excavation, digging, dig
(noun) the act of digging; “there’s an interesting excavation going on near Princeton”
grok, get the picture, comprehend, savvy, dig, grasp, compass, apprehend
(verb) get the meaning of something; “Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?”
jab, prod, stab, poke, dig
(verb) poke or thrust abruptly; “he jabbed his finger into her ribs”
dig, delve, cut into, turn over
(verb) turn up, loosen, or remove earth; “Dig we must”; “turn over the soil for aeration”
excavate, dig, hollow
(verb) remove the inner part or the core of; “the mining company wants to excavate the hillside”
dig, dig out
(verb) create by digging; “dig a hole”; “dig out a channel”
dig
(verb) thrust down or into; “dig the oars into the water”; “dig your foot into the floor”
dig, dig up, dig out
(verb) remove, harvest, or recover by digging; “dig salt”; “dig coal”
labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
(verb) work hard; “She was digging away at her math homework”; “Lexicographers drudge all day long”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
digging (countable and uncountable, plural diggings)
The action performed by a person or thing that digs.
A place where ore is dug, especially certain localities in California, Australia, etc. where gold is obtained.
(archaic, colloquial) region; locality
digging
present participle of dig
Source: Wiktionary
Dig"ging, n.
1. The act or the place of excavating.
2. pl.
Definition: Places where ore is dug; especially, certain localities in California, Australia, and elsewhere, at which gold is obtained. [Recent]
3. pl.
Definition: Region; locality. [Low]
Dig, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dug or Digged (; p. pr. & vb. n. Digging.
– Digged is archaic.] Etym: [OE. diggen, perh. the same word as diken, dichen (see Dike, Ditch); cf. Dan. dige to dig, dige a ditch; or akin to E. 1st dag.
1. 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. Be first to dig the ground. Dryden.
2. To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.
3. To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well.
4. To thrust; to poke. [Colloq.] You should have seen children . . . dig and push their mothers under the sides, saying thus to them: Look, mother, how great a lubber doth yet wear pearls. Robynson (More's Utopia). To dig down, to undermine and cause to fall by digging; as, to dig down a wall.
– To dig from, out of, out, or up, to get out or obtain by digging; as, to dig coal from or out of a mine; to dig out fossils; to dig up a tree. The preposition is often omitted; as, the men are digging coal, digging iron ore, digging potatoes.
– To dig in, to cover by digging; as, to dig in manure.(b) To entrench oneself so as to give stronger resistance; -- used of warfare. Also figuratively, esp. in the phrase to dig in one's heels.
Dig, v. i.
1. To work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve. Dig for it more than for hid treasures. Job iii. 21. I can not dig; to beg I am ashamed. Luke xvi. 3.
2. (Mining)
Definition: To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
3. To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously. [Cant, U.S.]
Dig, n.
1. A thrust; a punch; a poke; as, a dig in the side or the ribs. See Dig, v. t.,
4. [Colloq.]
2. A plodding and laborious student. [Cant, U.S.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
2 April 2025
(adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; “covert actions by the CIA”; “covert funding for the rebels”
According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by AlcaldĂa Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de BolĂvar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.
