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Definition of Dig
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Dig
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. To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold. To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well. To thrust; to poke. To work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve. To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore. To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously. A thrust; a punch; a poke; as, a dig in the side or the ribs. See Dig, v. t., 4. A plodding and laborious student. To work hard or drudge; To study ploddingly and laboriously. 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. A tool for digging. An act of digging. An amount to be dug. = Gouge. Related Definitions:
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Dig Quotations
The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. George Bernard Shaw I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream. Olivier Martinez I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay. Bob Dylan You only have a week to do a show. I mean, there's only so deep you can dig in that week. David Hyde Pierce Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages. Michel de Montaigne |
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Dig Translations
dig in Danish is grave dig in Dutch is opgraven, rooien dig in Finnish is kaivaa dig in French is creusez, creusons, creusent, creuser dig in German is graben dig in Norwegian is grave dig in Spanish is cavar |
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