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dig English

Meaning dig meaning

What does dig mean?
Definitions in simple English

dig Verb

— If you dig a hole, you make it bigger by removing material, usually using a shovel or your hands. You will need to dig the hole larger than the roots of the tree you want to plant. They've been digging for gold for months, but they haven't found a thing. — If you dig somewhere for something, you look there for it. He dug in his pocket for another ten cents. After digging through the files, he finally found what he was looking for. — If you dig something, you take it out of the ground, usually using a shovel. Can you go out to the garden and dig some onions? — If you dig up dirt on someone, you find hidden information that can hurt them. Before the trial, they dug up a bunch of dirt on her. — If you dig a hole for yourself, you make your own problems. Mr. Bush has dug himself a hole that he can't get out of. — If you dig something, you like it. I really dig your new car.

dig Noun

— A dig is a short negative comment about someone. In a dig at the teacher, he said she's lucky to be right even once in a while. — A dig is a place where people are digging. There's a dig in the middle of the city where they found some old bones. — Your digs is the room that you rent to live in.

dig

— verb (= turn over) turn up, loosen, or remove earth Dig we must turn over the soil for aeration — verb (= dig out) create by digging dig a hole dig out a channel — verb remove, harvest, or recover by digging dig salt dig coal — verb thrust down or into dig the oars into the water dig your foot into the floor — noun the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow she gave me a sharp dig in the ribs — noun a small gouge (as in the cover of a book) the book was in good condition except for a dig in the back cover — noun the site of an archeological exploration they set up camp next to the dig — verb (= excavate) remove the inner part or the core of the mining company wants to excavate the hillside — noun (= excavation, digging) the act of digging there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton — noun (= shot, shaft) an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect his parting shot was 'drop dead' she threw shafts of sarcasm she takes a dig at me every chance she gets — verb (= jab, poke) poke or thrust abruptly he jabbed his finger into her ribs — verb (= comprehend) get the meaning of something Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter? — verb (= drudge) work hard She was digging away at her math homework Lexicographers drudge all day long

Synonyms dig synonyms

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dig English » English

excavate dig up delve burrow dig out poke excavation scratch jab grub spade scoop cultivate understand savvy hoe grasp comprehend compass apprehend unearth till scoop out mine hollow out hollow grok gibe turn over trench thrust stab shove scrape scrabble rout plunge plow plough get the picture drudge dredge digging cut carve bore turn up travail toil slam

Topics dig topics

What do people use dig to talk about?
Work and occupation Agriculture Land preparation

Plow a field
Work and occupation Occupation

Working with land
Work and occupation Occupation

Working with water
Work and occupation Tool Cutting tool

Poking tool
Physical actions Hide

Search
Physical actions Divide into pieces

Dig
Language and thought Want Request

Refuse to do something
Social behavior Conflict Fight

Defend
Social behavior Conflict War Military organization

Fort
Daily life Food Eat

Meal
Work and occupation Agriculture Tend a field

Uproot plants
Work and occupation Agriculture

Harvest
Work and occupation Agriculture

Agricultural tool
Work and occupation Hunt and fish

Trap
Work and occupation Working with buildings Parts of a building

Foundation
Physical actions Move something Move something in a direction

Take something out of something
Physical actions Move something Move something in a direction

Push
States Big Distance

Deep, shallow
States Time Aspectual time Start something

Beginning
Grammar Semantic constituents related to verbs Tense and aspect

Aspect--dynamic verbs

Conjugation dig conjugation

How do you conjugate dig?

dig · verb

Examples dig examples

How do I use dig in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I want you to dig a hole.
Those who dig a pit for others will be caught in it themselves.
Dig a little faster.
Not a drop of rain fell for a month, so they had to dig a well.
I'm so embarrassed I could dig a hole and crawl into it.
Badgers dig deep holes.
Dig a deep hole.
Those who dig a grave for others will themselves fall therein.
Those who dig a grave for others will fall therein.
If three workers dig two channels in four days, in how many days will six workers dig four channels?
Never dig straight down!
The kids dig in the sand.
Where did you dig that up again?
Some people tried to dig the treasure out, but they couldn't.
It took me about two and a half hours to dig a hole one meter in diameter and two meters in depth.
Children love to dig in the sand.
In 1848, people came to California to dig for gold.
Don't dig a pit for somebody to fall into, or you will end up in it yourself.

