Pronunciation
- IPA: /dɪɡ/
dig (digs, present participle digging; past and past participle dug)
- (transitive, intransitive) 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.attention en
- They dug an eight-foot ditch along the side of the road.
- In the wintertime, heavy truck tires dig into the road, forming potholes.
- If the plane can't pull out of the dive it is in, it'll dig a hole in the ground.
- My seven-year-old son always digs a hole in the middle of his mashed potatoes and fills it with gravy before he starts to eat them.
- (transitive) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
- to dig potatoes; to dig up gold
- (mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
- (US, slang, dated) To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
- Peter dug at his books all the harder.
- (figurative) To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
- to dig up evidence; to dig out the facts
- To thrust; to poke.
- He dug an elbow into my ribs and guffawed at his own joke.
(More's Utopia) - 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.
- (volleyball) To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball
- French: creuser
- German: graben
- Italian: scavare
- Portuguese: cavar, escavar
- Russian: копа́ть
- Spanish: excavar, ahondar, cavar
dig (plural digs)
- An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place.
- (US, colloquial, dated) A plodding and laborious student.
- A thrust; a poke.
- He guffawed and gave me a dig in the ribs after telling his latest joke.
- (UK, dialect, dated) A tool for digging.
- (volleyball) A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
- A cutting, sarcastic remark; a jibe.
- (archaeological investigation) excavation
- (thrust or poke) jab
- French: fouille
- German: Grabung, Ausgrabung
- Italian: scavi
- Portuguese: escavação
- Russian: раско́пки
- Spanish: excavación
- IPA: /dɪɡ/
dig (digs, present participle digging; past and past participle dug)
- (slang) To understand or show interest in. attention en
- You dig?
- (slang) To appreciate, or like.
- Baby, I dig you.
- Spanish: picar el interés, llamar la atención
- French: kiffer
- Portuguese: curtir, gostar
- Spanish: caer bien, simpatizar
- IPA: /dɪd͡ʒ/
dig (uncountable)
- (medicine, colloquial) Digoxin.
- dig toxicity
DIG
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dig (plural digs)
- (galaxy) Initialism of dwarf irregular galaxy
dIG
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dig (plural digs)
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