RIGS Synonyms: 87 Similar and Opposite Words

rigs 1 of 2

noun

plural of rig

as in carriages

a horse-drawn wheeled vehicle for carrying passengers romantic couples enjoy being driven in the old-fashioned rig through the park

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rigs

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verb

present tense third-person singular of rig

as in supplies

to provide (someone) with what is needed for a task or activity carefully rigged each diver with the required equipment before starting out

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Recent Examples of rigs

Noun

Unlike pure experimental rigs, Mark-1 is designed as a commercially representative plant. — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026 But the spacecraft sets were too elaborate to recreate onboard, so Gosling performed on wire rigs, including a rotating harness. — Davide Abbatescianni, Variety, 18 Oct. 2026 Up until now, these have been confined to Linux systems and clusters, beefy desktop rigs, and servers that offer private compute in the cloud. — Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 15 Oct. 2026 According to Seroka, more than half the truckers registered at the port run five rigs or fewer. — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2026 The convoy included not only work trucks and drilling rigs, but Border Patrol vehicles as well. — Ryan Devereaux, ProPublica, 10 Oct. 2026 There were online comments galore about Paul Thomas Anderson and Benny Safdie sightings at Cameron Winter‘s show at Carnegie Hall last December, and how both of these name-brand auteurs were running around with Panavision rigs on their shoulders. — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2026 This saves a lot of weight and cuts costs in comparison to complete slide-in campers, creating a more versatile way of turning even small trucks into capable camping rigs. — New Atlas, 1 Sep. 2026 Henley was responsible for painting rigs controlling the planes out, as well as with putting scenery in outside the windows. — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 29 Aug. 2026

Verb

Wordplay, The Crossword Column Rebecca Goldstein rigs up a clever crossword. — Sam Corbin, New York Times, 22 July 2026 There’s infectious joy and wonder as the Eridian who will come to be known as Rocky begins communicating with Ryland, at first with rudimentary signals and then with more complex language once Ryland rigs a translation device. — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 10 Mar. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for rigs

Noun

This blatant robbery is the pending bill to ban the 68 Central Park horse carriages.

— New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 22 Oct. 2026
The drivers say there's nothing that guarantees they will be made whole for their medallions, horses and carriages.

— Marcia Kramer, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of carriages

Verb

Maybe no scene better embodies Lee’s exquisite communion with his characters than his last one, which supplies them with a hint of grace.

— Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
The Water Authority supplies water to a population of more than 432,000 people in 15 South Central Connecticut municipalities.

— Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of supplies

Noun

The company also has experience running trucks commercially with empty cabs.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2026
There are glistening construction workers and disembodied skirts blowing upwards from the convected wind of subway grates and cabs again, a heat-wave dream loop.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of cabs

Verb

To maximize this advantage, Opel equips the STX with intelligent active aerodynamics.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 21 Oct. 2026
That doesn’t just ease the minds of residents, the HOA president told the Herald, but equips them with data that could be used in potential litigation.

— Denise Hruby, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of equips

Noun

Its influence eventually spread far beyond carts and chariots.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 16 Aug. 2026
The 5,398 officially noted burial objects included ceremonial figurines, chariots, pieces of jewelry and artwork, and even piles of food.

— Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of chariots

Verb

Drawing influence from Chicago outfits such as New Capital and Queer Thoughts (which later moved to New York and became influential there), Prairie showcased a range of artists whose work might not have fit neatly into the commercial ecosystem.

— Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 19 Oct. 2026
The itineraries have little in common; the travel outfits, though, are another story.

— Elly Leavitt, Vogue, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of outfits

Verb

The question no longer would be simply what provisions a union can persuade a school to accept, but what provisions an outside arbitration panel could compel it to accept.

— Mailee Smith, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026
For example, the female carpenter bee provisions her nest with nectar and pollen, lays the eggs, and then the eggs hatch in late summer to fall.

— Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 19 Dec. 2025