Movie subtitles

The key now is to go back in there, dig out these pieces and see if we can find any survivors, literally survivors.
You don't dig him, do you?
They dig soil in search of vaults, want to steal our Ukrainian treasures.
But mind! Do not dig the soil without me.
Take this shovel and dig a grave!
The coal belongs to everyone. Whether we dig it up on this side or the other.
For crying out loud, where is that guy? Go dig him up.
Could you dig one out of your hat? No.
We didn't come to dig in Egypt for medals.
We Egyptians are not permitted to dig up our ancient dead.
I will show you where to dig.
I ASKED YOU TO DIG UP SOMETHING I CAN USE AGAINST FIREFLY.
I SUGGEST WE DIG TRENCHES.
DIG TRENCHES?
I build railroads and roads, dig the ground, plant trees.
Yeah, I mean, I think people are really gonna dig this.
Go and dig him up.
Couldn't dig one out of your hat?
Come on, boy, dig in your heels.
I asked you to dig up something.
I suggest we dig trenches.
There isn't time to dig trenches.
Gold dig that guy for a meal?
Dig up all the pictures on that Andrews kid.
We'll let that go. I suppose you've come here. to dig up some great big state secret.
Or dig our way under.
Dig us up another Thin Man, will you, Nick?
Everybody dig and a-dig.
Where'd you dig her up, O'Connor?
So they dig the grave in the middle of the road where people pass all the time.
Dig into the morgue and send up all the art you have on Joan Gale.
What were you going to do, gold-dig that guy for a meal?
I suppose you've come here. to dig up some great big state secret.
Had to dig my way out. I got here as soon as I got the police.
Dig them out, will you?
Come on, dig in.
Come on. Let's get out of here, dig up some corn.

News and current affairs

Until then, water-starved communities dig for water, if they can find it and if they can afford to pump it out.
We can dig into their family histories in strife-torn Dagestan, or examine, once again, the lethal appeal of Islamist radicalism.
In order to understand feelings, we need to step back from their superficial expression in our conscious experiences and dig deeper into how the brain works when we have these experiences.
Dig deeper, and one finds that the economy's foundations are plagued with fragilities and imbalances.
In San Martín Jilotepeque, villagers were rounded up by Guatemala's military, forced to cook for soldiers and dig pits in the earth.
You will not notice how much ground the Bank has given up unless you dig deep in the report and look at the way the evidence is presented.
Sabadet Totodet took the judge to a clearing on the outskirts of town where he was forced to dig graves for more than 500 fellow prisoners who died in custody.
Unfortunately, while a wealth tax may be a sound way to help a country dig out of a deep fiscal pit, it is hardly a panacea.
No one in Bulgaria has been hurt so far, but reports arrive from Serbia describe ethnic Bulgarians living in that country being moved near to the war zone, possibly to dig trenches or for use as human shields.
Highly indebted countries, a group that nowadays includes most of the advanced economies, need growth to help them to dig themselves out.
Or you can take a poppy field and dig a large pond, fill it with fish, plant trees around it, buy some ducks and have your children watch them.
They may even be persuaded to dig a fishpond and to try and eek out a living from that.
Advances in robotics will continue to occur, with automated spacecraft that can dig and swim, and telescopes that can look for earth-like planets around nearby stars.
If you are not living in mortal fear of rape and beatings at home, you can organize your community to dig a new well.
Faced with credit losses, a central bank can either dig its way out through inflation or await recapitalization by taxpayers.
So how do central banks dig their way out of this deep hole?
But dig a little closer to look at the quality of democracy, above all in the condition of state institutions such as the judiciary and the police, and the picture becomes less rosy.
Would it encourage the middle-class professional and urban workers in Pakistan, disgusted by the excesses of the extremists, to dig in and see off fundamentalism?
These nasty creatures dig their fangs into the linings of the intestines in order to drink blood and lacerated flesh.
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