DIG vs EXCAVATE: NOUN
- A sarcastic, taunting remark; a gibe.
- An archaeological excavation.
- An act or an instance of digging a ball.
- A poke or thrust.
- An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- The act of digging
- The site of an archeological exploration
- The act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow
- Lodgings.
- A thrust; a punch; a poke: as, a dig in the ribs: often used figuratively of sarcasm and criticism.
- A diligent or plodding student.
- A small gouge (as in the cover of a book)
- A major grouping of unicellular eukaryotes, of the clade Excavata
DIG vs EXCAVATE: VERB
- Turn up, loosen, or remove earth
- Create by digging
- Remove the inner part or the core of
- Get the meaning of something
- Poke or thrust abruptly
- Work hard
- To uncover (something) by removing its covering.
- To remove part of (something) by scooping or digging it out.
- To make a hole in (something); to hollow.
- Find by digging in the ground
- Form by hollowing
- Remove the inner part or the core of
- Lay bare through digging
- Recover through digging
DIG vs EXCAVATE: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- To break up, turn over, or remove (earth or sand, for example), as with a shovel, spade, or snout, or with claws, paws or hands.
- To make or form by removing earth or other material.
- To prepare (soil) by loosening or cultivating.
- To obtain or unearth by digging.
- To obtain or find by an action similar to digging.
- To have understanding.
- To make one's way by or as if by pushing aside or removing material.
- To loosen, turn over, or remove earth or other material.
- To take notice of.
- To like, enjoy, or appreciate.
- To learn or discover by careful research or investigation.
- To force down and into something; thrust.
- To poke or prod.
- To strike or redirect (a ball) just before it hits the ground, keeping it in play, as in tennis or volleyball.
- To understand fully.
- To form by hollowing out.
- To make a hole in; hollow out.
- To expose or uncover by or as if by digging.
- To engage in digging, hollowing out, or removing.
- To remove by digging or scooping out.
DIG vs EXCAVATE: TRANSITIVE VERB
- To entrench oneself so as to give stronger resistance; -- used of warfare or negotiating situations.
- To get out or obtain by digging. The preposition is often omitted; as, the men are digging coal, digging iron ore, digging potatoes.
- To undermine and cause to fall by digging; as, to dig down a wall.
- To like; enjoy; admire.
- To thrust; to poke.
- To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate.
- To get by digging.
- 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.
- A kind of dredging apparatus for excavating under water, in which silt and loose material mixed with water are drawn up by a pump.
- To dig out and remove, as earth.
- To form by hollowing; to shape, as a cavity, or anything that is hollow.
- To hollow out; to form cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging
DIG vs EXCAVATE: OTHER WORD TYPES
- To make a ditch or other excavation; turn up or throw out earth or other material, as in making a ditch or channel or in tilling: as, to dig in the field; to dig to the bottom of something.
- To study hard; give much time to study; grind.
- To excavate; make a passage through or into, or remove, by loosening and taking away material: usually followed by an adverb: as, to dig up the ground; to dig out a choked tunnel.
- To form by excavation; make by digging: as, to dig a tunnel, a well, a mine, etc.; to dig one's way out.
- To break up and turn over piecemeal, as a portion of ground: as, to dig a garden with a spade; a hog digs the ground with his snout.
- To excavate a passage or tunnel for; make a way of escape for by digging: as, he dug himself out of prison.
- To obtain or remove by excavation; figuratively, to find or discover by effort or search; get by close attention or investigation: often followed by up or out: as, to dig potatoes; to dig or dig out ore; to dig up old records; to dig out a lesson.
- To cause to penetrate; thrust or force in: followed by into: as, he dug his spurs into his horse's flanks; he dug his heel into the ground.
- Remove, harvest, or recover by digging
- Thrust down or into
- (idiom) (dig it out) To run as fast as one can, especially as a base runner in baseball.
- (idiom) (dig in (one's) heels) To resist opposition stubbornly; refuse to yield or compromise.
- Widely and irregularly notched: said of a margin or mark.
- In zoology: Formed as if by excavation; hollowed, but having the inner surface irregularly rounded.
- To form by scooping or hollowing out; make by digging out material, as from the earth: as, to excavate a tunnel or a cellar.
- To hollow out, or make a hollow or cavity in, by digging or scooping out the inner part, or by removing extraneous matter: as, to excavate a tumulus or a buried city for the purpose of exploring it; to excavate a cocoanut.
DIG vs EXCAVATE: RELATED WORDS
- Savvy, Dig out, Drudge, Apprehend, Hollow, Slam, Shaft, Toil, Prod, Stab, Grind, Excavation, Poke, Delve, Excavate
- Frisk, Tap, Widen, Pierce, Penetrate, Search, Drill, Carve, Delve, Burrow, Unearth, Dig up, Turn up, Hollow, Dig
DIG vs EXCAVATE: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Barb, Comprehend, Savvy, Apprehend, Hollow, Slam, Shaft, Toil, Prod, Stab, Grind, Excavation, Poke, Delve, Excavate
- Disinter, Dredge, Exhume, Frisk, Tap, Widen, Pierce, Search, Carve, Delve, Burrow, Unearth, Turn up, Hollow, Dig
DIG vs EXCAVATE: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- Dig that shouting all caps at the beginning.
- Page for political purposes to dig up dirt.
- Exemplary teachers dig deeper into this formative data.
- Man, how do you dig up this stuff?
- Then we decided to dig a little deeper.
- Dino dig oasis hers a picture of Dino dig oasis.
- Jeg elsker dig, min son, og Guf elsker dig ogsa.
- You want to complete your Masters thesis by completing an archaeological dig, but know that any dig is incredibly expensive.
- Themed topics include: Apartment Block with Branches Dig, Diggers, Dig!
- So dig in, dig in, dig we must, right?
- Underground Facilities Damage Prevention Act; modifying definition of excavate.
- Let your child explore how to excavate the site!
- Do not excavate in areas of excessive groundwater.
- Excavate the lake bottom for aquatic plant control.
- Tepe as he has been to excavate it.
- It is loose, sandy and easy to excavate.
- Varun, arrives, hoping to excavate the temple grounds.
- Pick axe is used to excavate the soil.
- How does sociology excavate the roots of inequality?
- Bench as required for equipment access to excavate.
DIG vs EXCAVATE: QUESTIONS
- What level does Graveler learn dig in Pokemon Ruby?
- Why did WW1 soldiers dig trenches to protect themselves?
- What size trenching/dig bucket to remove tree stumps?
- Was BBC's Alice Roberts at Pembrokeshire archaeological dig?
- Why did soldiers on the Western Front dig trenches?
- How are Digoxigenin (DIG)-labeled antisense RNA probes synthesized?
- Did archaeologists dig up an ancient alien cellphone?
- What toolbar elements does your dig frontend support?
- Did Oyston family make dig at Blackpool in latest Oyston dig?
- Did Schmeichel take a cheeky dig at England with England dig?
- Who was the first person to excavate the diamonddanger cave?
- How much area can a hydraulic excavator excavate in one day?
- How many hours does a Kubota kx080 take to excavate?
- Why did the IFAO decide to excavate Deir el-Medina?
- How many cubic meters does an excavator excavate per hour?
- What techniques were used to excavate the Terracotta Warriors?
- When did parrot excavate Tall al-Ḥarīrī?
- Is there an urgent need for archaeologists to excavate?
- What do archaeologists find when they excavate burial mounds?
- Why is it important to excavate archaeological evidence?