ig

«ig» in Mova's school dictionary: short for Instagram, a social media app for photos and… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

abbreviation (IG); fragment (ig)

meaning for a pupil

1) (slang, abbreviation) IG is short for Instagram, a social media app for photos and videos. tree →

2) (texting) «ig» can be short for «I guess». tree →

3) (abbreviation) IG can stand for Inspector General, a person who checks that an organisation follows the rules. tree →

4) (fragment) «ig» is also a word part, as in «igloo» or «pig», and «Ig» is in «Ig Nobel Prize», a joke prize for funny real science. tree →

5) (biology) Ig is short for immunoglobulin, an antibody. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life teens say «Are you on IG?» meaning Instagram. In online safety lessons, social media like IG has age limits (usually 13+), and you should keep accounts private and not share personal details. In texting, «ig» shows an unsure answer. The Ig Nobel Prizes celebrate science that makes people laugh, then think.

examples

• My big sister posted a photo on IG. tree →
• «Are you coming to the park?» — «ig» (I guess). tree →
• You must be 13 to have an IG account. tree →
• The Ig Nobel Prize once went to a study of why woodpeckers don't get headaches. tree →
• The IG report checked how the money was spent. tree →
• The doctor tested her Ig levels. tree →

note

Not an ordinary English word but an abbreviation or fragment, so context tells which. IG for Instagram is usually written in capitals; «ig» for «I guess» is texting slang, not for school writing.

In the corpora

• Banana skins are slippery because of a gel on the inside; scientists who measured it won the joke Ig Nobel Prize in 2014.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «ig» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.