gig
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (6)gigs
- long and light rowing boat; especially for racingType of small boat
- an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fishSynonyms: spearfizgigfishgiglanceType of implementKinds leister, harpoonMember of fishing gear, tackle
- a cluster of hooks (without barbs) that is drawn through a school of fish to hook their bodies; used when fish are not bitingType of hookPart of fishing gear, tackle
- tender that is a light ship's boat; often for personal use of captainType of tender, ship's boat
- small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and no hoodType of carriage, equipage
- a booking for musicians“they played a gig in New Jersey”Type of engagement, booking
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Translations
Noun performing engagement by a musician or musical group
Noun two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: Cf. OF. gigue. See Jig, noun
A fiddle. obsolete
Origin: Prob. fr. L. gignere to beget.
To engender. obsolete John Dryden
A kind of spear or harpoon. See Fishgig.
To fish with a gig.
Origin: OE. gigge. Cf. Giglot.
A playful or wanton girl; a giglot.
Origin: Cf. Icel. gīgja fiddle, MHG. gīge, G. geige, Icel. geiga to take a wrong direction, rove at random, and E. jig.
1. A top or whirligig; any little thing that is whirled round in play.
Thou disputest like an infant; go, whip thy gig.— William Shakespeare
2. A light carriage, with one pair of wheels, drawn by one horse; a kind of chaise.
3. Nautical A long, light rowboat, generally clinkerbuilt, and designed to be fast; a boat appropriated to the use of the commanding officer; as, the captain's gig.
4. Machinery A rotatory cylinder, covered with wire teeth or teasels, for teaseling woolen cloth.
Gig machine, Gigging machine, Gig mill, or Napping machine. See Gig, 4. — Gig saw. See Jig saw.
A job for a specified, usually short period of time; — used especially for the temporary engagements of an entertainer, such as a jazz musician or a rock group; as, a one-week gig in Las Vegas.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: GCIDE editors
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
<unit, data> (GB or colloquially "gig") A unit of data equal to one billion bytes but see binary prefix for other definitions. A gigabyte is 1000^3 bytes or 1000 megabytes.
A human gene sequence (including all the redundant codons) contains about 1.5 gigabytes of data.
1000 gigabytes are one terabyte.
See prefix.
{Human genome data content
(http://bitesizebio.com/articles/how-much-information-is-stored-in-the-human-genome/)}.
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The Jargon File
[SI] See quantifiers.