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JURY RIG

Specialty Definition: JURY RIG

DomainDefinition

Food & Agriculture

A temporary or makeshift rig or part thereof set up by the ship's crew to take the place of that which has been lost or carried away. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

Any temporary or makeshift device, rig, or piece of equipment. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: JURY RIG

Synonym by domain: jury-rig (food & agriculture).

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Synonyms within Context: JURY RIG

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Substitution

Verb: substitute, put in the place of, change for; make way for, give place to; supply the place of, take the place of; supplant, supersede, replace, cut out, serve as a substitute; step into stand in the shoes of; jury rig, make a shift with, put up with; borrow from Peter to pay Paul, take money out of one pocket and put it in another, cannibalize; commute, redeem, compound for.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: JURY RIG

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

jury rig

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: JURY RIG

Language Translations for "JURY RIG"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

nødrigning. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

noodtuigage, noodgerei. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

varatakila. (various references)

   

French

  

gréement de fortune. (various references)

   

German

  

Nottakelung, Behelfstakelung. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πρόχειρη εξαρτία. (various references)

   

Italian

  

attrezzatura provvisoria, attrezzatura di fortuna. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

uryjay igray

   

Portuguese

  

aparelho de fortuna. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

aparejo de bandola. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: JURY RIG

Misspellings

"JURY RIG" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: jurry rig, juryrig. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: JURY RIG

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "g-i-j-r-r-u-y"

-2 letters: gurry.

-3 letters: gyri, jury, yirr.

-4 letters: guy, jig, jug, rig, rug.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Synonyms
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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