| 词汇 | gig |
| 释义 | gig noun[ C ] uk /ɡɪɡ/ us /ɡɪɡ/ gignoun[C] (PERFORMANCE)informal a single performance by a musician or group of musicians, especially playing modern or pop music, or by a comedian(= a performer who makes people laugh, for example by telling jokes or funny stories): （尤指演奏现代或流行乐的）演奏会 play a gigThe band is going to Atlanta to play a gig at the Fox Theatre.乐队将到亚特兰大的福克斯剧场演出。 do a gigThe comedian did her first gig at the Comedy Store in London. He has been touring the globe and rocking audiences since his humble beginnings at bar gigs in Boston. We were asked to play at a benefit gig for charity. I much prefer a small intimate show to a faceless stadium gig. Kelvin loves to heckle when he goes to comedy gigs. Musical performances anti-musical backspin cabaret cloth ears cloth-eared encore fog machine have cloth earsphrase headliner in concertidiom non-musical party mix post-concert recital set setlist stage invasion throat singing tin ear tin-eared gignoun[C] (JOB)informal a job: 工作;职务 get the gigShe's well qualified, but I think it's unlikely she will get the gig. He had a comfortable enough gig as coach at Yale. informal a job that is temporary, does not offer many hours, or may end at any time, usually involving working for yourself rather than for an employer: Instead of six-month gigs, workers are in search of stable jobs. gig workGig work refers to ways of earning income outside of traditional, long-term employer-employee relationships. gig workerGig workers are banding together in order to improve their working rights and pay. See also gig economy To get the gig at Saatchi & Saatchi, she wrote a 500-word essay about where she saw herself in 2024. He finally landed a steady gig as a busboy in an Italian restaurant. Her latest gig is trying to win voters on the election campaign trail. Estimates of the size of the gig workforce vary according to how gig work is defined. Types of employment admin administrative administrative assistant administratively at the coalfaceidiom job-share job-sharing jobbing jobless joblessness professionalism professionality qualified recertify redundancy virtual assistant well qualified WFH white-collar who's whoidiom gignoun[C] (VEHICLE)a light two-wheeled carriage pulled by one horse, used especially in the past: （尤指旧时的）双轮小马车 He had the horse and gig brought to the door. Science & Society Picture Library/SSPL/GettyImages a light, fast boat for rowing (= moving using long sticks called oars) or sailing: We had no sail in the gig, but the larger boat was fully equipped. Why does he not keep a horse and gig of his own? My good friend the Doctor treated me to a very pleasant ride in his gig. The gaudy painted gigs and steam boats greatly enlivened a very busy and interesting spectacle on the river. The captain ordered a boat to be lowered, but the gig capsized. Carriages & carts brougham buggy carriage carryall cart chaise chuckwagon coupe dogcart dray horse-drawn horsebox musher ox-drawn popemobile sedan chair surrey trishaw wagon wagon train You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Boats & sailing craft gignoun[C] (UNIT)a gigabyte: 千兆字节，吉字节（同 gigabyte） I don't get why people want to buy something that only has 14.5 gigs of useable memory. Computer concepts 2FA 2SV 3-D printing adaptive learning additive manufacturing haptics HCI hex hexadecimal hill climbing infection simulation stack tebibyte telematic telematics telerobotics teraflop texture word processing gig verb[ I ] uk /ɡɪɡ/ us /ɡɪɡ/-gg- (of a musician or group of musicians) to perform gigs: 做乐师 She gigged at bars for years before becoming famous.她出名前在酒吧里做了好几年乐师。 Playing music accompaniment accompany air guitar beat something out beatbox blow finger pick pick someone/something out play (something) by earidiom playability playable pump tap throw transposition ultra-smooth una corda unperformable unperformed gig | American Dictionarygig noun[ C ] us/ɡɪɡ/ a job, esp. one as a performer or one that lasts only a short time: Now many of his gigs as a singer-saxophonist are being put on hold. gig | Business Englishgig noun[ U ] informaluk /ɡɪɡ/us IT → gigabyte HR a job, often a temporary one: He landed a gig writing a new employee manual. Examples of giggig In addition to stereotypical patterns and expectations, men and women may differ in the way they arrange ad hoc gigs with each other. If you are not convinced, think of the development of jazz performers from their first solo to the most memorable gig in their career. They'd go to a gig with a library of prefabricated and tested code. How much money is generated at pub gigs by the music as opposed to the sale of alcohol or the attractiveness of bar staff? And after the gig, well, you know how it is on the road. And let us imagine that she is not asked to join them in a paid ad hoc gig the following week. That's always the reason used to marginalise us from gigs, that our music is so heavy that surely it will incite a riot. I decided in most cases not to take loudspeakers to the gig. Letters before venue, audience, etc. types are abbreviations used in the upcoming listing of gigs. The thing is, in a gig, whatever sort of gig it is, the audience has chosen to be there. It is one of the things you do, along with recording, gigs, festivals, playing in pubs, whatever. And that was probably the best gig of my career. In enthusiasts' recollections of the gigs at which death/thrash bands performed in the early 1990s, however, the genre's local salience becomes clearer. This was not a computer gig, but my voice sure sounded like a synthesizer! The notion of the pick-up gig will take on a new form. See all examples of gig These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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