What's the difference between rig and shroud?

Rig


Definition:

  • (n.) A ridge.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with apparatus or gear; to fit with tackling.
  • (v. t.) To dress; to equip; to clothe, especially in an odd or fanciful manner; -- commonly followed by out.
  • (n.) The peculiar fitting in shape, number, and arrangement of sails and masts, by which different types of vessels are distinguished; as, schooner rig, ship rig, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.
  • (n.) Dress; esp., odd or fanciful clothing.
  • (n.) A romp; a wanton; one given to unbecoming conduct.
  • (n.) A sportive or unbecoming trick; a frolic.
  • (n.) A blast of wind.
  • (v. i.) To play the wanton; to act in an unbecoming manner; to play tricks.
  • (v. t.) To make free with; hence, to steal; to pilfer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A single repeatedly reactive cDNA clone was identified, by screening with CSF antibody, sequenced, and found to be the human homologue of the rat insulinoma gene, rig.
  • (2) The UK, France and Germany have been accused of hypocrisy for lobbying behind the scenes to keep outmoded car tests for carbon emissions, but later publicly calling for a European investigation into Volkswagen’s rigging of car air pollution tests .
  • (3) After four hours Dughan sent out a team, joined them when the rig did not respond.
  • (4) Of course the elections will not be rigged,” he told reporters recently.
  • (5) In an emergency, the devices use multiple mechanisms – including clamps and shears – to try to choke off the oil flowing up from a pipe and disconnect the rig from the well.
  • (6) It is one of six banks involved in talks with the Financial Conduct Authority over alleged rigging in currency markets and Ross McEwan, marking a year as RBS boss, also pointed to a string of other risks in a third quarter trading update.
  • (7) The Republican nominee also complained about what he saw as a rigged debate and insisted that he had actually bested Hillary Clinton on Monday night .
  • (8) Crisis engulfs Gabon hospital founded to atone for colonial crimes Read more At least seven people died and more than 1,000 were arrested in violent protests following the announcement of the election result earlier this month, which the leader of the opposition, Jean Ping, said Bongo, the incumbent, had rigged.
  • (9) It cannot be established whether or not seasickness contributed to the cause of death in the case of the Ocean Ranger victims, but it did occur in 75% or more of TEMPSC occupants in the other four rig disasters.
  • (10) At 2 years 95% of the resectable, 36% of the traditional nonresectable, and 53% of RIGS nonresectable patients survived.
  • (11) Between them the British and the Dutch have more than two-thirds of the offshore rigs.
  • (12) They said US forces had found a "daisy chain"– a long bomb rigged up from mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and a motorbike.
  • (13) Walker said he spent five to six a days a week chairing Barclays, after being recruited to chair the bank in the wake of the 2012 Libor-rigging scandal.
  • (14) According to unedited training videos seen by Sky News captured from an Isis trainer by the remnants of the Free Syrian Army, an research and development team may have produced fully working remote-controlled cars to act as mobile bombs, which they have fitted with mannequins rigged to give off heat to suggest they are human and so to evade bomb-scanning machines.
  • (15) The emissions-rigging scandal, which is being talked about as a corporate failure on the scale of Enron or WorldCom, extends beyond the CEO.
  • (16) Republicans were supposed to learn from Mitt Romney but I don’t think they did.” Allegations of rigging were widespread, even though a vote has not yet been cast, but few were willing to predict what kind of backlash there would be.
  • (17) A ccents from every state in the union can be heard as workers pour off the train each day in Williston, North Dakota, ready to try their luck as the welders, truck drivers, plumbers, oil rig roughnecks, frackers, water carriers and road crews required to support the booming fracking industry – but also as plumbers, lawyers, cooks, accountants and everything else it takes to build a rapidly burgeoning city.
  • (18) The debate about the future ownership of Royal Bank of Scotland was kickstarted on Wednesday just hours before the bank was slapped with a fine for rigging Libor.
  • (19) German prosecutors have launched an investigation into the former chief executive of Volkswagen as a result of the diesel emissions-rigging scandal .
  • (20) Extra supplies are also looming from the US, where stockpiles are growing as extra drilling rigs are put into operation.

