Rigid vs. Ridgid — Which is Correct Spelling?
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Which is correct: Rigid or Ridgid
How to spell Rigid?
Rigid
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Ridgid
Incorrect Spelling
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Rigid Definitions
Unable to bend or be forced out of shape; not flexible
A seat of rigid orange plastic
Not able to be changed or adapted
Rigid bureaucratic controls
A lorry which is not articulated.
Not flexible or pliant; stiff
A rigid material.
Not moving or flexing
Rigid muscles.
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Not changing or adjusting to different conditions or problems
A rigid thinker.
A rigid hierarchy.
Scrupulously or severely maintained or performed; rigorous or harsh
Rigid discipline.
Being an airship with a external frame made of rigid parts.
Stiff, rather than flexible.
Fixed, rather than moving.
Rigorous and unbending.
Uncompromising.
(aviation) An airship whose shape is maintained solely by an internal and/or external rigid structural framework, without using internal gas pressure to stiffen the vehicle (the lifting gas is at atmospheric pressure); typically also equipped with multiple redundant gasbags, unlike other types of airship.
The rigid could reach the greatest sizes and speeds of any airship, but was expensive to build and bulky to store. Rigids fell out of favor after the R101 and Hindenburg disasters made the type seem unsafe to the travelling public.
A bicycle with no suspension system.
Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible.
Upright beams innumerableOf rigid spears.
Hence, not lax or indulgent; severe; inflexible; strict; as, a rigid father or master; rigid discipline; rigid criticism; a rigid sentence.
The more rigid order of principles in religion and government.
Incapable of or resistant to bending;
A rigid strip of metal
A table made of rigid plastic
A palace guardsman stiff as a poker
Incapable of compromise or flexibility
Incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances;
A rigid disciplinarian
An inflexible law
An unbending will to dominate
Fixed and unmoving;
With eyes set in a fixed glassy stare
His bearded face already has a set hollow look
A face rigid with pain
Designating an airship or dirigible having a form maintained by a stiff unyielding frame or structure
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