dig
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3.9
- noun
- /dɪg/
:
excavación
- I read he was working on a dig near Nineveh.
- an archaeological dig
- a dig site
- finds from a dig
Now, we're trying to conduct this dig in a quite a quiet, calm fashion.
- Now, we're trying to conduct this dig in a quite a quiet, calm fashion.
- The last dig out in Mongolia, there were some problems with that.
- Because let me be very clear, passion is not an archaeological dig.
- Do we have a, a chronological sequence of things in a, in a stratified dig?
Examples
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We read every report out of your dig before we made the first trip back.
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If it's so great, the dig will be going on for years.
Fiction book (1997) -
Groups of about 30 come daily to tour three dig sites on the side of the hill.
Academic text (2006) -
Then we walked out to the dig site, which was located about a quarter mile from Harper Hall.
Fiction book (1998) -
The latest graphic appears on the screen: a sophisticated archaeological dig inside a red cave.
Fiction book (1990) -
The Italian mission built a castle on the same site, which served as their dig house, storeroom, and laboratory.
Academic text (2006) -
And it's sort of similar to an archaeological dig where the deeper you dig, the more ancient is the layer that you uncover.
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And, right now, apparently, there's some kind of German archeological dig going on in the desert outside of Cairo.
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The projects vary from performing archaeological digs in Peru to studying sample reef areas in the Bahamas.
Academic text (2001) -
Archaeologists are excited about the discoveries made at the ancient dig in the valley.
Synonyms
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3.7
A place where people dig to find objects from past human life
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5.4
A hole in the ground made by digging, often for building or finding old things
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3.7
A place where people dig to find old objects like bones and tools
A place where people dig to find old objects or valuable stones
An area where people dig for minerals or ancient objects
A hole dug in the ground to get stone or clay
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Etymology
The word dig for an archaeological excavation comes from the old action of making a ditch or hole in the ground, and people long ago used the same word for places where they dug. So a dig is the site where people make holes to find old objects or fossils.