as in carriages
a horse-drawn wheeled vehicle for carrying passengers
romantic couples enjoy being driven in the old-fashioned rig through the park
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as in supplies
to provide (someone) with what is needed for a task or activity
carefully rigged each diver with the required equipment before starting out
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Recent Examples of rigs
Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 3 Nov. 2025
The Babycatcher chewed his twig and held on to a thin rope, not much more than a string, which disappeared up into the canopy, likely connected to the pulleys and rigs and tackle that worked the biggest net down below.
—Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
Chris Apkarian, senior applications engineer at SYLVANIA, says these lights are great for ATVs, side by sides, or serious off-road rigs that will cross creeks and ford deep puddles.
—Bryan Rogala, Outside Online, 1 Oct. 2025
The concept has never been tested in the real world, and the unfathomable risks include the danger that cables could snap, causing entire rigs to capsize in storms, creating debris fields along the Pacific Coast.
—Craig Rucker, Boston Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
However, the space does provide devices to use, from pipes and papers to volcano vaporizers and dab rigs.
—Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 25 Sep. 2025
The lithium fields outside Reno, Nevada, look like lunar plains with white crusts, shallow pans, and ribbon roads between drilling rigs.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025
In the world of vinyl enthusiasts, Technics is probably best associated with the SL-1200 turntable that debuted way back in 1972 and quickly formed an essential part of many DJ rigs.
—New Atlas, 19 Sep. 2025
Troll nightcrawler harness rigs 20 to 30 feet deep along flats, points and humps.
—Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
Nemenz landed a job as a lens technician at Panavision, then built specialized lenses and camera rigs for the Formula 1 race cars employed for John Frankenheimer’s Grand Prix (1966).
—Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 3 Nov. 2025
The Babycatcher chewed his twig and held on to a thin rope, not much more than a string, which disappeared up into the canopy, likely connected to the pulleys and rigs and tackle that worked the biggest net down below.
—Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
Chris Apkarian, senior applications engineer at SYLVANIA, says these lights are great for ATVs, side by sides, or serious off-road rigs that will cross creeks and ford deep puddles.
—Bryan Rogala, Outside Online, 1 Oct. 2025
The concept has never been tested in the real world, and the unfathomable risks include the danger that cables could snap, causing entire rigs to capsize in storms, creating debris fields along the Pacific Coast.
—Craig Rucker, Boston Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
However, the space does provide devices to use, from pipes and papers to volcano vaporizers and dab rigs.
—Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 25 Sep. 2025
The lithium fields outside Reno, Nevada, look like lunar plains with white crusts, shallow pans, and ribbon roads between drilling rigs.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025
In the world of vinyl enthusiasts, Technics is probably best associated with the SL-1200 turntable that debuted way back in 1972 and quickly formed an essential part of many DJ rigs.
—New Atlas, 19 Sep. 2025
Troll nightcrawler harness rigs 20 to 30 feet deep along flats, points and humps.
—Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rigs
Noun
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The barn complex includes six stalls with individual walkouts, two tack rooms, and space for carriages or gym equipment.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
3 Nov. 2025
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People fled through the carriages seeking safety, with some attempting to barricade themselves in the train restrooms, said other witnesses.—
Lauren Kent,
CNN Money,
3 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Its battery reportedly supplies enough power to dispense two full truckloads of fuel.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Nov. 2025
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Cytiva, which supplies filtration, single-use hardware, and other manufacturing tools for biologic drugs, saw high single-digit core revenue growth.—
Natasha Abellard,
CNBC,
5 Nov. 2025
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Living in an expensive city, surrounded by colleagues who billed a hundred hours a week and ordered cabs home at midnight, McCoy was always the poorest man in the room.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
26 Oct. 2025
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The Tech Coup by Marietje Schaake Technology has been tangled up in modern life for a long time, but the entwinement of Big Tech, as an industry, with our daily habits—everything from tracking friends to hiring cabs—is new.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
22 Oct. 2025
Verb
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If Jentleson’s aim is to moderate an increasingly radical Team Blue, this certainly equips him with a solid rationale.—
Chicago Tribune,
Twin Cities,
29 Oct. 2025
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If Jentleson’s aim is to moderate an increasingly radical Team Blue, this certainly equips him with a solid rationale.—
Boston Herald editorial staff,
Boston Herald,
27 Oct. 2025
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The flip-flop has been very much embraced in the celebrity world, serving as an easygoing accent to outfits like Hailey Bieber’s blue jeans, white T-shirt and black leather jacket combo or Zoë Kravitz’s vintage denim suit.—
Jaden Thompson,
Footwear News,
29 Oct. 2025
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Batman and Robin outfits donned by West and Ward on their 1966-68 ABC series together sold for $575,000, while one worn by Cesar Romero as the Joker went for $212,000.—
Mike Barnes,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Historian-folklorist Adrienne Mayor reminds us that the Indian epics Ramayana and Mahabharata already envision mechanical warriors and self-moving chariots forged by the engineer-god Viśvakarma.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Aug. 2025
Verb
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In a brick building atop a hill a half-mile from the Racing Capital of the World, the decades-old bar furnishes regulars with beer buckets and burgers every day of the week.—
Bradley Hohulin,
IndyStar,
7 Nov. 2025
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The civil-rights movement, which Williams so pointedly admires, furnishes an excellent example of this.—
Andrea Long Chu,
Vulture,
5 Aug. 2025
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Inside, the wasp provisions its offspring with paralyzed spiders or insects.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Sep. 2025
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“Rigs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rigs. Accessed 30 Nov. 2025.
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