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Gig can be a noun or a verb.
gig used as a noun:
- A performing engagement by a musical group; or, generally, any job or role for a musician or performer.
"I caught one of the Rolling Stones' first gigs in Richmond." - Any job; especially one that is temporary; or alternately, one that is very desirable.
"I had this gig as a file clerk but it wasn't my style so I left." - A two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage.
- A forked spear for catching fish, frogs, or other small animals.
- A six-oared sea rowing boat commonly found in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
- A gigabyte.
"This picture is almost a gig; don't you wanna resize it?"
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
gig used as a verb:
- To catch with a gig.
- To engage in musical performances.
"The Stones were gigging around Richmond at the time" - To make fun of; to make a joke at someone's expense, often condescending.
"His older cousin was just gigging him about being in love with that girl from school."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is gig?
- Noun usage: I caught one of the Rolling Stones' first gigs in Richmond.
- Noun usage: Hey, when are we gonna get that hotel gig again?
- Noun usage: Our guitar player had another gig so we had to get a sub.
- Noun usage: I had this gig as a file clerk but it wasn't my style so I left.
- Noun usage: Hey, that guy's got a great gig over at the bike shop. He hardly works all day!
- Noun usage: This picture is almost a gig; don't you wanna resize it?
- Noun usage: How much music does it hold? A hundred and twenty gigs.
- Verb usage: The Stones were gigging around Richmond at the time
- Verb usage: His older cousin was just gigging him about being in love with that girl from school.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of gig are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of gig, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
