Dig
[dɪg] or [dɪɡ]
Definition
(noun.) the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow; 'she gave me a sharp dig in the ribs'.
(noun.) a small gouge (as in the cover of a book); 'the book was in good condition except for a dig in the back cover'.
(noun.) the site of an archeological exploration; 'they set up camp next to the dig'.
(verb.) turn up, loosen, or remove earth; 'Dig we must'; 'turn over the soil for aeration'.
(verb.) create by digging; 'dig a hole'; 'dig out a channel'.
(verb.) thrust down or into; 'dig the oars into the water'; 'dig your foot into the floor'.
(verb.) remove, harvest, or recover by digging; 'dig salt'; 'dig coal'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, open, or loosen, as if with a spade.
(v. t.) To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.
(v. t.) To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well.
(v. t.) To thrust; to poke.
(v. i.) To work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve.
(v. i.) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
(v. i.) To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
(n.) A thrust; a punch; a poke; as, a dig in the side or the ribs. See Dig, v. t., 4.
(v. t.) A plodding and laborious student.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Excavate, delve, scoop, SCRATCH, hollow out.[2]. Break up (with a spade, hoe, &c.).
v. n. Delve, work with a spade, hoe, &c.
n. [1]. [Low.] Punch, poke, thrust.[2]. [Colloquial.] Innuendo, insinuation, oblique hint, sly remark.[3]. [At colleges, U. S.] Plodding student.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See DELVE]
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Definition
v.t. to excavate: to turn up the earth: to cultivate with a spade: to poke or thrust as one's elbow into another's side or spurs into a horse.—v.i. to till the ground; to occupy one's self in digging; (U.S. slang) to study hard:—pr.p. dig′ging; pa.t. and pa.p. dug (B.) digged.—n. a thrust a poke: (U.S. slang) a hard student.—adj. Dig′gable that may be dug.—n. Dig′ger a person or animal that digs: a machine for digging as a steam-digger.—n.pl. Dig′gings places where mining is carried on esp. for gold: (slang orig. American) lodgings rooms.—Dig in to cover over by digging: to work hard; Dig out (U.S. slang) to decamp.—Digger Indians degraded Indian tribes of California and Nevada who live by digging roots.
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Examples
- You didn't think your Cap'n was a-goin' to dig with a shovel, did you? Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- I'd dig the ground and grow potatoes. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- He was going to dig, with whatsoever object, for he tucked up his cuffs and spat on his hands, and then went at it like an old digger as he was. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Near the center of the clearing, and not far from the drum, or altar, he commenced to dig. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Sherman at once ordered his prisoners to the front, moving them in a compact body in advance, to either explode the torpedoes or dig them up. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- These transplanters will dig the plant trench, distribute the fertiliser, set the plant, pack the earth and water the plant, automatically. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I cut brush and Aymo and Piani dug out in front and between the wheels. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Now he dug with it in a steady, almost machinelike desperation. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- In such regions, there is an accumulation of water, and a well dug there would have an abundant supply of water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- They have dug a hole, and they have found things like flowerpots upside down, Mis'ess Yeobright; and inside these be real charnel bones. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The precipice on the opposite side of the canyon is well perforated with the small holes they dug in the rock to live in. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The wheels only dug in deeper. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The holes, which usually are about a foot deep, are made by the crab persistently digging up and carrying away little masses of mud or sand. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The men outside knew we were in there, and they had a great time digging us out and getting air to us. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Thus the digging they did counted in making a depression to stand in, and increased the elevation in front of them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It was only after all this preliminary sanitation was accomplished that the real work of digging the canal could go forward with any hope of success. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In it is a marble chair which Helena used to sit in while she superintended her workmen when they were digging and delving for the True Cross. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- She afterwards continued her work, whilst the young man went into the garden, and appeared busily employed in digging and pulling up roots. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- In operation it is lowered with open jaws, and by its own weight digs into the ground that is to be excavated. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He lives in a den which he digs for himself in the ground. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This is thrown up by the prairie-dog when he digs out his subterranean home. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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