Jig vs. Fixture — What's the Difference?

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).

Something securely fixed in place.

Any of various lively dances in triple time.

Something attached as a permanent appendage, apparatus, or appliance

The music for such a dance. Also called gigue.

(Law) An item of personal property that is physically attached to a property and becomes part of it, as a machine that is installed.

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

One that is invariably present in and long associated with a place

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

The act or process of fixing.

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

The condition of being fixed.

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

(legal) Something that is fixed in place, especially a permanent appliance or other item of personal property that is considered part of a house and is sold with it; compare fitting, furnishing.

Used as a disparaging term for a black person.

A regular patron of a place or institution; a person constantly present at a certain place.

To dance or play a jig.

A lighting unit; a luminaire.

To move or bob up and down jerkily and rapidly.

A scheduled match.

To operate a jig.

A state that can be recreated, used as a baseline for running software tests.

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

A work-holding or support device used in the manufacturing industry.

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

(transitive) To furnish with, as, or in a fixture.

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

To schedule (a match).

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

That which is fixed or attached to something as a permanent appendage; as, the fixtures of a pump; the fixtures of a farm or of a dwelling, that is, the articles which a tenant may not take away.

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.

State of being fixed; fixedness.

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

Anything of an accessory character annexed to houses and lands, so as to constitute a part of them. This term is, however, quite frequently used in the peculiar sense of personal chattels annexed to lands and tenements, but removable by the person annexing them, or his personal representatives. In this latter sense, the same things may be fixtures under some circumstances, and not fixtures under others.

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

A object firmly fixed in place (especially in a household)

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.

A regular patron;

(mining) An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.

The quality of being fixed in place

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

The act of putting something in working order again

(obsolete) A trick; a prank.

A black person.

To move briskly, especially as a dance.

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

(fishing) To fish with a jig.

To sing to the tune of a jig.

To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.

(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