What's the difference between digger and excavator?

Digger


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, digs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sasaki, like other machinery operators, spends his shift inside crane and digger cabins, the only way they can clear dangerously radioactive debris.
  • (2) The field was taped off while a mechanical digger clawed at the ground, making parallel trenches in the sandy earth.
  • (3) When builders moved in a few weeks ago, it was marked in flamboyant Polish style with a commissioned "dance" for the diggers by director Robert Florczak, whose audacious multimedia Macbeth debuted at last year's Shakespeare festival.
  • (4) The effect of electrophoretic ejection of philanthotoxin (the polyamine toxin, from the Egyptian digger wasp) was tested on responses of brainstem and spinal neurones in the pentobarbitone-anaesthetized rat to excitatory amino acids.
  • (5) None of which stopped the gold-digger stories, which went through a highly hostile chapter when she and Bridge had a court hearing about child maintenance.
  • (6) Diggers have also been working to widen the mouth of the river to ensure that the mud drifts out to sea as quickly as possible, in the hope that the salinity and the volume of water will aid its rapid dispersal.
  • (7) The mining company official was reported to have said that "well-connected elites are generating millions of dollars in personal income by hiring teams of diggers to hand-extract diamonds" from Chiadzwa, before reselling the stones to shady foreign buyers.
  • (8) After a morning of tearing at the same ground two decades on, the digger overheated and had to be rested.
  • (9) A few dozen workers from the Frontier Works Organisation (FWO), an arm of the Pakistani military, have been making slow progress picking at the massive dam with mechanical diggers and explosives.
  • (10) He knows where the Chernobyl bodies are buried, he says, because he was the grave digger.
  • (11) Digger will not argue with the analysis that people should not try to rehabilitate their own reputations at the expense of English international relations in football.
  • (12) Still, Dughan took them roundabout ways, through Blythborough, on the A145 towards Uggeshall, past still diggers where roads were being widened.
  • (13) But any digger hoping for the kind of gold bars you see in heist movies would have been disappointed.
  • (14) Semi-fossorial species among rodents and insectivores are scratch-diggers.
  • (15) Pigment granule migration in pigment cells and retinula cells of the digger wasp Sphex cognatus Smith was analysed morphologically after light adaptation to natural light, dark adaptation and after four selective chromatic adaptations in the range between 358 nm and 580 nm and used as the index of receptor cell sensitivity.
  • (16) Despite the daily pulling of toddlers through the roll call of highlights – Digger!
  • (17) A digger was then used to extract the car which had been flattened by the landslide and crushed by the root system of a large tree.
  • (18) Black diggers fought and died for a nation that denied them the right to vote.
  • (19) The pigs are prodigious diggers and tropical island's torrential rainstorms then wash the soil out to the waters that are home to renowned sharks and corals.
  • (20) Crisis PR is a booming business , helping to divert attention from the antics of offspring and gold-diggers.

Excavator


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, excavates or hollows out; a machine, as a dredging machine, or a tool, for excavating.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The only sign of life was excavators loading trees on to barges to take to pulp mills.
  • (2) To reduce the risks posed by the hazard, the report recommends that a management plan be created to determine the level of soil contamination and for managing excavated soil, and to decommission disused septic tanks to prevent the spread of contamination.
  • (3) Although only a small section of the site has been excavated, there are baths, luxurious houses, an amphitheatre, a forum, shops, gardens with working fountains and city walls to explore, with many wonderful mosaics still in situ.
  • (4) The proximal tibial metaphyses of ten New Zealand white rabbits were excavated and filled with sheets of polyvinyl alcohol, into which a suspension of B. fragilis cells was injected on the right side, while saline was used on the left side.
  • (5) For miles, only the strip of land for the track is dug up, but in places the footprint is much wider: access routes for work vehicles; holding areas for excavated earth; new electricity substations; mounds of ballast prepared for the day when quarries cannot keep pace with the demands of the construction; extra lines for the trains that will lay the track.
  • (6) And it is allowed to deal in gold not excavated from the ground according to the well-known aharia frameworks with immediate effect.
  • (7) Protected by a rusty padlocked gate, Macrinus's tomb was targeted by thieves after it was first excavated in 2008.
  • (8) The injury begins as a small nodule with a keratotic innermost part that rapidly is excavated, grows centrifugally, appearing as a new lesion, an expansion of the primary one, in the posterior higher region, with the same characteristics.
  • (9) The purpose of this paper is to present a Mediaeval skeleton of an approximately 16 year old boy, which was excavated at a Danish cemetery containing ca.
  • (10) Huang Ren Zhong's striped parasol stands out against the muddy cliff of excavated earth.
  • (11) No matter how "sophisticated" they may seem to have become, contemporary methods for bioplanimetry of the optic disc vary in precision; easily overlooked or neglected optical influences must, indeed, be taken into consideration; and, of greatest detriment to the meaningfulness of any and all such results is the fact that even "experts" have difficulty in uniformly and reproducibly indicating where the boundaries of the optic disc and its excavation actually lie.
  • (12) The dissident Gleb Yakunin excavated evidence from the KGB archives in the 1990s that fingered high-ranking priests as KGB agents, including the former head of the church, Aleksei II, and the current, Patriarch Kirill I.
  • (13) Prolonged respiratory assistance by positive pressure ventilation via cuffed tracheostomy or endotracheal tube can be complicated by mucosal erosions, tracheal stenosis, tracheomalacia, excavation of the tracheal wall with loss of tissue and tracheoesophageal fistula.
  • (14) Eleven human optic nerves from subjects in different decades ranging from the fifth to the ninth were investigated with the silver carbonate method to establish the pattern and frequency of age changes within the optic nerve head and their relationship with the glaucomatous excavation.
  • (15) Such differential mineralization points on physiological and pathological processes in bone and teeth, and is frequently conserved both in excavated skeletal remains and in cremations.
  • (16) Israel has said demolishing tunnels is the principal goal of its ground operation and it has released footage showing tunnels being demolished by excavators and air strikes.
  • (17) All these results provide a good basis for the assumption that, in glaucoma, the main factor producing restriction of the field of vision and excavations of the papilla is defective irrigation of the papillary vessels, originating in the choroid membrane, with chronic ischemia of the papilla.
  • (18) The excavation method allowed for a complete elimination of the decayed dentinal tissue down to the hypermineralized zone.
  • (19) Alfred, a student of the “father of American anthropology” Franz Boas , gathered and preserved information about native peoples and traditions in California, excavated archaeological sites in Mexico and Peru, and some years before his daughter’s birth had briefly practised as a psychoanalyst.
  • (20) Excavations in the Dakotas, prior to the closure of the Missouri River dams, yielded much information on demographics, anomalies, and epidemiological patterns for specific abnormalities in prior inhabitants of the area over several centuries.