Synonyms of the word

gig

• n. (informal, music) A performing engagement by a musical group; or, generally, any job or role, especially…
• n. (informal, by extension) Any job; especially one that is temporary; or alternately, one that is very desirable.
• n. (now historical) A two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage.
• n. (archaic) A forked spear for catching fish, frogs, or other small animals.
• n. (Southern England) A six-oared sea rowing boat commonly found in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
• n. (US, military) A demerit received for some infraction of military dress or deportment codes.
• v. To fish or catch with a gig, or fish spear.
• v. To engage in musical performances.
• v. To make fun of; to make a joke at someone's expense, often condescending.
• v. (US, military) To impose a demerit for an infraction of a dress or deportment code.
• n. (colloquial, computing) A gigabyte.
• n. (slang) Any unit having the SI prefix giga-.
• n. A playful or wanton girl; a giglot.
• v. To engender.

booking

• v. present participle of book.
• n. The act or process of writing something down in a book or books, e.g. in accounting.
• n. A reservation for a service, such as accommodation in an hotel.
• n. The engagement of a performer for a particular performance.
• n. (sports) The issuing of a caution which is usually written down in a book, and results in a yellow card…
• n. (law) The process of photographing, fingerprinting and recording identifying data of a suspect following…

carriage

• n. The act of conveying; carrying.
• n. Means of conveyance.
• n. A wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.
• n. (Britain) A rail car, especially one designed for the conveyance of passengers.
• n. (now rare) A manner of walking and moving in general; how one carries oneself, bearing, gait.
• n. (archaic) One's behaviour, or way of conducting oneself towards others.
• n. The part of a typewriter supporting the paper.
• n. (US, New England) A shopping cart.
• n. (Britain) A stroller; a baby carriage.
• n. The charge made for conveying (especially in the phrases carriage forward, when the charge is to be paid…
• n. (archaic) That which is carried, baggage.

cutter

• n. A person or device that cuts (in various senses).
• n. (nautical) A single-masted, fore-and-aft rigged, sailing vessel with at least two headsails, and a mast…
• n. A foretooth; an incisor.
• n. A heavy-duty motor boat for official use.
• n. (nautical) A ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore.
• n. (cricket) A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut.
• n. (baseball) A cut fastball.
• n. (slang) A ten-pence piece. So named because it is the coin most often sharpened by prison inmates to use…
• n. (slang) A person who practices self-injury.
• n. (obsolete) An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid.
• n. (obsolete) A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer.
• n. (obsolete) A kind of soft yellow brick, easily cut, and used for facework.
• n. A light sleigh drawn by one horse.

engagement

• n. (countable) an appointment, especially to speak or perform.
• n. (uncountable) connection or attachment.
• n. (uncountable, by extension, about human emotional state) the feeling of being compelled, drawn in, connected…
• n. (countable, uncountable) the period of time when marriage is planned or promised.
• n. (countable, uncountable) In any situation of conflict, an actual instance of active hostilities.
• n. (fencing, countable) the point at which the fencers are close enough to join blades, or to make an effective…

equipage

• n. (uncountable) Equipment or supplies, especially military ones.
• n. (obsolete) Military dress; uniform, armour etc.
• n. A type of horse-drawn carriage.

fishgig

• n. (fishing) Alternative spelling of fizgig.

fizgig

• n. (archaic) A flirtatious, coquettish girl, inclined to gad or gallivant about; a gig, a giglot.
• n. (archaic) Something frivolous or trivial; a gewgaw, a trinket.
• v. (archaic, intransitive) To roam around in a frivolous manner; to gad about, to gallivant.
• n. (archaic) A small squib-like firework that explodes with a fizzing or hissing noise.
• n. (fishing) A spear with a barb on the end of it, used for catching fish; a type of harpoon.
• n. (Australia, slang, dated) A police informer.
• v. (Australia, slang, dated) To act as a police informer.
• n. (Scotland, rare) The common ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris).

