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Princeton's WordNet

  1. excavation, digging, dignoun

    the act of digging

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

Wiktionary

  1. diggingnoun

    The action performed by a person or thing that digs.

Wikipedia

  1. Digging

    Digging is the process of using some implement such as claws, hands, or tools, to remove material from a solid surface, usually soil or sand on the surface of the Earth. Digging is actually the combination of two processes, the first being the breaking or cutting of the surface, and the second being the removal and relocation of the material found there. In a simple digging situation, this may be accomplished in a single motion, with the digging implement being used to break the surface and immediately fling the material away from the hole or other structure being dug. Many kinds of animals engage in digging, either as part of burrowing behavior or to search for food or water under the surface of the ground. Historically, humans have engaged in digging for both of these reasons, and for a variety of additional reasons, such as engaging in agriculture and gardening, searching for minerals, metals, and other raw materials such as during mining and quarrying, preparing for construction, creating fortifications and irrigation, and also excavations in archaeology, searching for fossils and rocks in palaeontology and geology and burial of the dead.

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  1. digging

    Digging is the activity or process of removing material, typically soil or dirt, from the ground using tools such as shovels or excavators, or even using hands or claws. This could be for various purposes such as planting, mining, archaeological exploration, construction, or creating a hole or tunnel.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Digging

    of Dig

  2. Diggingnoun

    the act or the place of excavating

  3. Diggingnoun

    places where ore is dug; especially, certain localities in California, Australia, and elsewhere, at which gold is obtained

  4. Diggingnoun

    region; locality

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of digging in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of digging in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of digging in a Sentence

  1. Stu Scheller:

    They have kind of changed their disposition in the Marine Corps, they’re digging in and they’d like to burn our son Lt. Col. Scheller.

  2. John Kerry:

    I'm as proud of this as anything I've been engaged in, no country has ever done what we did. I don't know of any other nation in the world that goes to the lengths we go in active duty, military people digging at active sites, pulling up the remains of a C-130, or helicopter, or something, in order to complete the mission.

  3. Stephanie Kibler:

    Everything I learned about money stemmed from me digging into my finances in college, figuring out where I stood and just what was going on inside my personal financial machine, i learned how to be careful with money, to plan and save, but most importantly, how to make my money work for me so that I can use it to live the life I want, even despite those student loans.

  4. Tobey Maguire:

    Once I got past being horrified about some of the stuff I heard, then digging into it and trying to understand where it came from was fascinating, he's a tragedy.

  5. President Biden:

    The policies of the Biden administration are playing out right now at home, anybody going to fill up their tanks...in Wyoming are spending $20 extra. … We’re seeing inflation, and every family in America is digging into their wallets as a result of Biden policies, which I believe have been bad for our economy and certainly bad for the workers in our country.

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