rig

verb9

1. •
   To fit out with a harness or other equipment.
2. •
   to fix in secret how a game, a vote or a sale will end, so that one side wins by it
3. •
   To equip and fit (a ship) with sails, shrouds, and yards.
4. •
   To outfit a model with controls for animation.

   • We can think of rigging a 3D character as a process analogous to setting up the strings that control a puppet. — 2012
5. •
   To make or construct something in haste or in a makeshift manner.
6. •
   To move (a heavy object) with the help of slings, hoists, block and tackle, levers, or similar equipment.

   • To rig such massive equipment requires experienced riggers
7. •
   (informal) To dress or clothe in some costume.
8. •
   (no longer used) To make free with; hence, to steal; to pilfer.

   • Sir Hew is a rigging thy gate or the plow — 1557
9. •
   (no longer used) To play the wanton; to act in an unbecoming manner; to play tricks.

   • Rigging and rifling all ways, and no noise / Made with thy soft feet, where it all destroys. — 1616

noun16

1. •
   The rigging of a sailing ship or other such craft.
2. •
   Special equipment or gear used for a particular purpose.

   • The climbers each had a different rig for climbing that particular rockface.
   • We used a ground-level rig to safely learn how to tile a gable roof.
3. •
   The special apparatus used for drilling wells.
4. •
   A model outfitted with parameterized controls for animation.

   • As for the facial stuff, I just didn't have the time to do a really good facial rig and just worked with the one I had, which was insufficiently flexible to accomplish what needed to be done. — 2002
5. •
   (slang) A personal computer, typically one modified for looks.

   • When I saw a special version of Quake running on Voodoo hardware, I knew I would be forking out quite a bit of money on my gaming rig. — 2004
6. •
   (slang) Radio equipment, especially a citizen's band transceiver.
7. •
   (slang) Equipment used for taking recreational drugs.

   • […] does not know how to pick up the liquid from the cooker, and he asks someone else to use his rig to put his part in his rig. — 1995
8. •
   (US) A large truck, especially a semi-trailer truck.

   • Every rig at the truckstop had custom-made mud-flaps.
9. •
   (informal) A costume or an outfit.

   • My sister and I always made our own rigs for Halloween.
10. •
    (dialect, Scotland) A ridge.
11. •
    An algebraic structure similar to a ring, but without the requirement that every element have an additive inverse.

    • It follows that for each object A its endomorphisms End_C(A) = C(A,A) has the structure of what is now called a rig, that is to say a (commutative) ring without negatives. — 2004
12. •
    An imperfectly castrated horse, sheep etc.
13. •
    (disapproving) A promiscuous woman.
14. •
    (no longer used) A wanton person; one given to unbecoming conduct.
15. •
    (no longer used) A sportive or unbecoming trick; a frolic.

    • Away went Gilpin neck or nought, / Away went hat and wig, / He little dreamt when he set out / Of running such a rig. — 1782
16. •
    (no longer used) A blast of wind.

noun1

1. •
   Initialism of rapid intervention group.