Word Helper: An Associative Language Search Engine

Words Described by "Jig"

  1. saw
  2. leg
  3. tree
  4. saws
  5. maker
  6. jog
  7. plate
  8. dancing
  9. borer
  10. step

What Google Knows

A jigsaw puzzle is a tiling puzzle that requires the assembly of often irregularly shaped interlocking and mosaicked pieces, each of which typically has a portion of a picture. When assembled, the puzzle pieces produce a complete picture.

Related Definition

  1. jig:

    n (music) A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.

    n (traditional Irish music and dance) A lively dance in 6/8 (double jig), 9/8 (slip jig) or 12/8 (single jig) time; a tune suitable for such a dance. By extension, a lively traditional tune in any of these time signatures. Unqualified, the term is usually taken to refer to a double (6/8) jig.

    n (traditional English Morris dance) A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team.

    n (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.

    n A device in manufacturing, woodworking, or other creative endeavors for controlling the location, path of movement, or both of either a workpiece or the tool that is operating upon it. Subsets of this general class include machining jigs, woodworking jigs, welders' jigs, jewelers' jigs, and many others.

    n (mining) An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.

    n (obsolete) A light, humorous piece of writing, especially in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad.

    n (obsolete) A trick; a prank.

    v To move briskly, especially as a dance.

    v To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks.

    v (fishing) To fish with a jig.

    v To sing to the tune of a jig.

    v To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.

    v (mining) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve.

    v To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.

    v To skip school or be truant (Australia, Canadian Maritimes)

    n (US, offensive, slang, dated, ethnic slur) A black person.

    n (World War II era, joint US/RAF) radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter J.


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