Jig vs. Fixture

Jignoun

(music) A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.

Jignoun

A lively dance in 6/8 (double jig), 9/8 (slip jig) or 12/8 (single jig) time; a tune suitable for such a dance. By extension, a lively traditional tune in any of these time signatures. Unqualified, the term is usually taken to refer to a double (6/8) jig.

Jignoun

A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team.

Jignoun

(fishing) A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.

Jignoun

A device in manufacturing, woodworking, or other creative endeavors for controlling the location, path of movement, or both of either a workpiece or the tool that is operating upon it. Subsets of this general class include machining jigs, woodworking jigs, welders' jigs, jewelers' jigs, and many others.

Jignoun

(mining) An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.

Jignoun

(obsolete) A light, humorous piece of writing, especially in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad.

Jignoun

(obsolete) A trick; a prank.

Jignoun

A black person.

Jigverb

To move briskly, especially as a dance.

Jigverb

To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks.

Jigverb

(fishing) To fish with a jig.

Jigverb

To sing to the tune of a jig.

Jigverb

To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.

Jigverb

(mining) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve.

Jigverb

To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.

Jignoun

A light, brisk musical movement.

Jignoun

A light, humorous piece of writing, esp. in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad.

Jignoun

A piece of sport; a trick; a prank.

Jignoun

A trolling bait, consisting of a bright spoon and a hook attached.

Jignoun

A small machine or handy tool

Jigverb

To sing to the tune of a jig.

Jigverb

To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.

Jigverb

To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve. See Jigging, n.

Jigverb

To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.

Jigverb

To dance a jig; to skip about.

Jigverb

To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks.

Jignoun

music in three-four time for dancing a jig

Jignoun

any of various old rustic dances involving kicking and leaping

Jigverb

dance a quick dance with leaping and kicking motions

Jig

The jig (Irish: port, Scottish Gaelic: port-cruinn) is a form of lively folk dance in compound metre, as well as the accompanying dance tune. It first gained popularity in 16th-century Scotland and Northern England, and was quickly adopted on mainland Europe where it eventually became the final movement of the mature Baroque dance suite (the French gigue; Italian and Spanish giga).

Fixturenoun

(legal) Something that is fixed in place, especially a permanent appliance or other item of personal property that is considered part of a house and is sold with it; compare fitting, furnishing.

Fixturenoun

A regular patron of a place or institution; a person constantly present at a certain place.

Fixturenoun

A lighting unit; a luminaire.

Fixturenoun

(sports) A scheduled match.

Fixturenoun

A state that can be recreated, used as a baseline for running software tests.

Fixturenoun

A work-holding or support device used in the manufacturing industry.

Fixtureverb

(transitive) To furnish with, as, or in a fixture.

Fixtureverb

To schedule (a match).

Fixturenoun

That which is fixed or attached to something as a permanent appendage; as, the fixtures of a pump; the fixtures of a farm or of a dwelling, that is, the articles which a tenant may not take away.

Fixturenoun

State of being fixed; fixedness.

Fixturenoun

Anything of an accessory character annexed to houses and lands, so as to constitute a part of them. This term is, however, quite frequently used in the peculiar sense of personal chattels annexed to lands and tenements, but removable by the person annexing them, or his personal representatives. In this latter sense, the same things may be fixtures under some circumstances, and not fixtures under others.

Fixturenoun

a object firmly fixed in place (especially in a household)

Fixturenoun

a regular patron;

Fixturenoun

the quality of being fixed in place

Fixturenoun

the act of putting something in working order again