(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.
Tyre
Definition:
() Curdled milk.
(n. & v.) Attire. See 2d and 3d Tire.
(v. i.) To prey. See 4th Tire.
Example Sentences:
(1) Aedes aegypti and Toxorhynchites splendens were found only in discarded tyres.
(2) Protesters set fire to rubbish bins and tyres, creating pillars of black smoke among the apartment blocks and office buildings in central Tehran.
(3) Called a truck stand, it involves balancing on the front tyre with your hands in the air.
(4) Many leapt from the tyres they were swinging in to furrow their brows and howl in anger.
(5) When four leather strips were tied to the back tyre of the bicycle before laying the track, the one dog tested took the correct direction significantly more often than predicted by random choice.
(6) Amsterdam Uber drivers have been blocked in by taxi drivers and one reported having his tyres slashed.
(7) Within a month of his appointment, he had brokered a "four-figure" deal with local firm Kettering Tyres, and in a SL game against Bath City on January 24 1976, Kettering became the first British club to run out with a company's name emblazoned on their shirts.
(8) Switching to the faster soft tyre for runs in FP2, Hamilton again comfortably had the edge by 0.443sec over Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen.
(9) The heat is getting oppressive but we stay alert and try to move with the flow, sticking to the left as much as possible and keeping an eye out for potholes and drain covers whose grilles face the direction of travel – lying in wait to trap unwary bike tyres.
(10) They reportedly threw rocks and paint at the car before smashing a window and slashing one of its tyres.
(11) When her car broke down, she ended up out of work with other labourers on a pea-picking farm, selling her tyres to buy food.
(12) The Formula One tyre manufacturer, Pirelli, expressed concerns at the decision and has warned that any decrease in viewing figures would lead to difficulties.
(13) The group's senior UK executives have privately told MPs in the West Midlands for months that the pound's fluctuations were undermining a plant that has exported more than 300m tyres since it opened in 1927.
(14) In Brisbane during October 1988 one larva of the exotic dengue vector Aedes albopictus (Skuse) was collected by quarantine officers from a consignment of used vehicle tyres imported from Asia.
(15) "I was getting cards saying 'I hope you die in an ambulance on the way to hospital now you have closed this one… ' I had my car tyres slashed, 'Bitch' written on my windows, and 'Shut your effing mouth'."
(16) The eight Goodyear tyre factory workers held two managers hostage in a meeting room for 30 hours in a high-profile “bossnapping” incident in the northern town of Amiens in 2014.
(17) Vettel was fourth on the timesheet, 1.120sec down, with Rosberg fifth after making a mistake on his fast lap on the soft tyres.
(18) Emma Sheppard, with an accomplice, brought three police cars to a juddering halt on New Year’s Eve 2014 in Bristol by puncturing their tyres with the crude device made of plywood and nails.
(19) He singled out measures taken against China’s steel, solar panel, ceramics and tyre industries.
(20) They tied up Badus and Amisi's wife, put them inside a tyre and burned them alive.