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Look up: pig

  1. Pig
    generic term, usually applied to immature swine
    Found on http://cal.vet.upenn.edu/swine/abc.html

  2. Pig
    The pig was a British measurement of ballast equal to 56 lbs.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  3. Pig
    The pig (hog) is a hoofed mammal of the genus Sus, of the suidae family. The head is prolonged into a pointed snout. The feet have four toes. The skin is very thick and covered with stiff bristles. Pigs are very alert and inquisitive animals. The meat pork is obtained from pigs.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  4. Pig
    Pig is slang for a policeman/woman.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  5. pig
    [n] - a crude block of metal (lead or iron) poured from a smelting furnace 2. [v] - live like a pig, in squalor
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  6. Pig
    A big fish. Paul Lobley often catches a few pigs at Port mulgrave
    Found on http://www.whitbyseaanglers.co.uk/rock-f

  7. pig
    1. a scraping tool that is forced through a pipeline or flow line to clean out accumulations of wax, scale, and debris from the walls of the pipe. It travels with the flow of product in the line, cleaning the pipe walls by means of blades or brushes affixed to it. Also called a line scraper or a go-devil. 2. a batching cylinder with neoprene or plastic cups on either end and used to separate different products traveling in the same pipeline. 3. a neoprene displacement spheroid, automatically launched and received, used to displace liquid hydrocarbons from natural gas pipelines. 4. in hydrostatic testing of a pipeline, a scraper used inside the line to push air out ahead of the test water and to push water out after the test. v: to force a device called a pig through a pipeline or a flow line for the purpose of cleaning the interior walls of the pipe, separating different products, or displacing fluids.
    Found on http://www.workover.co.uk/og/p.htm

  8. PIG
    A device used for cleaning a pipeline or separating two liquids being moved down the pipeline. Intelligent pigs are fitted with sensors allowing measurement of corrosion and identification of pipeline defects.
    Found on http://www.contractorsunlimited.co.uk/gl

  9. pig
    an animal of the porcine species,of any age,kept for breeding or fattening Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries • an ingot of virgin or secondary metal(as rejected castings and scrap)to be remelted for use.In english the term 'pig' is widely used and includes iron and non-ferrous materials cast into sand or metal moulds provided that it is intended fo...
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  10. Pig
    Pig noun A piggin. [ Written also pigg .]
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/86

  11. Pig
    Pig noun [ Confer Dutch big , bigge , LG. bigge , also Danish pige girl, Swedish piga , Icelandic pīka .] 1. The young of swine, male or female; also, any swine; a hog. 'Two pigges in a poke.' Chaucer. 2. (Zoology) Any wild species of the genus Sus and related genera. 3. [ Confer Sow a ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/86

  12. Pig
    Pig transitive verb & i. [ imperfect & past participle Pigged ; present participle & verbal noun Pigging .] 1. To bring forth (pigs); to bring forth in the manner of pigs; to farrow. 2. To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/86

  13. pig
    1. The young of swine, male or female; also, any swine; a hog. 'Two pigges in a poke.' ... 2. <zoology> Any wild species of the genus Sus and related genera. ... 3. [Cf. Sow a channel for melted iron] An oblong mass of cast iron, lead, or other metal. See Mine pig, under Mine. ... 4. One who is hoggish; a greedy person. Masked pig. ... A nickname ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  14. pig
    noun a crude block of metal (lead or iron) poured from a smelting furnace
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  15. Pig
    `Pigs`, also called `hogs` or` swine`, are ungulates. Native to Eurasia, they are collectively grouped under the genus `Sus` within the Suidae family. Despite pigs' reputation for gluttony, and another reputation for dirtiness, a lesser known quality is their intelligence. The nearest living relatives of the swine family are the peccaries.
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig

  16. Pig
    • (n.) An oblong mass of cast iron, lead, or other metal. See Mine pig, under Mine. • (v. t. & i.) To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed. • (n.) Any wild species of the genus Sus and related genera. • (n.) The young of swine, male or female; also, any swine; a hog. • (v. t. & i.) To bring forth (pigs); to bring fo...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  17. pig
    (from the article `livestock farming`) Pigs are relatively easy to raise indoors or outdoors, and they can be slaughtered with a minimum of equipment because of their moderate size ( meat ... ...animals kept on farms show how widely they enter into farming: sheep have a special concentration in Great Britain and the Balkan countries, an...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/66

  18. pig
    (from the article `iron processing`) ...channel connected at right angles to a number of shorter channels. The whole arrangement resembled a sow suckling her litter, and so the lengths ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/66

  19. pig
    wild or domestic swine, a mammal of the Suidae family. In Britain, the term pig refers to all domestic swine; in the United States, to younger swine ... [1 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/66

  20. pig
    1. domestic swine
    2. a coarse obnoxious person
    3. (informal) uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
    4. a crude block of metal (lead or iron) poured from a smelting furnace

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  21. pig
    pig: see swine.
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A09174


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23 November 2009

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At sixteen minutes past five on 23rd November 1963, a British television institution was born. Doctor Who would go on to become the longest-running science-fiction programme in the world, eventually spawning twenty six seasons of adventures from 1963 to 1989. In total, eight actors have played the part of Gallifrey's most famous Time Lord. From the very first - William Hartnell in 1963 - to the very last - Paul McGann, in the 1996 TV Movie - the Doctor has wandered through time and space in his trusty time machine, an old type-40 TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimensions in Space). Although appearing to be nothing more than a battered blue police box, it is in fact vastly bigger on the inside than on the outside, and always departs with its familiar wheezing, groaning sound. read more

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