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Definition: Ig

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.[Wordnet].

Source: WordNet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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"Ig" is a common misspelling or typo for: it, if, big, IV, fig, pig, dig, gig, gin, kg, rig, wig, GI, jig, IGG, IgA, IB, tig, Mig, zig, CIG, Sig, IDG, IGM, NIG, lig, IgE, IGY, Igu, IRG, IBG, IGV, IGP, IGF.

Date "Ig" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1620. (references)

Specialty Definition: Ig

Domain Definition
Administration Inspector General (a.k.a. OIG). (references)
Aerospace 1: Instrumentation Group. (references)
  2: Instrument Ground. (references)
  3: Institute of Geography. (references)
  4: Igloo. (references)
  5: Inner Gimbal. (references)
  6: Inertial Guidance. (references)
Census Designation for the (Inspector General). (references)
Health Immune globulin. (references)
Military 1: Intelligence Group. (references)
  2: Inspector General. (references)
  3: Inspector General (Army). (references)
  4: Inspector General. (references)
Security FEMA Office of Inspector General. (references)
Technology 1: Interoperability Group. (references)
  2: Interagency Group. (references)
  3: Installation Guide. (references)
  4: Implementation Guide. (references)
  5: Image Generator. (references)

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Common Expressions: Ig

Expressions Definition
American IG American I G is the name of a company, and it owes its genesis to a German business conglomerate, namely, Inter-nationale Gesellschaft Farbenindustrie A G, or I G Farben, in short. The business and the industrial empire, which the “I G” controlled and commanded has been described as “a state within a state”. (references)
IG Culture IG Culture is a London musician and performer best known as a pioneer of the broken beat movement. He first became known as a member of the hip-hop duo Dodge City Productions in 1990. After the demise of that outfit, he founded an independent record label One Drop Interouter which released four albums. Later, he worked with the People and founded the Main Squeeze labels. (references)
IG Farben Building The vast I.G. Farben Building (in German, I.G. Farben Gebäude, also I.G. Farben Hochhaus) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, began its history as the corporate headquarters of the industrial force behind Hitler's Third Reich. (references)
IG Farben Trial The United States of America vs. Carl Krauch, et. al. or the IG Farben Trial was the sixth of the twelve trials for war crimes the U.S. authorities held in their occupation zone in Germany (Nuremberg) after the end of World War II. (references)
IG Lancer droids IG Lancer droids are a fictional type of droid inhabiting the Star Wars universe. (references)
IG Metall IG Metall (Industriegewerkschaft Metall - German Metalworkers' Union) is the dominant metalworkers' union in Germany. Analysts of German labor relations consider it a major trend-setter in national bargaining. As a metalworkers' union, it represents the labor of the auto industry. Significantly, IG Metall represents both blue- and white-collar workers. (references)

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Specialty Expressions: Ig

Expressions Domain Definition
NGN IG Art Next Generation Network Implementation Group. (references)

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Ig

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry Source Expression Field
IG Dutch Intrinsiek getteren Computing, Electrical Engineering
IG English Industrial Group Industry
IG Italian Assorbimento metallico intrinseco Computing, Electrical Engineering
Ig. English Igneous N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Extended Definition: Ig


IG

IG, Ig, or ig may mean:

Biology:

Places:

  • Ig, a town and a municipality in Slovenia
  • IG postcode area, a group of postcode districts around Ilford, England

Terms:

  • Inspector General (civilian or military administration), a high ranking official charged with the mission to inspect and report on some bodies in his field of competency
  • Igbo language, the official language of Nigeria (ISO 639 alpha-2, ig)
  • Insulated glass
  • Image Generator, the out-the-window display generation computer for flight simulators

Companies:

  • IG, the IATA code for Meridiana airline
  • IG Webs, a Huntsville, Alabama Premier website design company
  • IG Farben, a German industrial conglomerate
  • IG Group, a UK speculative investment company
  • iG - internet Generation, a Brazilian internet service provider
  • Production I.G, a famous Japanese anime company

Games:

