jig
IPA: dʒˈɪg
noun
- (music) A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.
- (traditional Irish music and dance) A lively dance in 6/8 (double jig), 9/8 (slip jig) or 12/8 (single jig) time; a tune suitable for such a dance. By extension, a lively traditional tune in any of these time signatures. Unqualified, the term is usually taken to refer to a double (6/8) jig.
- (traditional English Morris dance) A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team.
- (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.
- A device in manufacturing, woodworking, or other creative endeavors for controlling the location, path of movement, or both of either a workpiece or the tool that is operating upon it. Subsets of this general class include machining jigs, woodworking jigs, welders' jigs, jewelers' jigs, and many others.
- (mining) An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.
- (obsolete) A light, humorous piece of writing, especially in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad.
- (obsolete) A trick; a prank.
- (US, offensive, slang, dated, ethnic slur) A black person.
- (World War II era, joint US/RAF) radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter J.
verb
- To move briskly, especially as a dance.
- To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks.
- (fishing) To fish with a jig.
- To sing to the tune of a jig.
- To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.
- (mining) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve.
- To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.
- To skip school or be truant (Australia, Canadian Maritimes)
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Examples of "jig" in Sentences
- The jig thus simulates the presence of a pig.
- I hope the person realizes that the jig is up.
- The bottom of the jig incorporates an acute angle.
- They went to somewhere to see the jig performance.
- A trammel is a jig for cutting circles with a router.
- The overhang and angle brace are elaborately jig sawn.
- Someone should put the icon, the JIG Man on the article.
- Early solo dancing was composed mostly of extemporaneous jigging.
- A jig and method of mounting the implant in the jaw bone is also described.
- The most stable technique is the interlocking jig saw or the dove tail joint.
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