be readily re-triggered by GIg.
(18) Earlier this year, the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said that while the on-demand, gig economy is creating innovations, it is also “raising hard questions about workplace protections and what a good job will look like in the future”.
(19) In London there are generally four types of rock show: the billions of pub gigs where 20 of the band's mates try to convince you there's still a future in grindie; the arena and stadium blowouts where it's customary to express one's appreciation of the band by dousing one's peers in airborne urine; the east London artronica happenings where everyone's only watching everyone else; and the gigs in Hyde Park you can't hear.
(20) She booked a well-paying gig as a Fox News pundit, wrote two bestselling books and starred in her own reality show, Sarah Palin’s Alaska, on TLC.
Vig
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) As a social worker I think that Vig has developed my skills in communication and reflective practice as well as developing my confidence.
(2) Previously it was shown that macrophages (M phi) isolated from the vigorous (Vig) or modulated (Mod) liver granulomas (Gr) of Schistosoma mansoni-infected mice restored mitogen and parasite egg antigen-induced proliferative responses to accessory cell-depleted lymphocytes.
(3) Open Mon-Fri for lunch and dinner, closes Mon-Thurs 10pm, Fri-Sat 11pm The Vig (Arcadia) Further east, Camelback Road edges the Arcadia neighbourhood, where thirtysomethings have been busy rehabbing houses on 1950s and 1960s developments and transforming them into retro-cool mid-century digs.
(4) I immediately began to see the benefits to families through using Vig, which requires practitioners to undertake 18 months of supervised practice to reach accreditation.
(5) Only few of the tested compounds (IIIg), (IIIh), (IVf), (IVh), (Vg), (Vh), (VIg) showed a fairly good activity against P. irregulare, whereas no compounds exhibited any activity in the in vivo tests (in the preventive phase).
(6) On the contrary, suppression on intra-uterine life may be considered as legal within the framework of the law on VIG (voluntary interruption of pregnancy), as no date-limit is provided for therapeutic interruption of pregnancy.
(7) Post-vaccinial encephalitis, while frequently serious, has not been shown to be ameliorated by VIG therapy, although there are data which suggest VIG has some value in prophylaxis for encephalitis.
(8) Although freshly isolated Vig or ModGrM phi contained preformed SF and PRF, in vitro production of the factors were depressed by protein synthesis inhibitors.
(9) There are now VIG supervisors in most cities across the UK.
(10) From January to September 1987, 271 cases of VIG before the 90th day of amenorrhea, 2 cases of VIG after the 90th day of amenorrhea, and 3 cases of intrauterine fetal death were operated at Vercelli Midwifery School.
(11) The Monastery: Mr Vig and the Nun An award-winning film about a millionaire who wants to establish a Russian Orthodox religious order in his castle.
(12) Vaccinia hyperimmune globulin (VIG) in prophylactic dosage may be given to a pregnant woman who is traveling to a smallpox infected or endemic area in order to prevent fetal vaccinia.
(13) The samples also were assayed with the soybean mitotic crossing-over assay [Vig, 1975].
(14) One of these ways was through video interaction guidance (Vig) , which can support parents to have better, more attuned relationships with their children and in their other relationships in the family.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Outgoing CEO Jørgen Vig Knudstorp Thomas Kirk Kristiansen, great grandson of Lego’s founder, will become deputy chair of the new brand group.
(16) Other Vig practitioners who have also been involved in research studies have seen clear results from practice-based research.
(17) These chromosomes, unlike multicentrics in mouse (Vig and Zinkowski 1986) do not show premature centromere separation.
(18) Compounds (VIIa) and (VIIe) were selectively deacetylated yielding (VIIb) and (VIId); these were then oxidized and hydrolyzed to convert them into (VIf) and (VIg).
(19) Recent research by Dr Maria Doria highlights the following elements as being important in the process of Vig to bringing about change: • Self-reflection.
(20) Freshly isolated Vig or ModGrM phi contained preformed LAF, although its in vitro production was depressed by protein synthesis inhibitors.