Excavate
['ekskəveɪt] or ['ɛkskə'vet]
Definition
(verb.) remove the inner part or the core of; 'the mining company wants to excavate the hillside'.
(verb.) form by hollowing; 'Carnegie had a lake excavated for Princeton University's rowing team'; 'excavate a cavity'.
(verb.) find by digging in the ground; 'I dug up an old box in the garden'.
(verb.) recover through digging; 'Schliemann excavated Troy'; 'excavate gold'.
Inputed by Clinton--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To hollow out; to form cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging; as, to excavate a ball; to excavate the earth.
(v. t.) To form by hollowing; to shape, as a cavity, or anything that is hollow; as, to excavate a canoe, a cellar, a channel.
(v. t.) To dig out and remove, as earth.
Editor: Luke
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Hollow, hollow out, scoop out, dig out, cut out.
Editor: Peter
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Dig, hollow, trench, discover, deserter
ANT:Bury, fill_level, conceal, inter, inhume
Typed by Avery
Definition
v.t. to hollow or scoop out: to dig out.—ns. Excavā′tion act of excavating: a hollow or cavity made by excavating; Ex′cavator one who excavates: a machine used for excavating.
Checked by Debs
Examples
- When a large quantity of water is desired, strong machines drill into the ground and excavate an opening into which a wide pipe can be lowered. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- On May 4, 1904, when the United States took charge, it was estimated that there was left to excavate 150,000,000 cubic yards. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- An English Company is going to excavate Ephesus--and then! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- 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.
- Yuan Chwang gives an interesting account of a great Buddhist university at Nalanda, where ruins have quite recently been discovered and excavated. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Excavated earth is removed in a similar manner. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- This ore could be excavated very cheaply by means of improved mining facilities, and transported at low cost to lake ports. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The pipe is lowered into contact with the bottom to be excavated and the material is pumped into hopper barges or into a hopper-well in the dredge itself. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This figure would also rest on the basis of using in the mixture the gravel excavated on the site. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The material excavated consisted largely of rock and formed one of the hugest engineering problems in the world’s history. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- There have been about 1,000 patents granted for bridges, about 2,500 for excavating apparatus, and about 1,500 for hydraulic engineering. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- This dredge is the only one found satisfactory in excavating rock. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Great gangs of men were employed in excavating canals, in making railway cuttings and embankments, and the like. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It rows, it pumps, it excavates, it carries, it draws, it lifts, it hammers, it spins, it weaves, it prints. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Editor: Miles