DIG
\dˈɪɡ], \dˈɪɡ], \d_ˈɪ_ɡ]\
Definitions of DIG
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
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the site of an archeological exploration; "they set up camp next to the dig"
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create by digging; "dig a hole"; "dig out a channel"
By Princeton University
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the site of an archeological exploration; "they set up camp next to the dig"
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create by digging, of cavities; "dig a hole"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.
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To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well.
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To thrust; to poke.
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To work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve.
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To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
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A plodding and laborious student.
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To work hard or drudge;
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To study ploddingly and laboriously.
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Of a tool: To cut deeply into the work because ill set, held at a wrong angle, or the like, as when a lathe tool is set too low and so sprung into the work.
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A tool for digging.
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An act of digging.
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An amount to be dug.
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Gouge.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.
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To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well.
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To thrust; to poke.
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To work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve.
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To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
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A plodding and laborious student.
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To work hard or drudge;
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To study ploddingly and laboriously.
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Of a tool: To cut deeply into the work because ill set, held at a wrong angle, or the like, as when a lathe tool is set too low and so sprung into the work.
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A tool for digging.
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An act of digging.
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An amount to be dug.
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Gouge.
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To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
By Noah Webster.
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To work with a spade; cast up earth; colloquially, to study hard.
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To loosen or break up (ground) with a spade; to bring up from under ground; as, to dig potatoes; thrust or force in: with into.
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A poke or thrust.
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Dug, or digged.
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Digging.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Digging.
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To break and turn up the earth with a spade, &c; to hollow out by digging; to thrust in; to obtain by digging.
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To work with a spade or a similar piercing instrument; to do servile work; to work in search of. To dig down, to undermine and cause to fall by digging. To dig out, cr to dig from, to obtain by digging. To dig through, to open a passage through.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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