Word Finder - pig

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Any of several intelligent mammalian species of the genus Sus, having cloven hooves, bristles and a nose adapted for digging; especially the domesticated animal Sus scrofa.

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The man kept a pen with two pigs that he fed from carrots to cabbage.

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(specifically) A young swine, a piglet (contrasted with a hog, an adult swine).

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The edible meat of such an animal; pork.

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Some religions prohibit their adherents from eating pig.

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A light pinkish-red colour, like that of a pig (also called pig pink).

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Someone who overeats or eats rapidly and noisily.

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You gluttonous pig! Now that you've eaten all the cupcakes, there will be none for the party!

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A lecherous or sexist man.

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She considered him a pig as he invariably stared at her bosom when they talked.

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A dirty or slovenly person.

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He was a pig and his apartment a pigpen; take-away containers and pizza boxes in a long, moldy stream lined his counter tops.

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A very obese person.

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A police officer.

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The protester shouted, “Don't give in to the pigs!” as he was arrested.

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A difficult problem.

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Hrm... this one's a real pig: I've been banging my head against the wall over it for hours!

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A block of cast metal.

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After the ill-advised trade, the investor was stuck with worthless options for 10,000 tons of iron pig.

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The mold in which a block of metal is cast.

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The pig was cracked, and molten metal was oozing from the side.

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A device for cleaning or inspecting the inside of an oil or gas pipeline, or for separating different substances within the pipeline. Named for the pig-like squealing noise made by their progress.

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Unfortunately, the pig sent to clear the obstruction got lodged in a tight bend, adding to the problem.

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The general-purpose M60 machine gun, considered to be heavy and bulky.

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Unfortunately, the M60 is about twenty-four pounds and is very unbalanced. You try carrying the pig around the jungle and see how you feel.

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A simple dice game in which players roll the dice as many times as they like, either accumulating a greater score or losing previous points gained.

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(of swine) to give birth.

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The black sow pigged at seven this morning.

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To greedily consume (especially food).

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They were pigging on the free food at the bar.

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To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed.

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To clean (a pipeline) using a pig (the device).

If I promise not to act like a misogynist pig, would you have dinner with me?

Oh, what a pig I am! he repeated, flushing suddenly.

The custom is vouched for by travellers as still observed in Borneo, Burma, Uganda and elsewhere, the animal chosen being a pig or a fowl.

In 1894 the excess of imports over exports fell to 2,720,000, but by 1898 it had grown to 8,391,000, in consequence chiefly of the increased importation of coal, raw cotton and cotton thread, pig and cast iron, old iron, grease and oil-seeds for use in Italian industries.

The column headed bacon and hams indicates clearly enough that the imports of fresh meat did not displace those of preserved pig meat, for the latter expanded from 4,715,000 cwt.

He couldn't very well say, 'I really am that pig you pegged me for, just trying to hide it from you, babe'.

Of the fatted live weight of a pig 83% is butcher's carcase, and 91% of the increase from 100 to 200 lb is carcase.

In 2006, a pig was genetically engineered to produce healthy omega-3 fatty acids.

Is it some ill-fed village hound yielding to the instinct of the chase? or the lost pig which is said to be in these woods, whose tracks I saw after the rain?

Oh, what a pig I am, not to have written and to have given them such a fright!

The chief domestic animals are the camel, horse, ass, ox, buffalo (used both as a beast of burden and for riding), sheep with a short silky fleece, the goat and the pig, which last here reaches its southernmost limit.

The quantity of phosphorus in the pig iron is usually known accurately, and the dephosphorization takes place so regularly that the quantity of air which it needs can be foretold closely.

The pig iron should be as nearly free as possible from sulphur, because the removal of any large quantity of this injurious element in the process itself is both difficult and expensive.

The open-hearth process consists in making molten steel out of pig or cast iron and " scrap," i.e.

The " pig and ore " or " Siemens " variety of the process works chiefly by oxidation, the " pig and scrap " or " Siemens-Martin " variety chiefly by dilution, sometimes indeed by extreme dilution, as when Io parts of cast iron are diluted with 90 parts of scrap. Both varieties may be carried out in the basic and dephosphorizing way, i.e.

The charge may be melted down on the " open hearth " itself, or, as in the more advanced practice, the pig iron may be brought in the molten state from the blast furnace in which it is made.

The proportion of pig to scrap used depends chiefly on the relative cost of these two materials, but sometimes in part also on the carbon-content which the resultant steel is to have.

Thus part at least of the carbon which a high-carbon steel is to contain may be supplied by the pig iron from which it is made.

The length of the process increases with the proportion of pig used.

The common practice in the United States is to use about equal parts of pig and scrap, and here the usual length of a charge is about 112 hours.

