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verb
- (intransitive) To dig ditches.
- (transitive) To dig ditches around.
- (ambitransitive) To deliberately not attend classes; to play hookey.
- (transitive) To discard or abandon.
- (ambitransitive, aviation) To deliberately crash-land an airplane on water.
- Alternative form of deech.
- (transitive) To throw into a ditch.
- crash or crash-land
- forsake
- cut a trench in, as for drainage
- make an emergency landing on water
- throw away
- sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly
noun
verb
- (intransitive, dialectal) To dig, to spade.
- (intransitive) To make a spitting sound, like an angry cat.
- (ambitransitive) To evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.
- (transitive, dialectal) To dig (something) using a spade; also, to turn (the soil) using a plough.
- (transitive) To use a spit to cook; to attend to food that is cooking on a spit.
- (transitive) To impale on a spit; to pierce with a sharp object.
- (transitive, slang, hip-hop) To rap, to utter.
- (transitive, dialectal) To plant (something) using a spade.
- (ambitransitive) To emit or expel in a manner similar to evacuating saliva from the mouth.
- (intransitive, slang, humorous) (in the form spitting) To spit facts; to tell the truth.
- (ambitransitive) To utter (something) violently.
- (impersonal) To rain or snow slightly.
- utter with anger or contempt
- expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth
- drive a skewer through
- rain gently
noun
- Likeness; used, usually in set phrases (see spitting image) of a person who exactly resembles someone else.
- (geography) A generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula or bar.
- (countable) An instance of spitting; specifically, a light fall of rain or snow.
- A thin metal or wooden rod on which meat is skewered for cooking, often over a fire.
- (uncountable) Synonym of slam (“card game”).
- (uncountable) Saliva, especially when expectorated.
- The depth to which the blade of a spade goes into the soil when it is used for digging; a layer of soil of the depth of a spade's blade.
- The amount of soil that a spade holds; a spadeful.
- the act of spitting (forcefully expelling saliva)
- a clear liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands of the mouth; moistens the mouth and starts the digestion of starches
- a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea
- a skewer for holding meat over a fire
verb
- (transitive) To make something by digging.
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To find or retrieve something buried.
- (transitive) To remove something by digging.
- (transitive, slang) To have penetrative sexual intercourse with someone.
- (intransitive, US, slang) To decamp; to leave a place hastily.
- (transitive, cricket) To block a yorker with the bottom of the bat, at the last second.
- remove, harvest, or recover by digging
- dig out from underneath earth or snow
- create by digging
verb
- (transitive or intransitive) To dig, particularly to create a ditch.
- (transitive) To steep [fibers] within a watercourse.
- (transitive) To surround with a ditch, to entrench.
- (transitive or intransitive) To raise a protective earthwork against a sea or river.
- (transitive, Scotland) To surround with a low dirt or stone wall.
- (transitive) To scour a watercourse.
- enclose with a dike
noun
- (dialect) Any navigable watercourse.
- (historical) A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to serve as a boundary marker.
- An embankment formed by the spoil from the creation of a ditch.
- (dialect) Any watercourse.
- (loosely, slang, usually derogatory and offensive) A non-heterosexual woman.
- A beaver's dam.
- (now chiefly Scotland) A low embankment or stone wall serving as an enclosure and boundary marker.
- A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to conduct water.
- (geology) A body of rock (usually igneous) originally filling a fissure but now often rising above the older stratum as it is eroded away.
- (dialect) Any small body of water.
- An earthwork raised to prevent inundation of low land by the sea or flooding rivers.
- (now chiefly Australia, slang) A place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
- (slang, usually derogatory and offensive) A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior.
- (slang, usually derogatory and offensive) A masculine woman.
- (figuratively) Any impediment, barrier, or difficulty.
- A wall, especially (obsolete outside heraldry) a masoned city or castle wall.
- (dialect) Any fence or hedge.
- (dialect) A jetty; a pier.
- (dialect, mining) A fissure in a rock stratum filled with intrusive rock; a fault.
- A raised causeway.
- (slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine
- a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea
verb
- (transitive) To make by digging or delving.
- (intransitive) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
- (transitive) To (directly or indirectly) cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight.
- (intransitive) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
- (ergative) To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.
- (transitive) To push (something) into something.
- (transitive, figurative) To cause to decline; to depress or degrade.