  • Imperial Guard, from the tabletop strategy game, Warhammer 40,000 Universe
  • Imperium Galactica, a 1997 PC CD-ROM game by Hungary-based Digital Reality
  • Insomniac Games, an online slang term used by members of its community
  • Instagib, a mutator in various first person shooter games such as Unreal Tournament, Unreal Tournament 2003, and Unreal Tournament 2004
  • In Game, typically meaning the person has a character in an MMORPG, another online game, or just that they are in a game

Other:

  • Ig Nobel Prize, a parody of the Nobel Prize
  • Inspector Gadget, a cartoon television show and movie
  • Italian Greyhound, a breed of dog
  • IG International Gangsters, a group of Singaporean/Russian/Canadian gangsters based in Tokyo, Japan
  • Islamic Group (Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya), a militant Egyptian Islamist movement
  • Inverse gamma distribution, a common continuous distribution in Statistics
  • iGoogle, Google's personalized homepage
  • Indigo Girls, a folk/rock duo from the United States
  • Inscriptiones Graecae, a collection of ancient greek sources

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "IG". Image Credit.



Topics by Level of Interest: Ig

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
List of Ig Nobel Prize winners 61     American IG 5
IG Farben Building 45     Cherno More IG Varna 10
IG Farben 38     IG 5
IG Group 27     Ig (Slovenia) 11
IG Farben Trial 20     IG Bauen-Agrar-Umwelt 5
IG postcode area 19     IG Bergbau, Chemie, Energie 6
Ig Nobel Prize 11     IG Culture 5
Ig (Slovenia) 11     IG Farben 38
Cherno More IG Varna 10     IG Farben Building 45
IG Metall 10     IG Farben Trial 20
Strasbourg IG 8     IG Group 27
IG Bergbau, Chemie, Energie 6     IG Metall 10
American IG 5     Ig Nobel Prize 11
IG 5     IG postcode area 19
IG Culture 5     List of Ig Nobel Prize winners 61
IG Bauen-Agrar-Umwelt 5     Strasbourg IG 8

Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).

"Ig" is a common misspelling or typo for: it, if, big, IV, fig, pig, dig, gig, gin, kg, rig, wig, GI, jig, IGG, IgA, IB, tig, Mig, zig, CIG, Sig, IDG, IGM, NIG, lig, IgE, IGY, Igu, IRG, IBG, IGV, IGP, IGF.

Synonyms: Ig
Position Synonyms (sorted by strength)

Noun

immunoglobulin.
Consider also: antibody, spurn, globulin, immunoglobulins.

Verb

ignore, overlook, contemn, cut, despise, dismiss, disobey, disparage, dissemble, drop, elide, fail, flout.
Consider also: abase, defy, depreciate, denigrate, belittle, carve, chop, deprecate, droop, derogate, abandon, abort, disband, discard, fade, feign, shed, shorten.

Adjective

slight.

Other

disregard, neglect, discount, disdain.

Expression

immune gamma globulin, immune globulin, immune serum globulin.
Consider also: cut down, dispense with.
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Translations: Ig

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Hanguk Mal 이그노벨상 (Ig Nobel Prize). Additional references: Hanguk Mal, Korea, South, Korea, ig. (volunteer & more translations)
Hanguohua 이그노벨상 (Ig Nobel Prize). Additional references: Hanguohua, Korea, South, Korea, ig. (volunteer & more translations)
Hebrew פרס איג נובל (Ig Nobel Prize), אי גה פארבן (IG Farben). Additional references: Hebrew, Israel, ig. (volunteer & more translations)
Ivrit פרס איג נובל (Ig Nobel Prize), אי גה פארבן (IG Farben). Additional references: Ivrit, Israel, ig. (volunteer & more translations)
Japanese イグノーベル賞受賞者の一覧 (List of Ig Nobel Prize winners), イグノーベル賞 (Ig Nobel Prize), イーゲー・ファルベン社 (IG Farben), Ig受容体 (Ig receptor). Additional references: Japanese, Japan, Taiwan, ig. (volunteer & more translations)
Korean 이그노벨상 (Ig Nobel Prize). Additional references: Korean, Korea, South, Korea, ig. (volunteer & more translations)
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