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say it: rig
rig is a noun and verb meaning "gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise". It carries 11 recorded senses.
a truck consisting of a tractor and trailer together
formation of masts, spars, sails, etc., on a vessel
gear used in fishing
the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
“that book is a fraud”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for rig come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.