- (transitive, slang) To drink (especially something alcoholic).
- (transitive, slang) To pay absolutely.
- (transitive, snooker, pool, billiards, golf) To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.
- (intransitive, figuratively, of the heart or spirit) To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression.
- (intransitive) To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
- fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
- descend into or as if into some soft substance or place
- fall or descend to a lower place or level
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- embed deeply
- go under
- appear to move downward
- cause to sink
- fall or sink heavily
noun
- (graph theory) A destination vertex in a transportation network.
- A place that absorbs resources or energy.
- (theater) A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.
- A drain for carrying off wastewater.
- A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
- A basin used for holding water for washing.
- A depression in a stereotype plate.
- (computing, programming) An object or callback that captures events.
- (game development) One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.
- (uncountable) Descending motion; descent.
- (baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch.
- (geology) A sinkhole.
- (ecology) A habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source.
- (graph theory) A node in directed graph for which all of its edges go into it; one with no outgoing edges.
- A heat sink.
- (mining) An excavation smaller than a shaft.
- An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.
- a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof
- plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe
- a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it
- (technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system
verb
noun
- the act of digging
- the site of an archeological exploration
- an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow
- a small gouge (as in the cover of a book)
- An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place.
- The occupation of digging for gold.
- (music, slang) A rare or interesting vinyl record bought second-hand.
- (medicine, colloquial) Digoxin.
- (cricket) An innings.
- A thrust; a poke.
- (volleyball) A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
- A cutting, sarcastic remark.
verb
- (transitive) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
- remove, harvest, or recover by digging
- remove the inner part or the core of
- get the meaning of something
- turn up, loosen, or remove earth
- thrust down or into
- work hard
- create by digging
- poke or thrust abruptly
- (mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
- (volleyball) To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball
- To thrust; to poke.
- (figurative) To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
- (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.
noun
- the act of digging
- the site of an archeological exploration
- a hole in the ground made by excavating
- the act of extracting ores or coal etc. from the earth
- (countable) A site where an archaeological exploration is being carried out.
- (countable) A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping.
- (figurative) The act of discovering and exposing or developing (a quality).
- Especially, the trade of digging engineered holes for building foundations, roadbed preparations, and similar purposes.
- (countable) An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel.
- (countable) The material dug out in making a channel or cavity.
- (uncountable) Archaeological research that unearths buildings, tombs and objects of historical value.
- (countable) Something uncovered by archaeological excavation.
- (uncountable) The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.
verb
noun
- a playing card in the major suit that has one or more black figures on it
- a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot
- A garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging. Not to be confused with a shovel which is used for moving earth or other materials.
- (card games) A playing card marked with the symbol ♠.
- (electrical engineering) A device for terminating an electrical conductor resembling a small spade.
- (now offensive, ethnic slur) A black person.
- A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
verb
adj
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.
- To fix firmly; to establish.
- (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
- To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
- (intransitive, with "for" or "on", US) To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)
- (transitive) To root out; to abolish.
- (computing slang, transitive) To get root or privileged access on (a computer system or mobile phone), often through bypassing some security mechanism.
- (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, vulgar, slang) To sexually penetrate.
- (intransitive) Of a baby: to turn the head and open the mouth in search of food.
- (ambitransitive) To turn up or dig with the snout.
- (equestrianism, of a horse) To tug or pull at the reins aggressively by driving the head downwards while wearing a bit.
- To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
- cheer for
- become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
- come into existence, originate
- cause to take roots
- take root and begin to grow
- plant by the roots
- dig with the snout
noun
- (slang) A penis, especially the base of a penis.
- The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
- (arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
- (computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
- (aviation) The section of a wing immediately adjacent to the fuselage.
- (mathematical analysis) A zero (of an equation).
- (music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
- (arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, "the root of" is often abbreviated to "root").
- The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
- (figurative) The primary source; origin.
- (graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.
- (engineering) The bottom of the thread of a threaded object.
- (computing) In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure; the person who manages accounts on a UNIX system.
- The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
- An act of rummaging or searching.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A sexual partner.
- A root vegetable.
- (linguistic morphology) The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots.
- (linguistics) A word from which another word or words are derived.
- The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
- The lowest place, position, or part.
