gig
part of speech
noun (a gig, gigs); verb (gig, gigs, gigged, gigging — informal)
meaning for a pupil
1) (informal) A live music show or performance by a band or comedian: We went to a gig. tree →
2) (informal) A job, especially a short or one-off one: a summer gig. tree →
3) (informal) Short for gigabyte: a 64-gig phone. tree →
4) (old) A light two-wheeled carriage pulled by one horse. tree →
5) (verb, informal) To play live music shows. tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday talk teenagers go to gigs and musicians «play a gig»; adults talk about «the gig economy» — work done as many small paid jobs; in computing «gig» = gigabyte. Phrases: «play a gig», «go to a gig», «a paid gig», «gig economy».
examples
- My brother's band is playing its first gig on Friday. tree →
- We went to a gig at the town hall. tree →
- Mum got a gig painting a mural. tree →
- This tablet has 128 gigs of storage. tree →
- The comedian had a gig in Dublin. tree →
- In the old story, the doctor drove a pony and gig. tree →
note
Informal. Plural «gigs». «Gig» for a computer measure is short for gigabyte (GB). In maths, «a 64-gig phone with 20 gigs used» leaves 44 gigs.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «gig» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.