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US
/ˈdɪɡ/
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[ 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
- When your bulbs arrive, or you buy them from the garden center, gather everyone together, hand out garden tools and start digging.
- 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.
- 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.
- So do a little digging, and see what else is on at the metroplex other than the big name stinko's. 0%.
- Benecken characterized the entire hacking case as "ultramodern" and said that, in a way, it exemplified the "downside" of today's digital age "that can easily been taken advantage of by savvy youths with those skills and a lot of time. Hackers Allegedly Steal New Gaga Songs, Rumored Ke$ha Sex Photo
- 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.
- The overseer, a great strong man, cracking his "blacksnake" from time to time, to enforce authority, excited our strong indignation. 'Three Score Years and Ten' Life-Long Memories of Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and Other Parts of the West
- There is a fine square here called Madison, in the centre of which trees rise from fountain-watered grass, and statued figures of people who were men in their day and did things, palatial buildings, dignifying commerce, form the square. Impressions of a War Correspondent
- The parable Jesus told about the prodigal son shows us what love means.
- And the moral murder of my child is to be my punishment for daring to turn a deaf ear to the indign passion of a brute! The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel