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
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard 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
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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