a fat farm animal with a curly tail

A device with blades or brushes inserted in a pipeline for cleaning purposes. The pressure of the oil stream behind pushes the pig along the pipeline to clean out rust, wax, scale and debris. These de [..]

1 an animal with no fur and a curly tail kept by farmers for its meat. A female pig is called a sow and a young pig is called a piglet. The meat from a pig is called pork.Synonyms and related words [..]

1670s, "to huddle together," from pig (n.). Related: Pigged; pigging. To pig out "eat voraciously" attested by 1979.

probably from Old English *picg, found in compounds, further etymology unknown. Originally "young pig" (the word for adults was swine). Apparently related to Low German bigge, Dutch big (&qu [..]

Pig is a generic term signifying any independent, self-contained device, tool, or vehicle that is inserted into and moves through the interior of a pipeline for inspecting, dimensioning, or cleaning. These tools are commonly referred to as ‘pigs’ because of the occasional squealing noises that can be heard as they travel through the pipe. See Also: [..]

A colloquial term describing a container (usually lead or depleted uranium) used to ship or store radioactive materials. The thick walls of this shielding device protect the person handling the container from radiation. Large containers used for spent fuel storage are commonly called casks.

hog: domestic swine live like a pig, in squalor devour: eat greedily; "he devoured three sandwiches" slob: a coarse obnoxious person farrow: give birth; "sows fa [..]

v. To run very slowly on given hardware, said of software. Distinct from hog.

Professionally Instructed Gunman! Also someone new to a sniper platoon who is slayed like a pig when he screws up. (Sgt. Rock)

a mechanical projectile used for cleaning hose.

A cleaning device placed that is used to scrape residues from the inner wall of oil pipelines. A pig is pushed through the pipeline by the pressure of the oil flowing past. Pipelines can be equipped with pig launch sites and pig traps. These are points at which pigs can be introduced or removed from the pipeline.

A scraping tool forced through a flow line or pipeline to clean out wax or other deposits.

khazer (khazeyrim)

To dream of a fat, healthy pig, denotes reasonable success in affairs. If they are wallowing in mire, you will have hurtful associates, and your engagements will be subject to reproach. This dream will bring to a young woman a jealous and greedy companion though the chances are that he will be wealthy. See Hog.   

Noun. 1. A policeman/woman. Derog. [Early 1800s] 2. A glutton, a greedy person. 3. A slob, an unpleasantly dirty person. 4. A difficult or unpleasant situation or task. E.g."Cleaning all the wind [..]

though the pipeline. In addition, water may react with carbon dioxide or hydrogen sulphide in the gas stream to form acids, and with methane itself, under appropriate conditions, to form Hydrates

Equipment used to clean or flush out liquids and other accumulated and unwanted items from the inside of an oil or gas pipeline. It is inserted into the pipeline and carried along by the flow of oil o [..]

(i) A rough cast shape from the blast furnace, e.g. pig iron. (ii) Also the standard form in which lead is traded internationally and delivered on the LME.

A data flow language and parallel execution framework built on top of MapReduce. Internally, a compiler translates Apache Pig statements into a directed acyclic graph of MapReduce jobs, which are subm [..]

Pig Latin is a Hadoop-based language developed by Yahoo. It is relatively easy to learn and is adept at very deep, very long data pipelines (a limitation of SQL).

A plastic or leaded container that contains a vial of radioactive material.

(n) domestic swine(n) a coarse obnoxious person(n) a person regarded as greedy and pig-like(n) uncomplimentary terms for a policeman(n) mold consisting of a bed of sand in which pig iron is cast(n) a [..]

In the forefeet of pigs is a very small hole, which may be seen when the hair has been carefully removed. The tradition is that the legion of devils entered by these apertures. There are also round it [..]

A container usually made of lead or U 238 used to shield radioactive sources when not in use.

The domestic pig, a subspecies of Sus scrofa.

A common name used for the genus Cavia. The most common species is Cavia porcellus which is the domesticated Guinea pig used for Pets and Biomedical Research.

A piece of metal ballast.

A heavy mass of iron or lead.  

(aka. piglet) a young swine (usually weighing less than 120 lbs.)

Refers to a polypig, which is a bullet-shaped device made of hard rubber or similar material. This device is used to clean pipes. It is inserted in one end of a pipe, moves through the pipe under pres [..]

Scrum slang for someone who is responsible for doing a task on an active iteration.

A data flow language and execution framework for parallel computation.

1. Apparently a slang term for the Rook. There's even a saying to go along with it: Pigs on the 7th. 2. The Chess Glossary Team muttered something spiteful. They don't get it and think slang is being far too abused these days.

A device inserted into a pipeline and designed to be pushed along under the pressure of the pipeline's fluid. There are several different types, including those designed for pipeline inspection ( [..]

pig Device for cleaning a pipeline or separating two liquids being moved down pipeline. (Intelligent pig - fitted with sensors to check for corrosion or defects in pipelines.)

a piece of equipment that is inserted into a pipeline and is carried along by the flow of oil or gas; used to clean or monitor the internal condition of the pipeline or to mark an interface between tw [..]

A device that is inserted into a pipeline and pushed along by the flowing fluid to perform any number of functions, including cleaning, displacement, batching or internal inspection; gets its name fro [..]

A device designed to move through a pipeline for purposes of cleaning, gathering information, separating products, or batching shipments of the same product. A pig is usually propelled by gas or liquid pressure behind the pig. The name "pig" is said to have originated from the sound the device makes as it moves through the pipelin [..]

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. Further Reading

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The pig (Sus domesticus), often called swine, hog, or domestic pig when distinguishing from other members of the genus Sus, is an omnivorous, domesticated, even-toed, hoofed mammal. It is variously co [..]

The Pig (豬) or sometimes translated as the Boar is the twelfth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in Chinese zodiac, in relation to the Chinese calendar and system of horology, and paralleli [..]

Raymond Watts (also known by his former stage names Nainz, Nainz Watts and Ray Scaballero) is an English musician, the founding and sole member of the industrial music project PIG, sometimes written a [..]

Pig is a simple dice game first described in print in John Scarne in 1945. Players take turns to roll a single die as many times as they wish, adding all roll results to a running total, but losing th [..]

"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 [..]

"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 [..]

A pig is a mammal of the genus Sus. Pig, PIG, Pigs or PIGS may also refer to:

Pig is a 1998 experimental, psychological horror, short film directed by American underground film maker Nico B. and co-directed by deathrock pioneer Rozz Williams. The film stars Rozz Williams and J [..]

Apache Pig is a high-level platform for creating programs that run on Apache Hadoop. The language for this platform is called Pig Latin. Pig can execute its Hadoop jobs in MapReduce, Apache Tez, or A [..]

A pig is a mammal of the genus Sus. Pig, PIG, Pigs or PIGS may also refer to:

Pig is a 2011 American science fiction film written and directed by Henry Barrial and starring Rudolf Martin.

Pig is a 2010 horror film directed by Adam Mason starring Molly Black, Guy Burnet and Andrew Howard.