Conceert vs Gig - What's the difference?
conceert | gig |
(informal, music) A performing engagement by a musical group; or, generally, any job or role for a musician or performer.
(informal, by extension) Any job; especially one that is temporary; or alternately, one that is very desirable.
A two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage.
* 1967 , William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner , Vintage 2004, p. 77:
(archaic) A forked spear for catching fish, frogs, or other small animals.
(South England) A six-oared sea rowing boat commonly found in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
(US, military) A demerit received for some infraction of military dress or deportment codes.
To fish or catch with a gig, or fish spear.
To engage in musical performances.
To make fun of; to make a joke at someone's expense, often condescending.
(US, military) To impose a demerit for an infraction of a dress or deportment code.
(colloquial, computing) A gigabyte.
As a noun gig is
gig (performing engagement by a musical group, usually used when referring to events with small audience and contemporary music such as rock or punk).conceert
Not English
Conceert has no English definition. It may be misspelled.gig
English
Etymology 1
Akin to Old Norse .Noun
(en noun)- I caught one of the Rolling Stones' first gigs in Richmond .
- Hey, when are we gonna get that hotel gig again?
- Our guitar player had another gig so we had to get a sub.
- I had this gig as a file clerk but it wasn't my style so I left .
- Hey, that guy's got a great gig over at the bike shop. He hardly works all day!
- the room grew stifling warm and vapor clung to the windowpanes, blurring the throng of people still milling outside the courthouse, a row of tethered gigs and buggies, distant pine trees in a scrawny, ragged grove.
- I received gigs for having buttons undone.
Verb
- The Stones were gigging around Richmond at the time
- His older cousin was just gigging him about being in love with that girl from school.
- His sergeant gigged him for an unmade bunk.
Etymology 2
A shortening of (gigabyte).Noun
(en-noun)- This picture is almost a gig ; don't you wanna resize it?
- How much music does it hold?'' ''A hundred and twenty gigs .
