(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.
(v. t.) To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well.
(v. t.) To thrust; to poke.
(v. i.) To work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve.
(v. i.) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
(v. i.) To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
(n.) A thrust; a punch; a poke; as, a dig in the side or the ribs. See Dig, v. t., 4.
(v. t.) A plodding and laborious student.
Example Sentences:
(1) Its few remaining mines involve people digging coal out of hillsides.
(2) The satellite component is not found when digging up from the tube bottom.
(3) And stopping them means taking action in Syria, because it is Raqqa that is their headquarters .” Isis digging in amid intensified airstrikes in Raqqa, say activists Read more He added: “We shouldn’t be content with outsourcing our security to our allies.
(4) Who shot you in the back as you drove on your motorbike to dig your children out of the rubble?
(5) Things like digging in the garden often cause low back pain, and exercises will be good treatment for this.
(6) Its boot always held a bivouac bag, a trenching tool of some sort and a towel and trunks, in case he passed somewhere interesting to sleep, dig, or swim.
(7) "In high-value areas like London it can be worthwhile digging under the house to add a basement, but in other parts of the country it won't be worth it," says Helen Brunskill of Brunskill Design Architects.
(8) The conditions for the incorporation of digoxigenin-11-dUTP (dig-11-dUTP) during polymerization were optimized to generate strand specific DNA hybridization probes up to a length of 5000 nt.
(9) Dig-ASO testing correctly reclassified 10 individuals who had tested inconclusively on analysis for leukocyte beta-hexosaminidase A activity; 3 were identified as carriers and 7 as noncarriers.
(10) Before digging into the problems with this latest solution, one big acknowledgment must be made: this is about as big a step as the ECB could have taken.
(11) It tells you everything you need to know about a Russia digging in for another 12 years of Putin.
(12) Merkl says the plan is to “really dig into the economics of collection and recycling so that people will find it profitable to collect and to separate.
(13) The judge noted the “seriousness of these offences and impact on road traffic, particularly given the number of fines previously issued against BT by TfL for similar offences.” Firms undertaking work anywhere in London need a permit before digging up the roads, allowing highway authorities to coordinate work to minimise disruption.
(14) Fracking for shale gas involves digging, often as deep as a kilometre down, and pumping a mix of water, sand and chemicals into surrounding rock to fracture it and release the gas.
(15) This has been a really fascinating half of football: the favourites finally showing some real class up front, the minnows digging deep in defence and occasionally breaking forward.
(16) Dig deeper into the funding numbers – the real story of national politics in the post Citizens United age – and the Tea Party realignment of the GOP stands out yet more starkly.
(17) Welbeck's goal drought came to an end when Rafael da Silva wriggled clear on the right and managed to dig out a deep cross that the unmarked Adnan Januzaj, whom Moyes felt came in for some rough treatment, headed against the far post.
(18) Stephen Fisher, one of the archaeologists recording the site, says digging the trenches would also have been training for the men, who would soon have to do it for real, and the little slit trenches scattered across the site, just big enough for one man to cower in, might represent their first efforts.
(19) We do not need parliamentary inquiries or royal commissions to dig into this."
(20) "Landlords have a duty to give assured shorthold tenants at least two months' notice when evicting them," says Heather Kennedy of Digs.
Gravedigger
Definition:
(n.) A digger of graves.
(n.) See Burying beetle, under Bury, v. t.
Example Sentences:
(1) Exiting the cemetery at the south gate (not the main gate) you enter Prospect Square and can finish the walk with a pint in John Kavanagh’s pub , known locally as the Gravediggers.
(2) The local gravedigger says he has already buried 1,000, and more bodies are found every day.
(3) She inveighs against the "gravediggers" of Brussels, whose austerity measures are held responsible for the scourge of mass unemployment and economic stagnation.
(4) He too had to put up with large swaths of the French left labelling him the Socialists’ gravedigger, because of his neoliberal reforms.
(5) Ebola: toilet cleaners, gravediggers and survivors tell their story – in pictures Read more It says DfID was too slow to respond to warnings from MSF and others because of its overreliance on the existing international public health system and its expectation that the WHO would act quickly.
(6) The hope had been if you take plasma from the recovered patient and transfuse a new patient with that plasma there would be significant effect, and this study shows there was not.” Ebola: toilet cleaners, gravediggers and survivors tell their story – in pictures Read more The trial group’s mortality rate was compared with that of more than 400 patients treated in the same centre in the five months previously.
(7) "Four in the past week, all young ones," says Ignacio Montes, 66, the gravedigger.
(8) The macabre minutes of the secretive "central contingencies unit" show that in the face of a strike by local authority gravediggers and crematorium staff, Whitehall officials considered bringing in private contractors to do the job but feared this could lead to "unseemly scenes at cemetery gates" involving union pickets.
(9) Peter Boudgoust, the director of the SWR, has been called a "cultural gravedigger" by the general secretary of the German music council, Christian Höppner, for what he called the "cultural political catastrophe".
(10) The files show that only 80 gravediggers were on strike in Liverpool and Tameside, Greater Manchester, in January 1979 as part of public sector strikes that contributed to the last days of James Callaghan's government, although the particular dispute later spread to other towns including Brighton and Hyndburn.
(11) She says everyone waits for the hour when the gravedigger arrives and there are new bodies to identify.
(12) The proceedings opened with our theme song, a light, melancholic melody played on accordion by its composer, No 7, a gravedigger from the Umbrian town of Gubbio, where Saint Francis tamed the wolves.