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Jig vs Agree - What's the difference?

jig | agree |

As verbs the difference between jig and agree

is that jig is to move briskly, especially as a dance while agree is .

As a noun jig

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

jig

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (music) A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.
  • 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
  • * 2012 , Tom Lamont, How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world'' (in ''The Daily Telegraph , 15 November 2012)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/nov/15/mumford-sons-biggest-band-world]
  • Soon Marshall is doing an elaborate foot-to-foot jig , and then they're all bounding around. Shoulder dips. Yee-ha faces. It's an impromptu hoedown.
  • A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team.
  • (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.
  • 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 .
  • (mining) An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.
  • (obsolete) A light, humorous piece of writing, especially in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad.
  • * (rfdate) Beaumont and Fletcher
  • A jig shall be clapped at, and every rhyme / Praised and applauded.
  • (obsolete) A trick; a prank.
  • * (rfdate) Beaumont and Fletcher
  • Is't not a fine jig , / A precious cunning, in the late Protector?

    Derived terms

    * the jig is up * dance the hempen jig

    Verb

  • To move briskly, especially as a dance.
  • The guests were jigging around on the dancefloor
  • (fishing) To fish with a jig.
  • To sing to the tune of a jig.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Jig off a tune at the tongue's end.
  • To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.
  • (Ford)
  • (mining) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve.
  • To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.
  • agree

    English

    Verb

  • To harmonize in opinion, statement, or action; to be in unison or concord; to be or become united or consistent; to concur.
  • all parties agree in the expediency of the law.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1594
  • , author=Thomas Lodge , title=The wounds of civil war: Lively set forth in the true tragedies of Marius and Scilla , page=46 , passage=You know that in so great a state as this, Two mightie foes can never well agree .}}
  • * (rfdate) Shakespeare
  • If music and sweet poetry agree .
  • * (rfdate) Mark xiv. 56.
  • Their witness agreed not together.
  • * (rfdate) Sir T. Browne
  • The more you agree together, the less hurt can your enemies do you.
  • To yield assent; to accede;—followed by to.
  • to agree to an offer, or to opinion.
  • (transitive, UK, Irish) To yield assent to; to approve.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1666
  • , author=Samuel Pepys , title=The Diary of Samuel Pepys , page=88 , passage=... and there, after a good while in discourse, we did agree a bargain of £5,000 with Sir Roger Cuttance for my Lord Sandwich for silk, cinnamon, ...}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=2005
  • , author=Paddy McNutt , title=Law, economics and antitrust: towards a new perspective , page=59 , passage=The essential idea is that parties should enter the market, choose their contractors, set their own terms and agree a bargain.}}
  • * 2011 April 3, John Burke, in The Sunday Business Post :
  • Bishops agree sex abuse rules
  • To make a stipulation by way of settling differences or determining a price; to exchange promises; to come to terms or to a common resolve; to promise.
  • * (rfdate) Matt. v. 25.
  • Agree with thine adversary quickly.
  • * (rfdate) Matt. xx. 13.
  • Didst not thou agree with me for a penny ?
  • To be conformable; to resemble; to coincide; to correspond.
  • the picture does not agree with the original; the two scales agree exactly.
  • To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well.
  • the same food does not agree with every constitution.
  • (grammar) To correspond to in gender, number, case, or person.
  • (legal) To consent to a contract or to an element of a contract.
  • Usage notes

    * This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . See * The transitive usage could be considered as just an omission of to'' or ''upon . * US and Canadian English do not use the transitive form. Thus "they agreed on a price" or "they agreed to the conditions" are used in North America but not "they agreed a price" or "they agreed the conditions".

    Synonyms

    * assent, concur, consent, acquiesce, accede, engage, promise, stipulate, contract, bargain, correspond, harmonize, fit, tally, coincide, comport

    Antonyms

    * disagree

    Derived terms

    * disagree * disagreement

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