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US
/ˈdɪɡ/
]
[ UK /dˈɪɡ/ ]
[ UK /dˈɪɡ/ ]
VERB
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remove the inner part or the core of
the mining company wants to excavate the hillside -
remove, harvest, or recover by digging
dig salt
dig coal -
create by digging
dig a hole
dig out a channel -
work hard
Lexicographers drudge all day long
She was digging away at her math homework -
thrust down or into
dig your foot into the floor
dig the oars into the water -
get the meaning of something
Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter? -
poke or thrust abruptly
he jabbed his finger into her ribs -
turn up, loosen, or remove earth
turn over the soil for aeration
Dig we must
NOUN
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a small gouge (as in the cover of a book)
the book was in good condition except for a dig in the back cover -
the site of an archeological exploration
they set up camp next to the dig -
the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow
she gave me a sharp dig in the ribs -
an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
she threw shafts of sarcasm
she takes a dig at me every chance she gets
his parting shot was `drop dead' -
the act of digging
there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton
How To Use dig In A Sentence
- McGill University, however, has found a way to increase access to its rare books - thanks to a lot of grant money and one badass digital camera.
- When your bulbs arrive, or you buy them from the garden center, gather everyone together, hand out garden tools and start digging.
- Also the competition (as it's not all that hard to play)'s prodigious, even at youth orchestra level, so, in addition to playing something which almost often simply sounds flutey, it's very hard to get anywhere.
- These same people also routinely said they felt comfortable with Bush as a leader with values and dignity.
- Despite the challenges that prevail, our women have 'shouldered' the burdens with great resilience and dignity; and many of the successes that we claim toady, must be credited to our mothers, grandmothers, wives, aunts and sisters. Jamaica Information Service
- He gathered himself up with as much dignity as he could muster before glaring at me.
- Iin this case it uses the atomic unit of digital life - a single screen of data on a Palm, a little brick of reality we spend so much time staring at all day long.
- Officers used a digger to carve out a trench 10ft deep and 40ft long to get to the van. The Sun
- She looks terrible, shorn of all her beauty and dignity.
- This was the reality glossed over in television fiction; indignity, suspicion, denial of the decencies. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
