(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.
Unbury
Definition:
(v. t.) To disinter; to exhume; fig., to disclose.
Example Sentences:
(1) All its research notwithstanding, UNPERU expressed as much shock as the rest of the world when, over a year after the Ocean Ranger's visit, up from the still-recovering Newfoundland ground into which it had pushed its drill, the first clutch of newly-hatched oil rigs had unburied themselves.
(2) Many died on the road and were left unburied.” Ethiopia is battling a new wave of drought following the strongest El Niño on record Today the images and stories coming out of Ethiopia and its neighbours in east Africa are similarly heartbreaking.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Prince Charles says there are modern lessons to be learnt from Gallipoli during his speech at the memorial service Conditions were appalling: suffocating heat in summer, shortages of food and water, rotting unburied corpses that drew thick swarms of huge black flies, and above all the scourge of dysentery that spared almost no one, leaving them weakened and exhausted.
(4) Little reduction in percentages of beets yeilding R. SOLANI COLONIES TOOK PLACE FROM November to April in either buried or unburied beets.
(5) The cyst was excised with a right hemicolectomy and histology showed a mucus-producing papillary cystadenocarcinoma arising in the unburied appendiceal stump.
(6) The next day, we travelled by helicopter to Ntarama, landing 70 metres downhill from a church where around 400 out of 5,000 bodies still lay unburied after an attack five months earlier.
(7) But still untold thousands of corpses remain unburied.
(8) And they will keep cheering for such acts even as the bodies of his latest innocent victims go unburied.
(9) But it was Christmas Eve; believe ; belief thrilled the night air, where glittering rime on unburied sons treasured their stiff hair.
(10) A Department of Environment note shows that at the height of the dispute there were 150 unburied bodies stored in a factory in Speke, with 25 more added every day.
(11) Information about the local buried-unburied pattern and the average tendency of the particular types of amino acids to be buried inside the globule were used.
(12) The 1978-9 winter of discontent hung over Labour for two decades: for four general elections in a row, the Tories successfully saddled their opponents with archive images of uncleared rubbish and tales of unburied dead.
(13) The sight of rubbish piling up in London's Leicester Square and the fact that the dead went unburied in Liverpool provided two lasting images of the 1979 winter of discontent.
(14) John Humphrys did his best to turn the clock back 30 years yesterday, teeing-up a BBC show-down between a Conservative minister and a trade unionist with talk of rubbish uncollected on the streets and the dead lying unburied.