(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.
Lig
Definition:
(v. i.) To recline; to lie still.
Example Sentences:
(1) Discontinuities of T4 DNA which are caused by excision of UV-damaged areas, by decay of (32)P atoms, or which are present in DNA from rII(-)lig(am) (-) phage produced in a host nonpermissive for amber mutants are all repaired by bacterial enzymes after infection in the presence of chloramphenicol.
(2) The other inconstant supports of the digital sheaths are systematically recorded indeed (C1 to C3), but only in exceptional cases they exist of cruciform fibers (Lig.
(3) The former Liverpool player spent three seasons in Istanbul winning the Super Lig, the Turkish Cup and Turkish Super Cup during his time.
(4) LIG treatment was also beneficial in 4 out of 5 GvHD patients.
(5) Comparing the antibody solutions obtained with MC insulin (MC-lig-sol) or Cr insulin (Cr-lig-sol), the content of IBA in Cr-lig-sol was higher than in MC-lig-sol, but the content of proinsulin-binding antibody (PBA) in MC-lig-sol was very small and statistically lower than that in Cr-lig-sol (P less than 0.01).
(6) The Manchester United striker Robin Van Persie is edging closer to a move to Fenerbahce after reaching an agreement in principle with the Super Lig side.
(7) The Zymomonas mobilis lig gene that encodes DNA ligase was cloned from a cosmid library and identified by genetic complementation of a conditional-lethal Escherichia coli DNA ligase mutant.
(8) In 5 patients intestinal cryptosporidiosis disappeared following oral LIG treatment.
(9) Fenerbahce finished the Super Lig in second place last season and booked a place in the Champions League play-off round.
(10) In contrast, N4 DNA replication requires the products of the dnaF, (ribonucleotide reductase) and lig (DNA ligase) genes of E. coli.
(11) Galatasaray, Besiktas, Fenerbahce and Trabzonspor were the only previous teams to have won the Turkish Super Lig but Bursa's victory draws Turkey level in the fewest champions stakes with Portugal, where Porto, Benfica, Sporting, Belenenses and Boavista are the only champions.
(12) Up to 24 h after the three modes of administration distinctly detectable concentrations were to be located in the lig.
(13) The lig-4 and lig-ts7 alleles are known to reside in the structural gene for DNA ligase, in which lig-321 may also be located.
(14) The results of the examinations demonstrate that the function of the lacrimal system is more quickly normalized if the lig.
(15) Fetal liver retinol concentrations were much lower than those reported for healthy Thai subjects by Montreewasuwat & Olson (1979) in early pregnancy but showed complete 'catch up' in late pregnancy for HIG and to a considerable extent for LIG.
(16) Escherichia coli strains containing mutations in lexA, rep, uvrA, uvrD, uvrE, lig, polA, dam, or xthA were constructed and tested for conjugation and transduction proficiencies and ability to form Lac+ recombinants in an assay system utilizing a nontandem duplication of two partially deleted lactose operons (lacMS286phi80dIIlacBK1).
(17) LIG 2 and LIG 4 reacted with 15 per cent of cells from the peripheral blood lymphocyte population, 20.2 per cent of spleen cells and 20 per cent of lymph node cells, but did not react with pig erythrocytes, granulocytes or cells isolated from thymus, or with the lymphocytes of other species.
(18) As assessed by solution hybridization, UA-lig fetuses exhibited significantly higher hepatic IGFBP-1, IGFBP-2, and IGF-II transcript abundance than UA-nonlig controls (increased 110, 50, and 31%, respectively).
(19) The patello-femoral joint is balanced by 2 tension forces of opposite direction, which are represented by the geometrical position of M. quadriceps femoris and Lig.
(20) A case of an 8 years old and symptomless perforation of a Graefenberg ring into the lig.