(v. t.) To dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade.
(v. t.) To dig into; to penetrate; to trace out; to fathom.
(v. i.) To dig or labor with a spade, or as with a spade; to labor as a drudge.
(v. t.) A place dug; a pit; a ditch; a den; a cave.
Example Sentences:
(1) You don’t have to delve too hard into the oeuvre to see that they’ll take pictures of anything if it’s got the Chanel logo on it.
(2) The present article delves into the relatively unexplored areas of dispersion phenomena, and attempts to develop a theoretical model for general application.
(3) The health secretary has not done anything quite so crude as compare the mortality of the sick with the well, but the more experts delve into his numbers, the shakier they look.
(4) For his part, Brown created Project PM , "a crowd-sourced wiki focused on government intelligence contractors" to delve through the tens of thousands of emails taken from HBGary Federal's servers.
(5) "The fact that they've obviously delved into commercial property and had so many commercial liabilities surprises me.
(6) One former Clifton College student, Stuart Delves, compared the relationship between students and some of the English teachers at the school in the late 60s and early 70s to the film Dead Poets Society.
(7) Earlier this week, Izvestia reported that Yaroshenko had written to Trump, complaining of poor health and saying that Trump’s intervention in the case would offer his “last chance to return to Russia as a sane person.” If the two leaders do delve into more geopolitical questions, Putin will probably try to focus on issues on which Washington lawmakers could more conceivably cooperate.
(8) He didn't mind telling you, for instance, that his wife's family had been interned in camps in the country to which they were now returning; if he saw someone handing out flyers in the street, he would delve deeply into their purposes; he was not shy of doorstepping ancient members of the KGB.
(9) The Arsenal manager had said that he might have to delve for the tome to reacquaint himself with the meaning of crisis.
(10) The UN commission report also delves into the grim human rights situation in Eritrea in exhaustive detail.
(11) This topic is the focus of considerable ongoing research, and a wealth of information is available for the clinician who desires to delve more deeply into the subject.
(12) To delve into what is really happening, I have compared the profile of Ukip’s support in January last year with last month.
(13) One or several independent investigating judges will be appointed in the next few days to delve into the Mediapart recording.
(14) The fact markets pared back this bounce soon after the announcement may in some respects reflect growing market concern that central banks are delving into a tit-for-tat currency devaluation war,” said Angus Nicholson at the online trading firm IG in Melbourne.
(15) Delving deeper, however, the story may just have become a little more complicated.
(16) "Relations between Russia and Belarus seem to be delving to new lows and the expectation is that Russia will further ratchet up pressure on its neighbour via the trade channel," said Timothy Ash, an analyst at Standard Bank in London.
(17) We will be delving into [the report], we will be reviewing that to see what is in there is accurate, which is inaccurate, which is a misstatement, which are examples that may be factual, may not be factual.” “Other parts of the country have shown outrage at this type of behavior by police,” said Mara Brown of Cleveland, an emergency medical technician, “but Cleveland has a history of using many types of devices – from the business leaders ignoring things to control of the media to political leaders favoring the status quo – to keep things quiet.” At the grocery store in Cleveland’s Glenville neighborhood where Jones was killed hardly anyone was around on Monday afternoon.
(18) He has a nice down-to-earth wit," says Le Voi) to Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book, via modern contributions from not least Ottolenghi, there is quite a vegetarian canon that you can delve into.
(19) Next City delves into the issue , suggesting that as a reminder of death, cemeteries are easy for cities to ignore.
(20) "The process has been gruelling and emotional at times, and the social workers have delved deep into our pasts.
Elve
Definition:
(n.) An old form of Elf.
Example Sentences:
(1) The ratio of ELV values for BSP and dBSP appeared to be related to overall hepatic function, with ratios greater than 1 in the normal dogs and less than 1 in the patients.
(2) In the present study, we have determined whether or not left adrenal products are important to the changes induced by ELV and whether or not reflux of left renal vein content occurs in the ELV rat.
(3) Additionally, when 85Sr-labelled microspheres were infused into the left renal vein, they did not appear in either left or right testes of ELV animals.
(4) These blood flow and temperature changes also occurred when ELV animals were subjected to simultaneous LAX.
(5) Maximally (ED100) and half-maximally (ED50) stimulating doses of LH and LHRH were selected from these studies and administered to sham-operated and ELV rats 30 days after the operation to induce ELV.
(6) The amino acid sequences of the VPs of ELV and four other tymoviruses align unequivocally and their relationships, as assessed from the percentage of identical residues, correlate well with previously reported serological tests which have shown ELV to be distant from other tymoviruses.
(7) On the other hand the equivalent liver volume (ELV) and storage capacity were lower with dBSP.
(8) The Scandinavian obsession with elves and fairy folk at Christmas has become entrenched, with elf training schools and forest grottoes springing up in every patch of woodland.
(9) The examinations consisted of clinical and laboratory assessment, resting ECG, 24-hour ECG monitoring, X-ray evaluation of cardiac volume (CV), and evaluation of echocardiographic left ventricular shortening (ELVS) and of isotopic ejection fraction (EF).
(10) The Lapland New Forest attraction drew criticism back in 2008, with its brawling elves, sad-looking animals and muddy grotto.
(11) We love our elves.” We’d said we’d quite like to try cross-country skiing so Björn simply pulls up by the side of the road, straps us into our skis and we set off.
(12) It is possible that the previously determined ELV-associated decrease in intratesticular testosterone concentrations is subsequent to a wash-out phenomenon that follows the increased testicular blood flow that also is known to be associated with ELV.
(13) These values were similar for right control testicles and left and right testicles of ELV animals.
(14) The nucleotide sequence of the genome of erysimum latent tymovirus (ELV) has been determined.
(15) ELV was transmissible by Aphis frangulae gossypii, Brevicoryne brassicae, and Myzus persicae neither in short nor in long feeding times.
(16) Although its pressure dependence has been recognized, its temporal relationship to ventricular elastance (Elv(t)) has not been established.
(17) Elv(t) was derived using an elastance-resistance model of the left ventricle assuming an ejection fraction of 0.50 and a dead volume (Vd) of 3.0 mL.
(18) In the first study, testicular blood flow and temperature were studied in control animals and those with ELV, left adrenalectomy (LAX), or ELV + LAX.
(19) The results demonstrate that ELV does not alter the blood-testis barrier (BTB) to 3H-inulin (MW 5000), it being largely excluded from entry into the tubule lumen in both control and ELV animals.
(20) Back in the 90s, a group of conservative lawyers called “the elves” secretly worked to keep the Paula Jones case alive.