Definitions for dig
dɪgdig

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. dig, excavation, archeological sitenoun

   the site of an archeological exploration

   "they set up camp next to the dig"

2. shot, shaft, slam, dig, barb, jibe, gibenoun

   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"

3. dignoun

   a small gouge (as in the cover of a book)

   "the book was in good condition except for a dig in the back cover"

4. excavation, digging, dignoun

   the act of digging

   "there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton"

5. dig, jabverb

   the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow

   "she gave me a sharp dig in the ribs"

6. dig, delve, cut into, turn oververb

   turn up, loosen, or remove earth

   "Dig we must"; "turn over the soil for aeration"

7. dig, dig outverb

   create by digging

   "dig a hole"; "dig out a channel"

8. labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moilverb

   work hard

   "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"

9. dig, dig up, dig outverb

   remove, harvest, or recover by digging

   "dig salt"; "dig coal"

10. digverb

    thrust down or into

    "dig the oars into the water"; "dig your foot into the floor"

11. excavate, dig, hollowverb

    remove the inner part or the core of

    "the mining company wants to excavate the hillside"

12. jab, prod, stab, poke, digverb

    poke or thrust abruptly

    "he jabbed his finger into her ribs"

13. grok, get the picture, comprehend, savvy, dig, grasp, compass, apprehendverb

    get the meaning of something

    "Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?"

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1. Dignoun

   a critical and sometimes sarcastic or insulting remark, but often good-humored; as, celebrities at a roast must suffer through countless digs.

2. Dignoun

   An archeological excavation site.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To DIGverb

   preter. dug, or digged; part. pass. dug, or digged.

   Etymology: dic , Saxon, a ditch; dyger, Danish, to dig.

   1. To pierce with a spade.

   Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall; and when I had digged in the wall, I beheld a door. Ezek. viii. 8.

   2. To form by digging.

   Seek with heart and mouth to build up the walks of Jerusalem, which you have broken down; and to fill up the mines that you have digged by craft and subtlety, to overthrow the same. John Whitgift.

   He built towers in the desert, and digged many wells; for he had much cattle. 2 Chro. xxvi. 10.

   3. To cultivate the ground by turning it with a spade.

   The walls of your garden, without their furniture, look as ill as those of your house; so that you cannot dig up your garden too often. William Temple.

   Be first to dig the ground, be first to burn
   The branches lopt. John Dryden, Virg. Georg. ii.

   4. To pierce with a sharp point.

   A rav’nous vulture in his open’d side,
   Her crooked beak and cruel talons try’d;
   Still for the growing liver digg’d his breast,
   The growing liver still supply’d the feast. John Dryden, Æn.

   5. To gain by digging.

   It is digged out of even the highest mountains, and indeed all other parts of the earth contingently and indifferently; as the pyrites. John Woodward.

   Nor was the ground alone requir’d to bear
   Her annual income to the crooked share;
   But greedy mortals, rummaging her store,
   Digg’d from her entrails first the precious ore. John Dryden, Ovid.

2. To Digverb

   To work with a spade; to work in making holes, or turning the ground.

   They long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than far hid treasures. Job iii. 21.

   They have often dug into lands that are described in old authors, as the places where such particular statues or obelisks stood, and have seldom failed of success in their pursuits. Joseph Addison, Travels.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Digverb

   to turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, open, or loosen, as if with a spade

2. Digverb

   to get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold

3. Digverb

   to hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well

4. Digverb

   to thrust; to poke

5. Digverb

   to work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve

6. Digverb

   to take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore

7. Digverb

   to work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously

8. Dignoun

   a thrust; a punch; a poke; as, a dig in the side or the ribs. See Dig, v. t., 4

9. Digverb

   a plodding and laborious student

10. Etymology: [OE. diggen, perh. the same word as diken, dichen (see Dike, Ditch); cf. Dan. dige to dig, dige a ditch; or (?) akin to E. 1st dag. 67.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Dig

   dig, v.t. to excavate: to turn up the earth: to cultivate with a spade: to poke or thrust, as one's elbow into another's side, or spurs into a horse.—v.i. to till the ground; to occupy one's self in digging; (U.S. slang) to study hard:—pr.p. dig′ging; pa.t. and pa.p. dug, (B.) digged.—n. a thrust, a poke: (U.S. slang) a hard student.—adj. Dig′gable, that may be dug.—n. Dig′ger, a person or animal that digs: a machine for digging, as a steam-digger.—n.pl. Dig′gings, places where mining is carried on, esp. for gold: (slang, orig. American) lodgings, rooms.—Dig in, to cover over by digging: to work hard; Dig out (U.S. slang), to decamp.—Digger Indians, degraded Indian tribes of California and Nevada, who live by digging roots. [Prob. O. Fr. diguer, to dig; of Teut. origin.]

Rap DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. digverb

   To understand; "can you dig it?"

2. digverb

   To like.

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Matched Categories

1. • Creating By Removal
   • Dent
   • Excavate
   • Remark
   • Remove
   • Thrust
   • Understand
   • Work

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'dig' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3693

2. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'dig' in Verbs Frequency: #592

Anagrams for dig »

1. GDI

2. IgD

3. gid

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of dig in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of dig in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of dig in a Sentence

1. Clifford Villalon:

   Dippers' are those who dig in into different issues and make commentaries without actually doing anything to resolve issues.

2. Tom Jones:

   We're entrusting someone who has, I think, questionable issues in his background to lead an agency with an enormous amount of power, that should be a concern to every American and the U.S. Senate should dig in deeply on that.

3. Herman Cain:

   So be it. Let them go back and dig up eight-year-old stuff. I will be able to explain it this time where they wouldn't let me explain it the last time.

4. Babak Pasdar:

   They can dig down into that data and learn more about the individuals, what their hobbies are, what their vices are, what skeletons they have in their closet.

5. Wilfried Yameogo:

   We went from 39.2 billion (CFA francs) in losses to 49.3 billion in just one harvest. If we continue like that we'll just dig the hole deeper.

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