English Dictionary

jig

IPA（発音記号）

/d͡ʒɪɡ/

名詞

アイルランド英語 伝統的 廃用

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

日本語の意味

ジグ：陽気で軽快なリズムの楽曲、またはその舞曲

At the village fair, the fiddler launched into a sprightly jig that had everyone dancing.

村の祭りで、フィドラーは陽気で軽快な舞曲を奏で始め、皆を踊らせた。

意味（1）

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

意味（2）

(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.

They danced a jig.

意味（3）

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

意味（4）

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

意味（5）

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.

Cutting circles out of pinewood is best done with a compass-style jig.

意味（6）

(mining) An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.

意味（7）

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

A jig shall be clapped at, and every rhyme / Praised and applauded by a clamorous chime.

意味（8）

(obsolete) A trick; a prank.

This Innovation? Is't not a fine Jigg? / A precious cunning in the late Protector / To shuffle a new Prince into the State.

jigs （ plural ）