Jig vs Agree - What's the difference?
jig | agree |
(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.
* 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]
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.
(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
(obsolete) A trick; a prank.
* (rfdate) Beaumont and Fletcher
To move briskly, especially as a dance.
(fishing) To fish with a jig.
To sing to the tune of a jig.
* Shakespeare
To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.
(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.
To harmonize in opinion, statement, or action; to be in unison or concord; to be or become united or consistent; to concur.
* {{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
* (rfdate) Mark xiv. 56.
* (rfdate) Sir T. Browne
To yield assent; to accede;—followed by to.
(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 :
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.
* (rfdate) Matt. xx. 13.
To be conformable; to resemble; to coincide; to correspond.
To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well.
(grammar) To correspond to in gender, number, case, or person.
(legal) To consent to a contract or to an element of a contract.
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)- they danced a jig
- 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.
- Cutting circles out of pinewood is best done with a compass-style jig .
- A jig shall be clapped at, and every rhyme / Praised and applauded.
- Is't not a fine jig , / A precious cunning, in the late Protector?
Derived terms
* the jig is up * dance the hempen jigVerb
- The guests were jigging around on the dancefloor
- Jig off a tune at the tongue's end.
- (Ford)
agree
English
Verb
- all parties agree in the expediency of the law.
- If music and sweet poetry agree .
- Their witness agreed not together.
- The more you agree together, the less hurt can your enemies do you.
- to agree to an offer, or to opinion.
- Bishops agree sex abuse rules
- Agree with thine adversary quickly.
- Didst not thou agree with me for a penny ?
- the picture does not agree with the original; the two scales agree exactly.
- the same food does not agree with every constitution.