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jig
1[ jig ]
noun
- Machinery. a plate, box, or open frame for holding work and for guiding a machine tool to the work, used especially for locating and spacing drilled holes; fixture.
- Angling. any of several devices or lures, especially a hook or gang of hooks weighted with metal and dressed with hair, feathers, etc., for jerking up and down in or drawing through the water to attract fish.
- Mining. an apparatus for washing coal or separating ore from gangue by shaking and washing.
- a cloth-dyeing machine in which the material, guided by rollers, is passed at full width through a dye solution in an open vat.
verb (used with object)
- to treat, cut, produce, etc., with a jig.
verb (used without object)
- to use a jig.
- to fish with a jig.
jig
2[ jig ]
noun
- a rapid, lively, springy, irregular dance for one or more persons, usually in triple meter.
- a piece of music for or in the rhythm of such a dance.
- Obsolete. prank; trick.
verb (used with object)
- to dance (a jig or any lively dance).
- to sing or play in the time or rhythm of a jig:
to jig a tune.
- to move with a jerky or bobbing motion; jerk up and down or to and fro.
jig
3[ jig ]
noun
- (formerly used in communications to represent the letter J. )
jig
4[ jig ]
noun
- a contemptuous term used to refer to a Black person.
jig
/ 诲萧瑟伞 /
noun
- any of several old rustic kicking and leaping dances
- a piece of music composed for or in the rhythm of this dance, usually in six-eight time
- a mechanical device designed to hold and locate a component during machining and to guide the cutting tool
- angling any of various spinning lures that wobble when drawn through the water
- Also calledjigger mining a device for separating ore or coal from waste material by agitation in water
- obsolete.a joke or prank
verb
- to dance (a jig)
- to jerk or cause to jerk up and down rapidly
- often foll by up to fit or be fitted in a jig
- tr to drill or cut (a workpiece) in a jig
- mining to separate ore or coal from waste material using a jig
- intr to produce or manufacture a jig
- slang.to play truant from school
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 箩颈驳顎僱颈办别顎 箩颈驳顎僩颈蝉丑 adjective
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of jig1
Origin of jig2
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of jig1
Idioms and Phrases
Example Sentences
But though they鈥檙e different in many respects, the two best friends can see right through each other, and there鈥檚 a clock ticking until the jig is up.
He did not demand that Martin dance the Lucky Charms leprechaun jig, and did not indulge in blatantly offensive stereotypes about Ireland or Irish people in expressing his affection.
鈥淎s soon as the sheriffs were called, they walked out of the building. They knew that their jig was up.鈥
He shows off a jig, developed in-house, upon which a seat can be mounted and angled so that workers can easily access the sides or underside.
Quins drive Toulouse back with a relentless spell, and after Dombrandt nearly stretches to the line, the ball is recycled to Smith, who jigs past a defender to dot down by the posts.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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