rig

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

2. (transitive) To fit out with a harness or other equipment.Examples: "To rig such massive equipment requires experienced riggers"transitive

3. (transitive, informal) To dress or clothe in some costume.informaltransitive

4. (transitive) To make or construct something in haste or in a makeshift manner.Examples: "rig up a makeshift shelter"transitive

5. (transitive) To manipulate something dishonestly for personal gain or discriminatory purposes.Examples: "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."Synonyms: swingtransitive

6. (transitive, obsolete) To make free with; hence, to steal; to pilfer.Examples: "Sir Hew is a rigging thy gate or the plow"obsoletetransitive

1. (Northern England, Scotland, dialect) A ridge.Northern-EnglandScotlanddialectal

1. (obsolete) A wanton person; one given to unbecoming conduct.Examples: "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."obsolete

2. (obsolete) A sportive or unbecoming trick; a frolic.Examples: "Away went Gilpin neck or nought, / Away went hat and wig, / He little dreamt when he ſet out / Of running ſuch a rig."obsolete

3. (obsolete) A blast of wind.Examples: "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."obsolete

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To play the wanton; to act in an unbecoming manner; to play tricks.Examples: "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."Synonyms: harlotizeintransitiveobsolete

1. (algebra, ring theory) An algebraic structure similar to a ring, but without the requirement that every element have an additive inverse.Examples: "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."Synonyms: semiring