Excavation
[ekskə'veɪʃ(ə)n] or [,ɛkskə'veʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the act of digging; 'there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton'.
(noun.) a hole in the ground made by excavating.
Inputed by Adeline--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.
(n.) A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping.
(n.) An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel.
(n.) The material dug out in making a channel or cavity.
Editor: Tamara
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Excavating.[2]. Cutting, cavity, hollow.
Checked by Bryant
Examples
- The one greatest undertaking of the whole excavation was the Gaillard Cut. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The cut is nine miles long, 300 feet wide, 272 feet greatest depth and required the excavation of 100,000,000 cubic yards of material. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- After a ring of iron lining has been erected within the tail of the shield, excavation is carried out ahead. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They met in the little ditch encircling the tumulus--the original excavation from which it had been thrown up by the ancient British people. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The first scraps of this skull were found in an excavation for road gravel in Sussex. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Coming up again to the marsh level out of this excavation,--for the rude path lay through it,--I saw a light in the old sluice-house. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The amphitheatre, like all I had ever seen upon Barsoom, was built in a large excavation. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- When sufficient excavation has been taken out, the jacks are again extended, thus pushing the shield ahead, and another ring of iron is erected as before. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Tarzan dropped to the ground and commenced to examine the earth about the excavation. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Nor do we find such excavations beside the barrows. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A private expedition to make excavations among the ruined cities of Central America is, it seems, about to sail from Liverpool. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Mo dern excavations have demonstrated that the sides or the corners of the temples and palaces of Assyria and Babylonia were directed to the four cardinal points of the compass. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- For surface excavations in solid earth the Lidgerwood Cableway is an important and labor saving device. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
Edited by Andrea