(v. t.) To hollow out; to form cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging; as, to excavate a ball; to excavate the earth.
(v. t.) To form by hollowing; to shape, as a cavity, or anything that is hollow; as, to excavate a canoe, a cellar, a channel.
(v. t.) To dig out and remove, as earth.
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.
Sandpit
Definition:
(n.) A pit or excavation from which sand is or has been taken.
Example Sentences:
(1) After 30 days working on the surface – essentially a large sandpit – the crew face a 240-day "return trip".
(2) The clothes are at the forefront of Shibuya fashion, taking cues from the park sandpit, the urban divebar and grandma's wardrobe, and reworking them into a cutesy package for teenagers.
(3) Halfway through the mission three of the crew clambered into spacesuits and stepped into a sandpit in a mock expedition on to the surface of the red planet .
(4) So popular is Savage that it’s now every Friday and Saturday night at the Metropolis stripclub in east London, where you can swing off the poles and jump into the tropical sandpit till silly o’clock.
(5) Eight species of dermatophytes and closely related fungi were recovered, of which the followings were the most commonly found species in sandpits: Chrysosporium keratinophilum (20.7%), Microsporum gypseum (17.2%), Trichophyton mentagrophytes (6.9%), and C. evolceanui (6.9%).
(6) From here, he has a reassuring domestic view down past John's paddling pool and tortoise-shaped sandpit ("Amazing what you can buy now") to the kitchen that he and Sarah have recently modernised ("We took out two walls, changed the structure a bit, and it's incredible how much light is let in").
(7) The highlight of their voyage will be a simulated spacewalk on Mars, which will take place in a large sandpit.
(8) The keratinophilic fungi of 29 sandpits from kindergarten schools and public parks in the city of Nablus was analysed to evaluate their role in the epidemiology of diseases caused by these fungi.
(9) Today journalists toured the sandpit while wearing 3D glasses – the experience was similar to wandering inside a dark and disappointing Moscow nightclub.
(10) Total viable count from the sandpits was highest in the surface layer sample than the inner layer throughout the year.
(11) You will cross farmland, and may encounter grazing livestock so, although dogs are certainly welcome, they must be kept under control, especially in Sandpit Field.
(12) While the Mars500 experiment aimed to recreate the long voyage, several important factors were left out: the results of weightlessness, potential radiation poisoning, and the fact they spent just a short amount of time in a dusty sandpit that bears little resemblance to Mars.
(13) In view of the results it can be concluded that park sandpits are not, from a hygienic point of view, to be an ideal environment for children to play in.
(14) "A lot of the children were beginning to draw pictures of the floods, and in the sandpits, they would build dams," he says.
(15) The complex has a track, an indoor sandpit for long jump and a gallery for spectators.
(16) This leisure sandwich is even topped off by a penthouse nursery with a ziggurat of ball pools and sandpits on its own roof terrace.
(17) The retailer also stocks a large range of toys, from plastic sandpits to trikes, under its Early Learning Centre brand.
(18) To my left a scientist is remotely manipulating a robot in a large sandpit.
(19) Photograph: Pierre Crom A short walk away over shattered glass, shell craters and a child’s sandpit, a middle-aged soldier placidly cleans his machine-gun in a firewood shed, just a few hundred metres from Ukrainian positions.
(20) It will come as no surprise that owners Tamar and Miguel have children of their own: they've thought of everything to make families feel at home, from books and toys to a trampoline, sandpit and wooden pirate ship.