(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.
Fathom
Definition:
(n.) A measure of length, containing six feet; the space to which a man can extend his arms; -- used chiefly in measuring cables, cordage, and the depth of navigable water by soundings.
(n.) The measure or extant of one's capacity; depth, as of intellect; profundity; reach; penetration.
(v. t.) To encompass with the arms extended or encircling; to measure by throwing the arms about; to span.
(v. t.) The measure by a sounding line; especially, to sound the depth of; to penetrate, measure, and comprehend; to get to the bottom of.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Erik Britton, of City consultancy Fathom, said: "The LTRO [long term refinancing operation] and all those things, all it's done is bought a bit of time, but it hasn't addressed the structural problems, even slightly, even for Greece."
(2) Another wonderful thing to do is to take a ferry from Tobermory to Fathom Five national marine park and swim to one of the many underwater wrecks.
(3) Fathoming of the vestibule below the central and inferior thirds of the footplate surface has shown that there is no likely danger to the vestibular end organs or cochlear duct if manipulations are carried out no deeper than 1 mm below the surface.
(4) Her dystopian imagination fathoms the darker parts of the US.
(5) Danny Gabay, director of City consultancy Fathom, says what Europe faces is fundamentally a banking crisis.
(6) Erik Britton, of the City consultancy Fathom, says one possibility is that borrowing costs everywhere will rise.
(7) Sometimes, even when it is not possible to fathom the direct cause of an event, the context in which it took place offers many clues.
(8) Speaking before signing a book of condolence on a lectern in the middle of Seville Place directly facing the church, the ex-prime minister said he could not fathom why the paper's columnist had launched what thousands have condemned as a homophobic attack on the singer's memory.
(9) Andrew Brigden, of City consultancy Fathom, said there was a one in three chance of a "double-dip" downturn in the world economy, and warned that with demand at home likely to be depressed as governments and overstretched households sorted out their finances, all the major economies would be pinning their hopes on exporting to foreign markets – but they could not all play that game at once.
(10) The relationship suffered, as did many of his other close relationships with family and friends who could not fathom what he had been through.
(11) It is impossible to fully fathom the depravity and horror inflicted on innocent people by Nazi terror.” Trump later pledged in the statement “to do everything in my power throughout my presidency, and my life, to ensure that the forces of evil never again defeat the powers of good”.
(12) Fathom argues instead for changes that would direct any fresh electronic cash at what it sees as the source of the UK's economic crisis: an overvalued UK housing market.
(13) Neither I, nor the CBS commentary team can fathom why the officials waited until Baltimore were just about to snap the ball on the next play, after a Cincinnati time-out, to call for the review.
(14) We want you gone.” “I still can’t fathom the thought that that’s me,” Rose told the Guardian.
(15) The deeply misjudged anti-nature narrative that has become embedded in political discourse is hard to fathom.
(16) Few journalists attempted to fathom the reason for his overwhelming victory in the Labour leadership contest in 2015 and few have sought systematically and impartially to explore the policies he has promoted as leader.
(17) Using similar measures the London-based consultancy Fathom estimates China is really growing at 3.1% a year, not 7%.
(18) Danny Gabay, of consultancy Fathom, accused the chancellor of encouraging households to take on even more debt, exposing them to the risk of a housing downturn.
(19) Cable is also addressing the widespread complaint that remuneration sections in annual reports are all but impossible for private investors to fathom.
(20) Right to the end Mobutu could not fathom how it was that tiny Rwanda had toppled his once monolithic regime.