Fig vs. Jig — What's the Difference?

Any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Ficus, especially F. carica, native to the Mediterranean region and widely cultivated for its edible multiple fruit.

The jig (Irish: port, Scottish Gaelic: port-cruinn) is a form of lively folk dance in compound metre, as well as the accompanying dance tune. It first gained popularity in 16th-century Scotland and Northern England, and was quickly adopted on mainland Europe where it eventually became the final movement of the mature Baroque dance suite (the French gigue; Italian and Spanish giga).

The sweet, hollow, pear-shaped, multiple fruit of this plant, having many tiny seedlike fruits.

Any of various lively dances in triple time.

Any of several plants bearing similar fruit.

The music for such a dance. Also called gigue.

The fruit of such a plant.

A joke or trick. Used chiefly in the phrase The jig is up.

A trivial or contemptible amount

A typically metal fishing lure with one or more hooks, usually deployed with a jiggling motion on or near the bottom.

Dress; array

An apparatus for cleaning or separating crushed ore by agitation in water.

Physical condition; shape

A device for guiding a tool or for holding machine work in place.

To dress; to get oneself up a certain way.

Used as a disparaging term for a black person.

(obsolete) To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion.

To dance or play a jig.

(obsolete) To put into the head of, as something useless or contemptible.

To move or bob up and down jerkily and rapidly.

To develop, or cause (a soap) to develop, white streaks or granulations.

To operate a jig.

(intransitive) To move suddenly or quickly; rove about.

To bob or jerk (something) up and down or to and fro.

A fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics.

To machine (an object) with the aid of a jig.

The fruit of the fig tree, pear-shaped and containing many small seeds.

To separate or clean (ore) by shaking a jig.

A small piece of tobacco.

(music) A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.

The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; a whit.

A lively dance in 6/8 (double jig), 9/8 (slip jig) or 12/8 (single jig) time; a tune suitable for such a dance. By extension, a lively traditional tune in any of these time signatures. Unqualified, the term is usually taken to refer to a double (6/8) jig.

A raisin (dried grape)

A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team.

The Lady Finger banana, also known as the "fig banana". (Cultivar of Musa acuminata.)

(fishing) A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.

A small fruit tree (Ficus Carica) with large leaves, known from the remotest antiquity. It was probably native from Syria westward to the Canary Islands.

A device in manufacturing, woodworking, or other creative endeavors for controlling the location, path of movement, or both of either a workpiece or the tool that is operating upon it. Subsets of this general class include machining jigs, woodworking jigs, welders' jigs, jewelers' jigs, and many others.

The fruit of a fig tree, which is of round or oblong shape, and of various colors.

(mining) An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.

A small piece of tobacco.

(obsolete) A light, humorous piece of writing, especially in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad.

The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; - used in scorn or contempt.

(obsolete) A trick; a prank.

Figure; dress; array.

A black person.

To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion. See Fico.

To move briskly, especially as a dance.

To put into the head of, as something useless o contemptible.

To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks.

A diagram or picture illustrating textual material;

(fishing) To fish with a jig.

Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit

To sing to the tune of a jig.

A Libyan terrorist group organized in 1995 and aligned with al-Qaeda; seeks to radicalize the Libyan government; attempted to assassinate Qaddafi

To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.

Fleshy sweet pear-shaped yellowish or purple multiple fruit eaten fresh or preserved or dried

(mining) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve.

To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.

To skip school or be truant (Australia, Canadian Maritimes)

A light, brisk musical movement.

A light, humorous piece of writing, esp. in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad.

A piece of sport; a trick; a prank.

A trolling bait, consisting of a bright spoon and a hook attached.

A small machine or handy tool

To sing to the tune of a jig.

To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.

To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.

To dance a jig; to skip about.

To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks.

Music in three-four time for dancing a jig

Any of various old rustic dances involving kicking and leaping

Dance a quick dance with leaping and kicking motions