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# gig

«gig» in Mova's school dictionary: **A live music show or performance by a band or comedian:…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a gig, gigs); verb (gig, gigs, gigged, gigging — informal)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (informal) A live music show or performance by a band or comedian: We went to a gig. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gig/#m1)

2) (informal) A job, especially a short or one-off one: a summer gig. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gig/#m2)

3) (informal) Short for gigabyte: a 64-gig phone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gig/#m3)

4) (old) A light two-wheeled carriage pulled by one horse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gig/#m4)

5) (verb, informal) To play live music shows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gig/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday talk teenagers go to gigs and musicians «play a gig»; adults talk about «the gig economy» — work done as many small paid jobs; in computing «gig» = gigabyte. Phrases: «play a gig», «go to a gig», «a paid gig», «gig economy».

### examples

- My brother's band is playing its first gig on Friday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gig/#x1)
- We went to a gig at the town hall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gig/#x2)
- Mum got a gig painting a mural. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gig/#x3)
- This tablet has 128 gigs of storage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gig/#x4)
- The comedian had a gig in Dublin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gig/#x5)
- In the old story, the doctor drove a pony and gig. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gig/#x6)

### note

Informal. Plural «gigs». «Gig» for a computer measure is short for gigabyte (GB). In maths, «a 64-gig phone with 20 gigs used» leaves 44 gigs.

### Trees and pragmatics

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