dig
IPA: dˈɪg
noun
- An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place.
- A thrust; a poke.
- (volleyball) A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
- (cricket) An innings.
- A cutting, sarcastic remark.
- The occupation of digging for gold.
- (US, colloquial, dated) A plodding and laborious student.
- (UK, dialect, dated) A tool for digging.
- (music, slang) A rare or interesting vinyl record bought second-hand.
- (medicine, colloquial) Digoxin.
- (Lancashire, obsolete) A duck.
- (astronomy) dwarf irregular galaxy
- (astronomy) Initialism of dwarf irregular galaxy.
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.
- (transitive) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
- (mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
- (US, slang, dated) To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
- (figurative) To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
- To thrust; to poke.
- (volleyball) To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball
- (dated slang) To understand.
- (dated slang, transitive) To appreciate, or like.
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Examples of "dig" in Sentences
- The workers had to dig the drains.
- He had to dig to the center of the earth.
- They had provided the equipment for the dig.
- The spade continues to dig the rectangular hole deeper.
- The gold mine was pegged on the site of ancient diggings in 1893.
- Garstang's work thus reversed the conclusions of the earlier diggings.
- He moved to the colony of Victoria at the age of 21 to work on diggings.
- The wicker chair bounces the balloon into the hole that the spade is digging.
- He came to Victoria in 1852 and for a time worked on the diggings at Bendigo.
- Undeterred, he began to dig a replica coal mine in the back garden of his home.
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