Look up: pig

1. Pig
   [short story] "Pig" is a macabre short story by Roald Dahl that was published in Dahl`s 1960 collection Kiss Kiss. The world it presents is one that is cruel and violent. It is a cautionary tale warning parents of the danger of ill-preparing a child for the dangers and realities of the great...
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2. Pig
   [song] "Pig" is a Dave Matthews Band song from the album Before These Crowded Streets. The song evolved from an earlier tune entitled "Don`t Burn the Pig", which was written about a television program Dave Matthews viewed in England where pigs were burned to test their reaction to pain. Afte...
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3. pig
   [n] - a crude block of metal (lead or iron) poured from a smelting furnace 2. [v] - live like a pig, in squalor
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4. Pig
   A big fish. Paul Lobley often catches a few pigs at Port mulgrave
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5. 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.
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6. 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.
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7. 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 in...
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8. Pig
   Pig noun A piggin. [ Written also pigg .]
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9. 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 ...
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10. 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...
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11. 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 i...
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12. pig
    noun a crude block of metal (lead or iron) poured from a smelting furnace
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13. 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. &bul...
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14. 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...
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15. 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 ...
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16. 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]
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17. PIG
    [elections] PIG is an electoral technique commonly employed in the United Kingdom, consisting of three steps: ...
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18. Pig
    [dice] Pig is a simple folk jeopardy dice game first described in print by John Scarne in 1945. As with many games of folk origin, Pig is played with many rule variations. Commercial variants of Pig include Pass the Pigs, Pig Dice, and Skunk. Pig is commonly used by mathematics teachers to t...
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19. Pig
    [musical project] Raymond Watts (also known as Nainz, Nainz Watts, and Ray Scaballero) is the founding and sole member of the post-industrial music project PIG, sometimes written as . Watts was an early member and periodic collaborator of KMFDM, and has been a visible part of the industrial ...
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20. Pig
    Pig is slang for a policeman/woman.
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21. Pig
    [zodiac] Hai (亥) is the twelfth sign of the Earthly Branches. Its animal representation is the Pig ( 豬). In Chinese culture, the pig is associated with fertility and virility. To bear children in the year of the pig is considered to be very fortunate, for they will be happy and honest. =...
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22. Pig
    Pig is slang for a policeman/woman.
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23. Pig
    A pig is any of the animals in the genus Sus, within the Suidae family of even-toed ungulates. Pigs include the domestic pig, its ancestor the wild boar, and several other wild relatives. Pigs are omnivores and are highly social and intelligent animals.{Citation needed|date=March 2012} ==Descriptio...
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24. pig
    
    • domestic swine
    • a coarse obnoxious person
    • (informal) uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
    • a crude block of metal (lead or iron) poured from a smelting furnace
    
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25. pig
    pig: see swine.
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