rigger
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɹɪɡə(ɹ)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɹɪɡɚ/
Audio (UK) (file) - Homophones: rigor, rigour
- Rhymes: -ɪɡə(ɹ)
Etymology 1
rig + -er
Noun
rigger (plural riggers)
- One who rigs or dresses; as:
- One whose occupation is to fit the rigging of a ship or of a counterweight system.
- One whose occupation is to lift and move large and heavy objects (such as industrial machinery) with the help of cables, hoists, and other equipment.
- 1998, Glen Ballou, Handbook for Sound Engineers: The New Audio Cyclopedia, page 1250:
- What if the rigger (the person who anchors the grids to the building ceiling) mishangs a single cable?
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- (animation) One whose occupation is to outfit a computer model with controls for animation.
- 2012, Verónica Orvalho; Pedro Bastos; Frederic Parke; Bruno Oliveira; Xenxo Alvarez, “A Facial Rigging Survey: State of the Art Report”, in EUROGRAPHICS:
- It is common that after the rig is created an animator asks the rigger to create new controls, because the character needs to support new poses or simply needs to look better.
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- One who rigs or manipulates (an election, etc).
- 1988, Australian Parliament, House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard): House of Representatives:
- The real riggers of electoral boundaries in New South Wales were those who got loose after 1965. When the boys from George Street and Ash Street got loose there was a majority in the Parliament. That is when there was a redistribution […]
- 2018, Cliff Edogun, The Rude Awakening: Nigerian Millennials Take Their Country by Storm., AuthorHouse, →ISBN:
- An election rigger who assumes illegitimate political power would be primarily motivated to spread their corrosive toxins across the political system, thus rendering institutions of government dysfunctional and convoluted.
- 1988, Australian Parliament, House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard): House of Representatives:
- A part of a rowing boat's equipment used to provide leverage for a rowing blade or oar around a fixed fulcrum.
- A cylindrical pulley or drum in machinery.
- (New Zealand) A plastic bottle of beer, typically between 1 L to 2.5 L volume.
- A long, slender, pointed sable paintbrush for making fine lines, etc.; said to be so called from its use for drawing the lines of the rigging of ships.
- (BDSM) A person who applies functional or artistic rope bondage to another person's body.
Coordinate terms
- (BDSM): rope bunny
Translations
one who rigs or dresses
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one who rigs or manipulates (an election, etc)
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a part of a rowing boat's equipment
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a long, slender, pointed sable paintbrush for making fine lines, etc.
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Etymology 2
Abbreviation
Noun
rigger (plural riggers)
- (paraskiing) Ellipsis of outrigger.
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
rigger m
- indefinite plural of rigg
Verb
rigger
- present of rigge