What's the difference between digging and spadework?

Digging


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dig
  • (n.) The act or the place of excavating.
  • (n.) Places where ore is dug; especially, certain localities in California, Australia, and elsewhere, at which gold is obtained.
  • (n.) Region; locality.

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.

Spadework


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Houliarakis has been involved in much of the talks with the so-called “Brussels Group” of financial technocrats doing the spadework on the conditions for resuming lending to Greece .
  • (2) I took this to mean the government just hadn't done the spadework.
  • (3) I think that these really big questions, about who gets what, require serious intellectual spadework – and an escape from the strictures of an outmoded economic science that has endured such a dismal crisis.
  • (4) The deal on talks with the Taliban was partly brokered by Pakistan and the emir of Qatar after "months of diplomatic spadework" also involving Germany, Norway and the UK.
  • (5) After George Osborne’s lethally successful branding of Labour as irresponsible, debt-ridden, magic-money-tree feckless borrowers, it will take heavy spadework of reassurance to win back trust.
  • (6) Much of the spadework in earlier negotiations was done by Robert Cooper, the retired British and EU foreign policy strategist and diplomat.
  • (7) But thanks to spadework by Channel 4's Michael Crick, we now know that the "independent witness" justified neither part of that description.

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