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# ig

«ig» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **short for Instagram, a social media app for photos and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

abbreviation (IG); fragment (ig)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (slang, abbreviation) IG is short for Instagram, a social media app for photos and videos. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/ig/#m1)

2) (texting) «ig» can be short for «I guess». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/ig/#m2)

3) (abbreviation) IG can stand for Inspector General, a person who checks that an organisation follows the rules. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/ig/#m3)

4) (fragment) «ig» is also a word part, as in «igloo» or «pig», and «Ig» is in «Ig Nobel Prize», a joke prize for funny real science. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/ig/#m4)

5) (biology) Ig is short for immunoglobulin, an antibody. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/ig/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life teens say «Are you on IG?» meaning Instagram. In online safety lessons, social media like IG has age limits (usually 13+), and you should keep accounts private and not share personal details. In texting, «ig» shows an unsure answer. The Ig Nobel Prizes celebrate science that makes people laugh, then think.

### examples

- Hugo Winckler (Die Babylonische Kullur, Lei[ /.ig 190i (P. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/ig/#x1)
- My big sister posted a photo on IG. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/ig/#x2)
- «Are you coming to the park?» — «ig» (I guess). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/ig/#x3)
- You must be 13 to have an IG account. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/ig/#x4)
- The Ig Nobel Prize once went to a study of why woodpeckers don't get headaches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/ig/#x5)
- The IG report checked how the money was spent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/ig/#x6)
- The doctor tested her Ig levels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/ig/#x7)

### note

Not an ordinary English word but an abbreviation or fragment, so context tells which. IG for Instagram is usually written in capitals; «ig» for «I guess» is texting slang, not for school writing.

### In the corpora

- [Banana skins are slippery because of a gel on the inside; scientists who measured it won the joke Ig Nobel Prize in 2014.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ig» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/ig/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.