(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.
Jig
Definition:
(n.) A light, brisk musical movement.
(n.) A light, humorous piece of writing, esp. in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad.
(n.) A piece of sport; a trick; a prank.
(n.) A trolling bait, consisting of a bright spoon and a hook attached.
(n.) A small machine or handy tool
(n.) A contrivance fastened to or inclosing a piece of work, and having hard steel surfaces to guide a tool, as a drill, or to form a shield or templet to work to, as in filing.
(n.) An apparatus or a machine for jigging ore.
(v. t.) To sing to the tune of a jig.
(v. t.) To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.
(v. t.) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve. See Jigging, n.
(n.) To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.
(v. i.) To dance a jig; to skip about.
Example Sentences:
(1) If Del Bosque really want to win this World Cup thingymebob, then he has got to tell Iker Casillas that the jig is up, correct?
(2) Between members of different teams however, only the finger breadth method attained reliabilities above .7, and the plexiglass jig, in particular, showed very low reliability.
(3) A new jig simulating the abdominal cavity and wall is described.
(4) The stain pattern on the stem was analysed in a 3-point-bending jig and also after cementing it into cadaver femurs.
(5) Dipnets and jigs inflicted minimal trauma and were preferred for squid capture.
(6) Once the jig is in position, the patient is asked to produce left and right lateral movements until muscular relaxation is obtained.
(7) We developed some instruments to resolve these problems; i.e., scopes with a large diameter for high resolution, a triangulation instrument for multiple cannulations, a needle set-up jig for disk traction suture, a step cannulation system and a two-channel cannula for operating in the narrow lower joint space and a fixing jig for cannulas in the upper and lower joint space to observe the same portion of the discal tissue from both joint space during disk suturing.
(8) When, in 1996, the Globe theatre in London first experimented with doing it Shakespeare’s way, the scholars and theatre folk encountered the jig problem.
(9) This study used a special jig system, photography, and a sonic digitizer to evaluate the change in canal size and location after retreatment in 20 teeth with small or large curved canals (greater than 23 degrees).
(10) The kinetics of neural uptake and efflux of lidocaine hydrochloride were studies by means of a standardized technique for blocking the intraorbital nerve of the rat, using a palatal jig.
(11) Thermostatic regulation of tissue temperature is provided by on-off control of the average power supplied independently to each heating jig.
(12) It is recommended that the clearance of the hole in the support jig is at least 0.7 mm and that push-out results are only compared with each other when materials with similar Young's modulus are concerned.
(13) The ads have featured a miniature Miliband in Salmond’s jacket pocket and, in one animated film, the Labour leader dancing to a Scottish jig played by Salmond on a recorder.
(14) When a mechanical checkout jig was set up at the same point, a discrepancy of 4 mm resulted when the gantry was moved from 0 degrees to 180 degrees.
(15) The Herbert screw is useful in treating displaced capitellar fractures since the jig maintains the reduction and the screw, compressing the fracture site, is buried beneath the articular cartilage and does not have to be removed.
(16) If you want sustainable supply chains, you have to re-jig how you think.
(17) A two-part German-South African co-production based on the bestselling Kate Mosse novel, it's a window-rattling potboiler bubbling with ancient religious conspiracies, comely medieval wenches, comely 21st-century academics, fogbanks of swirly past-times skulduggery, evil pharmaceutical CEOs in 10 denier tights, priapic chevaliers and, verily, a script that does dance a merry jig upon the very phizog of credibility.
(18) A central distractor, attached to the jig, positions and aligns the knee at 0 degrees or 90 degrees.
(19) A pilot drill with a built-in stop to prevent overpenetration is used first and then the screw can be inserted with jig, or it may be inserted manually if the osteotomy is stablized temporarily with a Kirschner wire.
(20) Single-limb-stance loads and combined axial and torsional loads were applied to the implanted femoral prostheses with the use of a jig that simulated acetabular and trochanteric loading.