(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.
Turnout
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The publicity surrounding the Rotherham child exploitation scandal, which triggered the resignation of Shaun Wright, the previous PCC, did not translate into a high turnout, with only 14.65% of the electorate casting a vote.
(2) The same is also true of both local votes and byelections – and the electoral dynamics and relative turnout of these races is very different from a general election.
(3) Given this bipartisan strategy to minimise commitments, there is little wonder that voter turnout also reached a historical low, with less than two thirds bothering to vote in the east.
(4) The turnout was 34% – about half of that for a general election.
(5) Even if nobody switched party, the general election result would look very different to what’s predicted if millennials could be persuaded to vote at the same rate as pensioners, as polls factor in turnout differences and oversample the elderly accordingly.
(6) On a turnout of 50.78%, Labour's shellshocked candidate Imran Hussain was crushed by a 36.59% swing from Labour to Respect that saw Galloway take the seat with a majority of 10,140.
(7) In the end, turnout on Thursday was a respectable 40.26%, with 7,115 of the 27,791 ballots cast via postal votes.
(8) No study until now has examined the impact of the physical and psychological condition on voter turnout among elderly African Americans and Caucasians.
(9) He also flags up that there is reportedly a high turnout across the country from Greece's school teachers for today's strike.
(10) Every classical dancer aims to achieve perfect turnout.
(11) I like that these guys have zero tolerance for corruption and want more transparency.” Support for Podemos was quite high in Chipiona, she said, a fact obscured by the event’s low turnout.
(12) Far below such low turnout elections as the 2012 Manchester Central byelection (18.2%) or the 1999 European elections (24%).
(13) Some Pegida supporters, however, expressed disappointment at the size of the turnout.
(14) With fewer than 50,000 votes separating the two candidates, turnout appears to have been key.
(15) If the statistic remains unchanged, it will mean an even lower turnout than the 12% who cast a vote to elect the previous commissioner two years ago.
(16) Although the Acpo statement today was more measured, its president, Sir Hugh Orde, has warned in recent months that low turnouts would risk returning BNP candidates and even "lunatics" as police commissioners.
(17) According to officials, the turnout was a respectable 38.6% – higher than the 33% who voted in a referendum during Morsi's tenure, but lower than the 41.9% who turned out in a similar poll following Egypt's 2011 uprising.
(18) 'This was a protest vote': Sicilian city where 75% said no to Matteo Renzi Read more While most analysts do not think February is realistic timing, the statement nevertheless indicated that Renzi sees a path to defeating the Five Star Movement (M5S) and the Northern League, even after 60% of Italians rejected the prime minister in a high-turnout referendum on constitutional changes.
(19) At the time of spring turnout, a bolus was administered to each calf or yearling in the treated group.
(20) It is worth noting that last year the average voter turnout for FTSE 100 companies was just 62%, so getting close to 90% is an incredible – but in this case necessary – achievement.