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Rig is an English word of 3 letters with synonyms like gear or cheat. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Rig meaning

  1. The rigging of a sailing ship or other such craft.
  2. Special equipment or gear used for a particular purpose.
  3. A large truck, especially a semi-trailer truck.

Synonyms of Rig

gear set up cheat outfit appurtenance paraphernalia rigging motortruck truck semi articulated lorry trucking rig tractor trailer trailer truck formation

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Using Rig

  • The main meaning on this page is: The rigging of a sailing ship or other such craft. | Special equipment or gear used for a particular purpose. | A large truck, especially a semi-trailer truck.
  • Useful related words include: gear, set up, cheat, outfit.
  • Possible Dutch translations are: harnassen.
  • In the example corpus, rig often appears in combinations such as: to rig, rig the, the rig.

Context around Rig

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 28.1 words
  • Position in the sentence: 10 start, 5 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Rig

  • In this selection, "rig" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 28.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, drilling, oil, sloop, veda, typical and configurations stand out and add context to how "rig" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a cutter rig or a and a five rig drilling program. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "rig" sits close to words such as ada, adaptive and altering, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with rig

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Rickety Rig appears as the ruins that remain from The Rig. (11 words)

After each one is defeated, a vent will open on the Injection Rig. (13 words)

According to the environmental organization, Greenpeace activists boarded a ship transporting a Shell drilling rig in protest. (17 words)

Being the late 50s, mid-air refueling wasn’t really a thing, and it was definitely not something he could rig up for the Cessna even if it were, but unlike big planes and fighters, the Cessna had a trick up its sleeve: it was really, really slow. (48 words)

It was called the emergency rig, and was named as such because its main use was to get the ship to sail (away) faster if it got into trouble and the crew was not able to get the main rig up quickly enough. (43 words)

According to Brereton, Dharman occurs 63 times in Rig-veda ; in addition, words related to Dharman also appear in Rig-veda, for example once as dharmakrt, 6 times as satyadharman, and once as dharmavant, 4 times as dharman and twice as dhariman. (42 words)

Example sentences (20)

Rationale behind the sloop rig Typical Bermuda rigged sloop After the cat rig, which has only a mainsail, the sloop rig is one of the simpler sailing rig configurations.

Canada’s largest drilling rig contracting company has seen such surprising growth in customer demand after the opening of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion that its CEO believes a rig shortage could be possible by next year.

Rickety Rig appears as the ruins that remain from The Rig.

Haiyang Shiyou oil rig, the first deep-water drilling rig developed in China, is in the South China Sea on May 7, 2012.

According to Brereton, Dharman occurs 63 times in Rig-veda ; in addition, words related to Dharman also appear in Rig-veda, for example once as dharmakrt, 6 times as satyadharman, and once as dharmavant, 4 times as dharman and twice as dhariman.

It was called the emergency rig, and was named as such because its main use was to get the ship to sail (away) faster if it got into trouble and the crew was not able to get the main rig up quickly enough.

So, until the 1950s, sailboats over 10 metres Length Over All would typically use a cutter rig or a two-mast rig.

This rig is also called the Marconi rig because of the resemblance of its tall mast and complex standing rigging to Guglielmo Marconi 's wireless (radio) transmission antennas.

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According to the environmental organization, Greenpeace activists boarded a ship transporting a Shell drilling rig in protest.

After each one is defeated, a vent will open on the Injection Rig.

Ali Khalifa, an oil rig worker from Zawiya, west of Tripoli, said his cousin and a group of other men from his neighbourhood joined a convoy of vehicles heading to Derna to help out with relief efforts.

Along with taking on water and being disconnected from the rest of the world due to a vicious storm, the oil rig has also been invaded by something that appears to not be human.

A natural gas flare from an offshore oil drilling rig is seen in Cook Inlet in an undated photo.

And then we'll try to allocate some subsea construction of vessels as much as possible to start doing some work at Albacora, works that do not require a rig.

A North Star Manganese drill rig operated on property north of Emily in Crow Wing County, pulling up rock core to better understand the potential of a mine there.

As a result, Earthstone's drilling location inventory life is expected to be extended to years with a five-rig drilling program.

A Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 encased in a red puck in front of a rig used to test chips in production.

Being the late 50s, mid-air refueling wasn’t really a thing, and it was definitely not something he could rig up for the Cessna even if it were, but unlike big planes and fighters, the Cessna had a trick up its sleeve: it was really, really slow.

BW’s MaBoMo rig was provided by the UAE’s Lamprell and arrived in Gabon last September to undergo installation and hook-up.

He hooked his big fish on a Charlie Dutton Sliding Rig purchased from Live Bait East Waterboro and has received good advice from Jake Rackliff at Cast and Call Guide Service in Shapleigh.

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Common combinations with rig

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "rig" in a sentence?
An example: "Rationale behind the sloop rig Typical Bermuda rigged sloop After the cat rig, which has only a mainsail, the sloop rig is one of the simpler sailing rig configurations." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "rig" from authentic English texts.
What does "rig" mean?
Rig means: The rigging of a sailing ship or other such craft.
What are synonyms of "rig"?
Common synonyms of "rig" include: gear, set up, cheat, outfit, appurtenance, paraphernalia, rigging, motortruck. Plus 7 more synonyms.
What is "rig" in Dutch?
"rig" translates to Dutch as: harnassen.
How many example sentences with "rig" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "rig", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.