Dig
Dig (dig) , transitive verb
[Old English diggen, perh. the same word as diken, dichen (see Dike, Ditch); compare Danish dige to dig, dige a ditch; or (?) akin to English 1st dag. r67.]
1.
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.
Be first to dig the ground.
2.
To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.
3.
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.
To thrust; to poke. [Colloquial]
You should have seen children... dig and push their mothers under the sides, saying thus to them: Look, mother, how great a lubber doth yet wear pearls.
5.
To like; enjoy; admire. [Colloquial]
Collocations (4)
To dig down , to undermine and cause to fall by digging; as, to dig down a wall.
To dig from or To dig out of or To dig out or To dig up , to get out or obtain by digging; as, to dig coal from or out of a mine; to dig out fossils; to dig up a tree. The preposition is often omitted; as, the men are digging coal, digging iron ore, digging potatoes.
To dig in , (a) to cover by digging; as, to dig in manure. (b) To entrench oneself so as to give stronger resistance; -- used of warfare or negotiating situations.
to dig in one's heels , To offer stubborn resistance.
Dig , intransitive verb
1.
To work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve.
Dig for it more than for hid treasures.
I can not dig; to beg I am ashamed.
2.
(Mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
3.
To work hard or drudge;
To study ploddingly and laboriously. [United States; Colloquial]
Peter dug at his books all the harder.
4.
(Machinery) Of a tool: To cut deeply into the work because ill set, held at a wrong angle, or the like, as when a lathe tool is set too low and so sprung into the work.
Collocations (1)
To dig out , to depart; to leave, esp. hastily; decamp. [Slang, United States]
dig (dig) , transitive verb
1.
To understand; as, do you dig me?. [slang]
2.
To notice; to look at; as, dig that crazy hat!. [slang]
3.
To appreciate and enjoy; as, he digs classical music as well as rock. [slang]
Dig , noun
1.
A thrust; a punch; a poke; as, a dig in the side or the ribs. See Dig, transitive verb, 4. [Colloquial]
2.
A plodding and laborious student. [Cant, United States]
3.
A tool for digging. [Dialectal English]
4.
An act of digging.
5.
An amount to be dug.
6.
(Mining) same as Gouge.
7.
a critical and sometimes sarcastic or insulting remark, but often good-humored; as, celebrities at a roast must suffer through countless digs.
8.
An archeological excavation site.