ig
IPA: ɪg
Root Word: IG
noun
- (epigraphy) Latin IG.
- (medicine) Abbreviation of immunoglobulin. [(biochemistry, immunology) Any of the glycoproteins in blood serum that respond to invasion by foreign antigens and that protect the host by removing pathogens; an antibody.]
- Initialism of inspector general. [A senior official responsible for inspecting conformance to the standards in a civil or military organization.]
- Abbreviation of Instagram. [(Internet) An online photo- and video-sharing social networking service, originally designed to mimic old-fashioned instant cameras.]
verb
- Alternative form of igg (“to ignore”) [(transitive, colloquial) To ignore deliberately.]
adjective
- (video games, slang) Abbreviation of in-game. [(gaming) Within an essential part of video game, not including the character selection.]
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Examples of "ig" in Sentences
- "- ig -" and "- igx -", 239; from primary words, 159, 171.
- In Esperanto the suffix "- ig -" (214) must be used when the transitive meaning is desired.
- (She wanted books that contained words that had the letters "ig" in them -- wig, pig, etc.)
- Some verbs may be used in the simple form, and also with both the suffix "- ig -" and the suffix "- igx -".
- You're plum 'sunk so deep in sloth an' ig'rance that you're jest satisfied with anythin ', no matter how bad it is.
- Passive voice, agent of, 169; participles of, see Participles; tenses of, see Tenses; of "- ig -" formations, 239; distinguished from
- The suffix "- ig -" is used to form verbs indicating the "causing, rendering or bringing about" of that which is expressed in the root or formation to which it is attached.
- It's just another republicunt carpetbagger fooling us po 'ig'nant mofos into believing in him and then showing his true colors, assuming that all will follow his shining white ass.
- Patrick: I've never used that in my life.google. com/ig, which is like the personalized homepage service and I think then, you can fill it with widgets and all that sort of stuff and it's still got the Google search at the top.
- There was the grand stand, whence the great guns of the Democracy were to orate, and a number of smaller platforms for the less shining lights, and a German stand whence the young ravens of Fatherland could be fed with interminable jobations ending in 'ig' and 'ert.'
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