(n.) A light, humorous piece of writing, esp. in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad.
(n.) A piece of sport; a trick; a prank.
(n.) A trolling bait, consisting of a bright spoon and a hook attached.
(n.) A small machine or handy tool
(n.) A contrivance fastened to or inclosing a piece of work, and having hard steel surfaces to guide a tool, as a drill, or to form a shield or templet to work to, as in filing.
(n.) An apparatus or a machine for jigging ore.
(v. t.) To sing to the tune of a jig.
(v. t.) To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.
(v. t.) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve. See Jigging, n.
(n.) To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.
(v. i.) To dance a jig; to skip about.
Example Sentences:
(1) If Del Bosque really want to win this World Cup thingymebob, then he has got to tell Iker Casillas that the jig is up, correct?
(2) Between members of different teams however, only the finger breadth method attained reliabilities above .7, and the plexiglass jig, in particular, showed very low reliability.
(3) A new jig simulating the abdominal cavity and wall is described.
(4) The stain pattern on the stem was analysed in a 3-point-bending jig and also after cementing it into cadaver femurs.
(5) Dipnets and jigs inflicted minimal trauma and were preferred for squid capture.
(6) Once the jig is in position, the patient is asked to produce left and right lateral movements until muscular relaxation is obtained.
(7) We developed some instruments to resolve these problems; i.e., scopes with a large diameter for high resolution, a triangulation instrument for multiple cannulations, a needle set-up jig for disk traction suture, a step cannulation system and a two-channel cannula for operating in the narrow lower joint space and a fixing jig for cannulas in the upper and lower joint space to observe the same portion of the discal tissue from both joint space during disk suturing.
(8) When, in 1996, the Globe theatre in London first experimented with doing it Shakespeare’s way, the scholars and theatre folk encountered the jig problem.
(9) This study used a special jig system, photography, and a sonic digitizer to evaluate the change in canal size and location after retreatment in 20 teeth with small or large curved canals (greater than 23 degrees).
(10) The kinetics of neural uptake and efflux of lidocaine hydrochloride were studies by means of a standardized technique for blocking the intraorbital nerve of the rat, using a palatal jig.
(11) Thermostatic regulation of tissue temperature is provided by on-off control of the average power supplied independently to each heating jig.
(12) It is recommended that the clearance of the hole in the support jig is at least 0.7 mm and that push-out results are only compared with each other when materials with similar Young's modulus are concerned.
(13) The ads have featured a miniature Miliband in Salmond’s jacket pocket and, in one animated film, the Labour leader dancing to a Scottish jig played by Salmond on a recorder.
(14) When a mechanical checkout jig was set up at the same point, a discrepancy of 4 mm resulted when the gantry was moved from 0 degrees to 180 degrees.
(15) The Herbert screw is useful in treating displaced capitellar fractures since the jig maintains the reduction and the screw, compressing the fracture site, is buried beneath the articular cartilage and does not have to be removed.
(16) If you want sustainable supply chains, you have to re-jig how you think.
(17) A two-part German-South African co-production based on the bestselling Kate Mosse novel, it's a window-rattling potboiler bubbling with ancient religious conspiracies, comely medieval wenches, comely 21st-century academics, fogbanks of swirly past-times skulduggery, evil pharmaceutical CEOs in 10 denier tights, priapic chevaliers and, verily, a script that does dance a merry jig upon the very phizog of credibility.
(18) A central distractor, attached to the jig, positions and aligns the knee at 0 degrees or 90 degrees.
(19) A pilot drill with a built-in stop to prevent overpenetration is used first and then the screw can be inserted with jig, or it may be inserted manually if the osteotomy is stablized temporarily with a Kirschner wire.
(20) Single-limb-stance loads and combined axial and torsional loads were applied to the implanted femoral prostheses with the use of a jig that simulated acetabular and trochanteric loading.
Wig
Definition:
(n.) A covering for the head, consisting of hair interwoven or united by a kind of network, either in imitation of the natural growth, or in abundant and flowing curls, worn to supply a deficiency of natural hair, or for ornament, or according to traditional usage, as a part of an official or professional dress, the latter especially in England by judges and barristers.
(n.) An old seal; -- so called by fishermen.
(v. t.) To censure or rebuke; to hold up to reprobation; to scold.
(n.) A kind of raised seedcake.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effect of scalp hypothermia in connection with chemotherapy was evaluated as hair protection in 61 women with disseminated breast carcinoma, where earlier treatment routines had caused wig-requiring alopecia in nearly all patients.
(2) Which sounds fun, but not when you’re in fourth grade, doing homework Facebook Twitter Pinterest With his mother, wearing her chemotherapy wig, in New York, 1997.
(3) So, in The Devil Wears Prada , the ferocious magazine chief played by Meryl Streep is beset by secret misery: unfaithful husband, tricky kids, wig issues.
(4) Sitting opposite her as she eats croissants and fixes on espresso it is hard to equate the immaculate perfection of Guillem the performer, in bobbed wig and suspenders last night, with the awkwardly engaging and somewhat bed-headed Guillem in skinny jeans and T-shirt this morning.
(5) Police said they found wigs, glasses and other disguises in his room.
(6) British spies don wigs and makeup to testify at US trial of al-Qaida suspect Read more Abid Naseer was first arrested in 2009 in Britain on charges that he was part of a terror cell plotting to blow up a shopping mall in Manchester, England.
(7) One turns up for bums, rampant historical misrepresentation and a man in a wig roaring "spiritus sanctus" in a 13th-century CGI inferno.
(8) I was reflecting on Trump’s momentum partly because he went from a reality TV wig-joke, to an outspoken liar, to a Republican candidate who didn’t stand a chance of getting the nomination, to a Republican nominee who didn’t stand a chance of winning the election, to the winner of the election who doesn’t stand a chance of destroying the world.
(9) It is tempting to think of Sherman’s own face in among them as a 13th wig stand.
(10) "It's mainly about big government contracts, for the big wigs," he said.
(11) At least I think they're wigs – her hair changes colour and style quite often.
(12) Over the last eight days the ersatz wig has tumbled from his head.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Elizabeth Banks parodies Donald Trump’s entrance at DNC “Some of you know me from The Hunger Games, in which I play Effie Trinket – a cruel, out-of-touch reality TV star who wears insane wigs while delivering long-winded speeches to a violent dystopia,” she said.
(14) In his most famous self-image , as he sits, ill and emaciated, holding a cane with a carved skull, he is doing more than acknowledge mortality: he is claiming to be the new King Death, inheriting the title Andy Warhol whose fragile head he portrayed with a transcendental clarity, in a portrait so real you feel you could reach into it and hold it, stroke the silver wig.
(15) The resulting theatre work revolves around an attempt, also entirely true, by a Quebecois filmmaker called Yves Simoneau to make a movie about the murder, in which the script's homicidal leading character disguises himself with false eyebrows and a wig.
(16) Kearns, 26, performs his eccentric show in a monk's tonsure wig and Dick Emery-style protruding false teeth.
(17) Whether witnessed close-up, as in Mitchell's case, or from afar, in the exaltation of Sir Ranulph as he escorts his wig to the Antarctic, a narrow model of male prowess is actively damaging huge numbers of non-dominant, powerless or jobless men, who struggle, the charity explains, when they are unable to meet expectations.
(18) Sure, movies should be fun and a great deal of the fun – indeed, I would go so far as to say the primary fun – of American Hustle lies in the fact that it resembles, in Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's spot-on description, "an explosion in a wig factory".
(19) Excellent aesthetic results were obtained with the use of a wig.
(20) Many actors merely go on the principle of "being their age" and trusting to a wig.