hook

• n. A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other…
• n. A fishhook, a barbed metal hook used for fishing.
• n. Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
• n. (informal) A ship's anchor.
• n. That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
• n. A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, e.g. g and j.
• n. (music) A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
• n. A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make…
• n. A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
• n. (informal) Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
• n. (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the…
• n. (baseball) A curveball.
• n. (software) A feature, definition, or coding that enables future enhancements to happen compatibly or more…
• n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. See draw, slice,…
• n. (basketball) A basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket,…
• n. (boxing) A type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly…
• n. (slang) A jack (the playing card).
• n. (typography, rare) A háček.
• n. (Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter…
• n. (bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
• n. (bridge, slang) A finesse.
• n. A snare; a trap.
• n. A field sown two years in succession.
• n. (in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
• n. (geography) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook…
• v. (transitive) To attach a hook to.
• v. (transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
• v. (transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
• v. (transitive) To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
• v. (transitive) To ensnare someone, as if with a hook.
• v. (Britain, US, slang, archaic) To steal.
• v. (transitive) To connect (hook into, hook together).
• v. (usually in passive) To make addicted; to captivate.
• v. (cricket, golf) To play a hook shot.
• v. (rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated…
• v. (field hockey, ice hockey) To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick…
• v. (soccer) To swerve a ball; kick a ball so it swerves or bends.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To engage in prostitution.
• v. (Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
• v. (bridge, slang) To finesse.
• v. (transitive) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
• v. (intransitive) To move or go with a sudden turn.

implement

• n. A tool or instrument for working with.
• v. to bring about; to put into practice.
• v. to carry out; to do.

lance

• n. A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen.
• n. A wooden spear, sometimes hollow, used in jousting or tilting, designed to shatter on impact with the…
• n. (fishing) A spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.
• n. (military) A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
• n. (military) An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
• n. (founding) A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
• n. (pyrotechnics) One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines…
• n. (medicine) A lancet.
• v. To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
• v. To open with a lancet; to pierce.
• v. To throw in the manner of a lance; to lanch.

pinnace

• n. (nautical) A light boat, traditionally propelled by sails, but may also be a rowboat. Pinnaces are usually…

rig

• n. (nautical) The rigging of a sailing ship or other such craft.
• n. Special equipment or gear used for a particular purpose.
• n. (US) A large truck such as a semi-tractor.
• n. The special apparatus used for drilling wells.
• n. (informal) A costume or an outfit.
• n. (slang, computing) A computer case, often modified for looks.
• n. An imperfectly castrated horse, sheep etc.
• n. (slang) Radio equipment, especially a citizen's band transceiver.
• v. (transitive) To fit out with a harness or other equipment.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To equip and fit (a ship) with sails, shrouds, and yards.
• v. (transitive, informal) To dress or clothe in some costume.
• v. (transitive) To make or construct something in haste or in a makeshift manner.
• v. (transitive) To manipulate something dishonestly for personal gain or discriminatory purposes.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To play the wanton; to act in an unbecoming manner; to play tricks.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To make free with; hence, to steal; to pilfer.
• n. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) A ridge.
• n. (obsolete) A wanton; one given to unbecoming conduct.
• n. (obsolete) A sportive or unbecoming trick; a frolic.
• n. (obsolete) A blast of wind.

spear

• n. A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting…
• n. (now chiefly historical) A soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman.
• n. A sharp tool used by fishermen to retrieve fish.
• n. (ice hockey) an illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player.
• n. (wrestling) a running tackle on an opponent performed in professional wrestling.
• n. A shoot, as of grass; a spire.
• n. The feather of a horse.
• n. The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.
• n. A long, thin strip from a vegetable.
• v. To penetrate or strike with, or as if with, any long narrow object. To make a thrusting motion that catches…
• v. (intransitive) To shoot into a long stem, as some plants do.

tender

• adj. Sensitive or painful to the touch.
• adj. Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.
• adj. Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.
• adj. (of food) Soft and easily chewed.
• adj. Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
• adj. Fond, loving, gentle, sweet.
• adj. Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.
• adj. Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.
• adj. (nautical) Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.
• adj. (obsolete) Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
• adj. (obsolete) Careful to keep inviolate, or not to injure; used with of.
• v. (now rare) To make tender or delicate; to weaken.
• v. To feel tenderly towards; to regard fondly.
• n. (obsolete) Regard; care; kind concern.
• n. The inner flight muscle (pectoralis minor) of poultry.
• n. (obsolete) Someone who tends or waits on someone.
• n. (rail transport) A railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel and water.
• n. (nautical) A naval ship that functions as a mobile base for other ships.
• n. (nautical) A smaller boat used for transportation between a large ship and the shore.
• v. (formal) To offer, to give.
• v. to offer a payment, as at sales or auctions.
• n. A means of payment such as a check or cheque, cash or credit card.
• n. (law) A formal offer to buy or sell something.
• n. Any offer or proposal made for acceptance.