gig

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Originally (music), a performing engagement by a musician or musical group; (by extension, film, television, theater) a job or role for a performer.

   “I caught one of the Rolling Stones’ first gigs in Richmond.”

2. isim Any job, especially one that is freelance or temporary, or done on an on-demand basis.

   “I had this gig as a file clerk but it wasn’t my style so I left.”

3. isim A demerit received for some infraction of a military deportment or dress code.

   “I received gigs for having buttons of my uniform undone.”

4. fiil To play (a musical instrument) at a gig.
5. fiil To impose a demerit (on someone) for an infraction of a military deportment or dress code.

   “His sergeant gigged him for an unmade bunk.”

6. fiil To engage in a musical performance, act in a theatre production, etc.

   “The Rolling Stones were gigging around Richmond at the time.”

7. fiil To work at any job, especially one that is freelance or temporary, or done on an on-demand basis.
8. isim Clipping of gigabyte (“one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes”).

   “This picture is almost a gig; don’t you want to resize it?”

9. isim Any unit of measurement having the SI prefix giga-.
10. isim A top which is made to spin by tying a piece of string around it and then throwing it so that the string unwinds rapidly; a whipping-top.

    “Peda[nt]. Thou diſputes like an Infant: goe vvhip thy Gigg. / Pag[e]. Lende me your Horne to make one, and I vvill vvhip about your Infamie vnũ cita a gigge of a Cuckolds horne.”

11. isim A person with an odd appearance; also, a foolish person.
12. isim Fun; frolics.

    “Such was his toil, when one night coming home, / Such swell uncivil, who'd been out to roam / In search of lark, or some delicious gig / The mind delights in, when 'tis in prime twig,—”

13. isim A fanciful impulse; a whim; also, a joke.

    “I muſt goe ſee him preſently, / For this is ſuch a gig: for certaine Gentlemen / The Fiend rides on a Fiddleſticke.”

14. isim A small, narrow, open boat carried in a larger ship, and used for transportation between the ship and the shore, another vessel, etc.

    “The captain's gig still lies before ye whole and sound, / It shall carry all o' we.”

15. isim A similar rowing boat or sailboat, especially one used for racing; specifically, a six-oared sea rowing boat commonly found in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
16. isim A two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse.

    “While Sir William was with them, Mr. Collins devoted his mornings to driving him out in his gig, and shewing him the country; […]”

17. fiil To make a joke, often condescendingly, at the expense of (someone); to make fun of.

    “His older cousin was just gigging him about being in love with that girl from school.”

18. fiil Sometimes followed by it: to ride in a gig (“a two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse”).
19. isim A frivolous, playful, or wanton young woman; a giglet or giglot.
20. isim Synonym of fishgig or fizgig (“a spear with a barb on the end of it, used for catching fish, frogs, or other small animals”).

    “On toward dusk some little gypsy boys whittled gigs from river-birch limbs and went to a backwater and gigged frogs until they had a basketful.”

21. fiil To spear (fish, etc.) with a gig or fizgig.
22. fiil To catch or fish with a gig or fizgig.