dig, delve, cut into, turn over
(verb) turn up, loosen, or remove earth; “Dig we must”; “turn over the soil for aeration”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
delve (third-person singular simple present delves, present participle delving, simple past (obsolete) dalf or delved, past participle (obsolete) dolven or delved)
(intransitive) To dig the ground, especially with a shovel.
(ambitransitive) To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out
(ambitransitive) To dig, to excavate.
• (to dig the ground): dig
• (to search thoroughly): investigate, research
delve (plural delves)
(now rare) A pit or den.
• devel
Source: Wiktionary
Delve v. t. [imp. & p. p. Delved; p. pr. & vb. n. Delving.] Etym: [AS. delfan to dig; akin to OS. bidelban to bury, D. delven to dig, MHG. telben, and possibly to E. dale. Cf. Delf a mine.]
1. To dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade. Delve of convenient depth your thrashing flooDryden.
2. To dig into; to penetrate; to trace out; to fathom. I can not delve him to the root. Shak.
Delve, v. i.
Definition: To dig or labor with a spade, or as with a spade; to labor as a drudge. Delve may I not: I shame to beg. Wyclif (Luke xvi. 3).
Delve, n. Etym: [See Delve, v. t., and cf. Delf a mine.]
Definition: A place dug; a pit; a ditch; a den; a cave. Which to that shady delve him brought at last The very tigers from their delves Look out. Moore.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
14 April 2025
(noun) maximum clarity or distinctness of an image rendered by an optical system; “in focus”; “out of focus”
Espresso is both a coffee beverage and a brewing method that originated in Italy. When making an espresso, a small amount of nearly boiling water under pressure forces through finely-ground coffee beans. It has more caffeine per unit volume than most coffee beverages. Its smaller serving size will take three shots to equal a mug of standard brewed coffee.