The pig and ore process is held back, first by the large quantity of carbon, and usually of silicon and phosphorus, to be removed, and second by the necessary slowness of their removal.

For instance it lasts only about 82 hours when equal parts of pig and scrap are used, instead of the 112 hours of the basic process.

Thus the actual cost of conversion by the acid process is materially less than by the basic, but this difference is more than outweighed in most places by the greater cost of pig and scrap free enough from phosphorus to be used in the undephosphorizing acid process.

The advantage of this combination is that, by simplifying the conditions with which the composition of the pig iron has to comply, it makes the management of the blast furnace easier, and thus lessens the danger of making " misfit " pig iron, i.e.

But if the conversion is only begun in the converter and finished on the open-hearth, then there is no need of regulating the temperature in the converter closely, and variations in the silicon-content of the pig iron thus become almost harmless in this respect.

But if the silicon of the pig iron is removed by a preliminary treatment in the Bessemer converter, then its presence in the pig iron is harmless as regards the open-hearth process.

Hence the blast furnace process, thus freed from the hampering need of controlling accurately the silicon-content, can be much more effectively guided so as to prevent the sulphur from entering the pig iron.

Compared with the Bessemer process, which converts a charge of even as much as 20 tons of pig iron into steel in a few minutes, and the open-hearth process which easily treats charges of 75 tons, the crucible process is, of course, a most expensive one, with its little 80-lb charges, melted with great consumption of fuel because the heat is kept away from the metal by the walls of the crucible, themselves excellent heat insulators.

By rapidly stirring molten iron oxide into molten pig iron in a furnace shaped like a saucer, slightly inclined and turning around its axis, at a temperature but little above the melting-point of the metal itself, the phosphorus and silicon are removed rapidly, without removing much of the carbon, and by this means an extremely pure cast iron is made.

Of the two the cupola is very much the more economical of fuel, thanks to the direct transfer of„ heat from the burning coke to the pig iron with which it is in contact.

Increase in Production.-In 1810 the Unit d States made about 7%, and in 1830, 1850 and 1860 not far fr m io% of the world's production of pig iron, though, indeed, in 1820 their production was only about one-third as great as in 1810.

In this last year the United States production of pig iron was nearly 7 times, and that of Germany and Luxemburg nearly 5 times, that of 1880.

Ofthetotal production Engels of pig iron in 1905 amounting to over 10,000,000 tons, more than the half was produced in the Rhineland and Westphalia.

Exempt from duty were now only refuse, raw products, scientific instruments, ships and literary and artistic objects; forty-four articles notably beer, vinegar, sugar, herrings, cocoa, salt, fish oils, ether, alum and sodawere unaffected by the change, while duties were henceforth levied upon a large number of articles which had previously been admitted dtity free, such as pig iron, machines and locomotives, grain, building timber, tallow; horses, cattle and sheep; and, again, the tariff law further increased the duties leviable upon numerous other articles.

The Lincolnshire Curly Coated or Boston pig is a local breed of great size and capacity for producing pork.

The Large Black breed, which vies with the Large White breed for size, and is probably its superior as a bacon pig, has only since 1900 received national show-yard recognition; but there is ample evidence that, with its characteristic whole black colour with a mealy hue, length, fine hair and lop ear, the Large Black existed in the south of England for generations.

The Large Black Pig Society was incorporated in 1899.

The Berkshire is a black pig with a pinkish skin, and a little white on the nose, forehead, pasterns, and tip to the tail.

The Small Black or Black Suffolk was produced from the old Essex pig by crossing with the Neapolitan.

Originally a local breed in the districts around the Staffordshire town from which it takes its name, it is now extensively bred, and highly valued as a bacon pig.

It is a black pig like the Berkshire, but has short lop-ears, a more pointed, straight nose, a more compact body, and more white markings.

It is a breed of mixed blood, and is believed to have originated from the "Big China" pig - a large white hog with sandy spots, taken to Ohio in 1816, and blended with Irish graziers in 1839, and with a breed known as Bayfields, as well as with Berkshires.

In Iowa the Berkshire is a combined lard and bacon pig in high favour.

The Duroc Jersey or Duroc, of a red or cherry-red colour - not sandy or dark - is the most popular pig in Nebraska and equal to any other in Iowa.

It is of mixed origin and bears a strong family resemblance to the Lincolnshire curly-coated pig.

The labouring man's pig is his bank, and is fed on scraps, small potatoes and waste products.

From 3 to 5 lb of meal consumed results in an increase of i lb of live weight in a pig, which is the most economical meat producer on a farm.

Concentrated and digestible foods give best results, a pig has a small stomach.

The pig is rarely figured and was less and less tolerated as the Egyptians grew in ceremonial purity.

Among the domestic animals introduced are the ass and pig.