Venue vs Gig - What's the difference?
venue | gig |
A place, especially the one where a given event is to happen.
(legal) A neighborhood or near place; the place or county in which anything is alleged to have happened; also, the place where an action is laid.
* The twelve men who are to try the cause must be of the same venue where the demand is made. --.
(obsolete) A bout; a hit; a turn. See venew.
(sports) Sport venue: a stadium or similar building in which a sporting competition is held.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=November 10
, author=Jeremy Wilson
, title= England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report
, work=Telegraph
(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 nouns the difference between venue and gig
is that venue is a place, especially the one where a given event is to happen while 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).venue
English
(wikipedia venue)Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=With such focus from within the footballing community this week on Remembrance Sunday, there was something appropriate about Colchester being the venue for last night’s game. Troops from the garrison town formed a guard of honour for both sets of players, who emerged for the national anthem with poppies proudly stitched into their tracksuit jackets.}}
Usage notes
In certain cases, the court has power to change the venue, which is to direct the trial to be had in a different county from that where the venue is laid.Synonyms
See come, and confer venew, veney.Hyponyms
* stadium * arenagig
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 .