Shroud


Definition:

  • (n.) That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
  • (n.) Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
  • (n.) That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
  • (n.) A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
  • (n.) The branching top of a tree; foliage.
  • (n.) A set of ropes serving as stays to support the masts. The lower shrouds are secured to the sides of vessels by heavy iron bolts and are passed around the head of the lower masts.
  • (n.) One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
  • (n.) To cover with a shroud; especially, to inclose in a winding sheet; to dress for the grave.
  • (n.) To cover, as with a shroud; to protect completely; to cover so as to conceal; to hide; to veil.
  • (v. i.) To take shelter or harbor.
  • (v. t.) To lop. See Shrood.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The underlying pathology was shrouded by incomplete abortion.
  • (2) It introduces a welcome trenchancy into subjects often shrouded in misty rhetoric.
  • (3) At recent climate change conferences, a coffin has been paraded through the halls of delegates covered in a shroud and attended by mourners.
  • (4) Its lines soften, its edges fade; it shrinks into the raw cold from the river, more like a shrouded mountain than a castle built for kings.
  • (5) Two of them begged for a rescue mission in phone calls yesterday, as the battles raged through a powerful sandstorm that shrouded the city from journalists and anxious refugees who have been watching the fighting from the safety of Turkish soil, just a few hundred feet away.
  • (6) The same intrepid, almost naive, fascination with a world shrouded in the icy fog of snobbery, deference, and class-consciousness animated Sampson.
  • (7) Tehran, surrounded by mountains and with millions of cars on its congested streets, has long been regarded as one of the world's most polluted cities, but the heavy smog that has recently shrouded its streets has been described as the worst in its history.
  • (8) "But the fact is that the whereabouts and fate of Gao have been shrouded in mystery by the Chinese government for far too long.
  • (9) Monarchy, of whatever stamp, shrouds society in class, when we can least afford it.
  • (10) See the bullet holes in street lamps... the shrouded vision in the clouds and the fog of the buildings from which the shots came... the photographs of those who lost their lives.. the people who put themselves on the line for the future of Ukraine.” Kerry said he spoke spontaneously with Ukrainians gathered there, who pleaded with him not to go back to life as it was under Yanukovych.
  • (11) We hope that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice will finally decide to comply with the law, and cease attempting to shroud in secrecy one aspect of their job that, above all others, should be conducted in the light of day."
  • (12) It sits amid north Glasgow’s famous Red Road tower blocks, shrouded and still awaiting demolition since organisers had second thoughts about blowing them up to mark the Commonwealth Games.
  • (13) Prolonged exposures of fracture faces under the protection of liquid nitrogen-cooled shrouds have shown that, because of the consequent drastic reduction of condensable gases in the specimen area, no detectable condensation contamination of exposed fracture faces occurs within 15 min at a specimen temperature of 108 degrees K. This shows that a complicated ultrahigh vacuum technology is not required for high resolution freeze- etching.
  • (14) How many other "invisible" stories are out there, shrouded by thick legal mist?
  • (15) As usual, the government applied the OSB media strategy to shroud the matters in secrecy.
  • (16) "Those are dead people in front of our house and the smell is awful," called out a woman from the balcony, her face shrouded in cloth to protect her from the stench.
  • (17) If this is how it behaves in the middle of one of Australia’s biggest cities, how does it conduct itself when shrouded behind the secrecy of “on water operations”?
  • (18) On these days, the smog clings to the city like a thick grey shroud, and its residents are ghost-like shadows moving through the haze.
  • (19) Consider an example from June of last year, when rampant fires across parts of Sumatra, Indonesia, shrouded the skies of Sumatra and neighbouring Singapore and Malaysia in a thick, choking haze.
  • (20) What happened next has always been shrouded in mystery.

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