dIGnoun

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  astronomynatural-sciencesdwarf irregular galaxy

digverb詞源 1/dɪɡ/

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  To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.

  • They dug an eight-foot ditch along the side of the road.
  • In the wintertime, heavy truck tires dig into the road, forming potholes.
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  To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.

  • to dig potatoes
  • to dig up gold
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  businessminingTo take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.

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  datedslangTo work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.

  • Peter dug at his books all the harder.
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  To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.

  • to dig up evidence
  • to dig out the facts
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  To thrust; to poke.

  • He dug an elbow into my ribs and guffawed at his own joke.
  • 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.
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  ball-gamesgameshobbiesTo defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball

dignoun詞源 1/dɪɡ/

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  An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place.

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  Any act of digging to find or retrieve something.

  • Iron Springs offers a guided clam dig for first timers or those who are rusty at spotting the clam's show at low tide. It includes a license and all the equipment you'll need to catch your limit on Copalis Beach […]
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  A thrust; a poke.

  • He guffawed and gave me a dig in the ribs after telling his latest joke.
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  archaicslangA hard blow, especially (boxing) a straight left-hander delivered under the opponent's guard.

  • […] 'let him go, I tell you, or I'll be after breaking your ugly mug,' and with that I gave him a dig that knocked him into smithereens.
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  ball-gamesgameshobbiesA defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.

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  ball-gamescricketgamesAn innings.

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  A cutting, sarcastic remark.

  • Buckram ! that's a dig at my trade.
  • Why this already very fast train should be speeded up still further, when none of the other more easily timed S.R. West of England trains has a single minute pared from its schedule, is unexplained - unless this is a playful dig at the Western Region, most of whose expresses, by reason of additional stops, will be decelerated from the same date.
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  The occupation of digging for gold.

  • Don Quixote told us that Western Australia was the same to him as any other country, except that it possessed the charm of novelty, and he assured us that as soon as he was well enough he would be off on the "dig" once more.

digverb詞源 2/dɪɡ/

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  datedslangTo understand.

  • You dig?
  • McCord has blown. Mitchell has blown. No tap on my telephone / Halderman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell, and Dean / It follows a pattern if you dig what I mean
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  datedslangTo appreciate, or like.

  • Baby, I dig you.
  • «And dig her!» yelled Dean, pointing at another woman. «Oh, I love, love, love women! I think women are wonderful! I love women!»

dignoun詞源 3/dɪd͡ʒ/

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  medicinesciencesDigoxin.

  • dig toxicity

dignoun詞源 4

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  obsoleteA duck.

  • Powltrey, &c, &c. Item ten turkeys … Item three Digs [an old Cheshire word for duck] and a Drake … Item ffower Capons … [The word's gloss has been inserted by Earwaker]
  • dig, or digg, s.—A duck. A gentleman introduced a man to an old lady in America as an inhaitant of Cheshire, her old county. "I'll soon see," said she, "if he is reet Cheshire born. Tell me," said she to the man, "what a dig, a snig, a grig, a peckled poot, and a peannot are?" B. Kennett in his Glossary of the British Museum, has the word "dig." "As fierce as a dig," is a Lancashire and probably a Cheshire proverb, and reminds one of the Cloucestershire name for a sheep, viz.: "A Cotswold lion."

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• dwarf irregular galaxy