RIGS Synonyms: 87 Similar and Opposite Words

rigs 1 of 2

noun

plural of rig

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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rigs

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verb

present tense third-person singular of rig

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

Noun

Founded by former truck driver Chace Barber, the company is focusing on diesel-electric tech to power real working vehicles like log loaders, crane trucks, and drilling rigs. — Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 16 Aug. 2026 Standard bitcoin mining rigs cost a lot and use a considerable amount of power, which keeps most people out of solo mining. — Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 15 Aug. 2026 Other truck drivers will also begin sharing lanes with autonomous rigs. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 Aug. 2026 Charter boats trolling big bucktails or even umbrella rigs have targeted large, post-spawn fish for decades. — Ken Perrotte, USA Today, 4 Aug. 2026 These rigs provide unparalleled fishing for myriad gamefish species. — Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 29 July 2026 As miners switch off rigs, the network's hashrate has slid, and some say the security cost is being waved away. — Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026 The more costly and time-consuming methods involve humans wearing teleoperation rigs to directly guide a robot’s physical motions in training or running many experimental trials with robots in labs or other environments. — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 7 July 2026 The internet is full of guides to retrofitting an existing canoe with sailing rigs, but most of them require you to drill into the hull—a risky alteration for less crafty owners. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 2 July 2026

Verb

There’s infectious joy and wonder as the Eridian who will come to be known as Rocky begins communicating with Ryland, at first with rudimentary signals and then with more complex language once Ryland rigs a translation device. — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 10 Mar. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for rigs

Noun

The report also called on Transport for London, which operates the city’s underground train network, to add air conditioning to new tube trains and look for new ways to keep carriages and platforms cool.

— Olivia Rudgard, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2026
In 1859, the engineer Ildefons Cerdà submitted an expansion plan that broke with convention by making even residential streets twenty metres wide—five for each sidewalk and ten for carriages.

— Eric Klinenberg, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of carriages

Noun

The streetscape, the shopfronts, the hansom cabs, the coal smoke, the gaslights, the stink?

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2026
In the same way that London is more than just red buses, black cabs, and a rather large parliamentary clock, England is more than just the vigor of London.

— Katie Silcox, Vogue, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of cabs

Verb

Walsh says that building a capsule wardrobe each season can make shopping and planning outfits less stressful.

— Kaitlin Clapinski, InStyle, 21 Aug. 2026
Other detractors have compared the uniform to Vanderbilt and Colorado, two gold and black programs that Nike also outfits.

— PJ Green, Kansas City Star, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of outfits

Verb

For example, the female carpenter bee provisions her nest with nectar and pollen, lays the eggs, and then the eggs hatch in late summer to fall.

— Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 19 Dec. 2025
Inside, the wasp provisions its offspring with paralyzed spiders or insects.

— Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025