rigging

«rigging» in Mova's school dictionary: All the ropes, wires and chains that hold up a ship's… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (rigging, uncountable); verb, -ing form of «rig» (rig, rigs, rigged, rigging)

meaning for a pupil

1) All the ropes, wires and chains that hold up a ship's masts and work the sails. tree →

2) Cheating to fix the result of something in advance, as in «vote rigging» or «match rigging». tree →

3) Putting up equipment, like rigging lights for a show. tree →

sense in the lessons

In sea stories and history, sailors climb the rigging to set the sails; the Sea Rat in The Wind in the Willows tells of ships and voyages. In citizenship lessons, rigging an election is cheating and is against the law.

examples

• The sailors climbed the rigging to the top of the mast. tree →
• The wind howled through the rigging. tree →
• (law) Vote rigging means cheating in an election. tree →
• They accused the referee of rigging the match. tree →
• The crew were rigging the lights for the school play. tree →
• Old ships had miles of rigging. tree →
• The wind cut through the rigging, and the boat cut through the sea. tree →

note

From «rig». Uncountable for the ropes. The second sense is always bad: rigging = cheating.

Trees and pragmatics

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