rig

noun

1. The rigging of a sailing ship or other such craft.
2. Special equipment or gear used for a particular purpose.

   “The climbers each had a different rig for climbing that particular rockface.”

   “We used a ground-level rig to safely learn how to tile a gable roof.”

3. (US)A large truck, especially a semi-trailer truck.

   “Every rig at the truckstop had custom-made mud-flaps.”

   “"Big Joe's the name," an' I told him mine / He said: "The name of my rig is Phantom 309."”

   “There's armored cars, and tanks, and Jeeps And rigs of every size. Yeah, them chicken coops was full o'bears And choppers filled the skies.”

4. The special apparatus used for drilling wells.
5. (informal)A costume or an outfit.

   “My sister and I always made our own rigs for Halloween.”

6. (slang)A personal computer, typically one modified for looks.

   “When I saw a special version of Quake running on Voodoo hardware, I knew I would be forking out quite a bit of money on my gaming rig.”

7. An imperfectly castrated horse, sheep etc.
8. (slang)Radio equipment, especially a citizen's band transceiver.
9. (slang)Equipment used for taking recreational drugs.

   “[…] does not know how to pick up the liquid from the cooker, and he asks someone else to use his rig to put his part in his rig.”

   “(Gregg later admitted Cher's inadvertent discovery of his “rig” [drug bag] complete with heroin, needles, and rubber bands, hastened their breakup.)”

10. A model outfitted with parameterized controls for animation.

    “As for the facial stuff, I just didn't have the time to do a really good facial rig and just worked with the one I had, which was insufficiently flexible to accomplish what needed to be done.”

    “As facial models become more and more complex, it is increasingly difficult to define a consistent rig that can work well for every possible movement.”

11. (Northern-England, Scotland, dialectal)A ridge.
12. (obsolete)A wanton person; one given to unbecoming conduct.

    “Let none condemn them [girls] for Rigs, becauſe thus hoiting vvith boys, ſeeing the ſimplicity of their age vvas a Patent to priviledge any innocent paſtime, and fevv mo[r]e years vvill make them bluſh themſelves into better manners.”

13. A promiscuous woman.
14. (obsolete)A sportive or unbecoming trick; a frolic.

    “Away went Gilpin neck or nought, / Away went hat and wig, / He little dreamt when he ſet out / Of running ſuch a rig.”

15. (obsolete)A blast of wind.

    “This ſanguine little king's-fiſher (not preſcient of the ſtorm, as by his inſtinct he ought to be) appearing at that uncertain ſeaſon, before the riggs of Old Michaelmas were yet well compoſed, and when the inclement ſtorms of winter were approaching, began to flicker over the ſeas and was buſy in building it's halcyon neſt as if the angry ocean had been ſoothed by the genial breath of May.”

16. An algebraic structure similar to a ring, but without the requirement that every element have an additive inverse.

    “The set of natural numbers N with the usual operations of addition and multiplication is a rig, but not a ring. The set of integers Z is a ring. For a rig/ring (R,0,+,1,−), the set of polynomials R[x] on a generator x with the usual operations of addition and multiplication is also a rig/ring.”

    “2004, Jerzy Marcinkowski (editor), Computer Science Logic: 18th International Workshop, CSL 2004, Proceedings, Springer, LNCS 3210, page 17, It follows that for each object A its endomorphisms End_C(A) = C(A,A) has the structure of what is now called a rig, that is to say a (commutative) ring without negatives.”

17. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of rapid intervention group.

verb

1. (transitive)To fit out with a harness or other equipment.
2. (transitive)To fit out with a harness or other equipment.

   “To rig such massive equipment requires experienced riggers”

3. (informal, transitive)To dress or clothe in some costume.
4. (transitive)To make or construct something in haste or in a makeshift manner.

   “rig up a makeshift shelter”

5. (transitive)To manipulate something dishonestly for personal gain or discriminatory purposes.

   “to rig an election”

   “Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult.[…]Governments have to find the best people to fill important jobs: there is a limited supply of people who understand the financial system, for example. But governments must also remember that businesses are self-interested actors who will try to rig the system for their own benefit.”

6. (obsolete, transitive)To make free with; hence, to steal; to pilfer.

   “Sir Hew is a rigging thy gate or the plow”

7. (intransitive, transitive)To outfit a model with controls for animation.

   “We can think of rigging a 3D character as a process analogous to setting up the strings that control a puppet.”

8. (intransitive, obsolete)To play the wanton; to act in an unbecoming manner; to play tricks.

   “1616, George Chapman, The Hymn to Hermes, in The Whole Works of Homer (tr.), Rigging and rifling all ways, and no noise / Made with thy soft feet, where it all destroys.”