- a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground
- a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes
- the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- the embedded part of a bodily structure such as a tooth, nail, or hair
- someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
verb
- find by digging in the ground
- be shown or be found to be
- bend or lay so that one part covers the other
- discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining
- appear or become visible; make a showing
- (transitive) To reposition by rotating, flipping, etc., upwards.
- (intransitive, copulative) To show up; to appear suddenly or unexpectedly.
- (intransitive, slang) To party hard, especially when involving alcohol or drugs.
- (transitive, nautical) To belay or make fast (a line on a cleat or pin).
- (transitive) To cause to appear; to find by searching, etc.
- (transitive) To increase the amount of something by means of a control, such as the volume, heat, or light.
noun
verb
noun
- The largest size of such an edible clam, generally considered only fit for use in chowders and other clam dishes.
- A similar edible clam, of species Arctica islandica, found along coasts around the North Atlantic, generally in deeper waters.
- An edible clam with a hard shell found along the Atlantic Coast of North America, from species Mercenaria mercenaria, formerly Venus mercenaria.
- Atlantic coast round clams with hard shells; large clams usually used for chowders or other clam dishes
- an edible American clam; the heavy shells were used as money by some American Indians
verb
- (intransitive) To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
- (ambitransitive) To remove (rock or ore) from the ground.
- (by extension, figurative) To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
- To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.
- (transitive) To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
- To dig into, for ore or metal.
- (slang) To pick one's nose.
- (cryptocurrencies) To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.
- (by extension, figurative) To tap into.
- (transitive) To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
- get from the earth by excavation
- lay mines
noun
- An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
- (military) A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.
- (entomology) The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
- (figurative) Any source of wealth or resources.
- (computing) A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.
- (pyrotechnics) A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
- (military) A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.
- Alternative form of mien.
- excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted
- explosive device that explodes on contact; designed to destroy vehicles or ships or to kill or maim personnel
pron
verb
noun
- a fire iron consisting of a small shovel used to scoop coals or ashes in a fireplace
- a hand tool for lifting loose material; consists of a curved container or scoop and a handle
- a machine for excavating
- the quantity a shovel can hold
- Ellipsis of shovel hat.
- (especially US, loosely) Any shovel in the above senses, or any spade.
- A hand tool with a handle, used for moving portions of material such as earth, snow, and grain from one place to another, with some forms also used for digging. In strict usage differentiated from a spade, which is designed solely for small-scale digging and incidental tasks such as chopping of small roots.
- A mechanical part of an excavator with a similar function.
noun
- The quality of being or having a likely location in which to prospect for minerals.
- The state of being prospective rather than retrospective.
- (geometry) A projective relationship between a line and itself by projecting onto an intersecting line from a point on another line that intersects at the same point, and then back on to the first line from a different point on the first intersecting line.
verb
- dig a trench or trenches
- fortify by surrounding with trenches
- impinge or infringe upon
- cut a trench in, as for drainage
- set, plant, or bury in a trench
- cut or carve deeply into
- To have direction; to aim or tend.
- To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.
- (archaeology) To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.
- To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next.
- (usually followed by upon) To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.
- (military, infantry) To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.
- To cut furrows or ditches in.
noun
- a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth
- a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor
- any long ditch cut in the ground
- (archaeology) A pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological investigation.
- A long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground.
- (informal) A trench coat.
- (military) A narrow excavation as used in warfare, as a cover for besieging or emplaced forces.
verb
- (transitive) To make hollow; to dig out.
- (music, often with "up") To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music.
- (transitive) To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.
- (MTE, slang) To pick (someone) up
- (poker slang) To win the entire pot in a hand in which the pot was split.
- (transitive) To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).
- take out or up with or as if with a scoop
- get the better of
noun
- Any cup-shaped or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
- (surfing) The raised end of a surfboard.
- (automotive) An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
- (pinball) A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.
- A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
- A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
- The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.
- A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
- A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.
- (music) A note that begins slightly below and slides up to the target pitch.
- (film, television) A kind of floodlight with a reflector.
- A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
- The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
- The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
- (Scotland) The peak of a cap.
- street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate
- a hollow concave shape made by removing something
- a news report that is reported first by one news organization
- the quantity a scoop will hold
- a large ladle
- the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe
verb
noun
- (slang, British, originally Manchester, uncountable) Preceded by the: the police.
- (slang, British, originally Manchester, countable) A police officer, especially one serving with Greater Manchester Police.
- A pointed implement used to make holes in the ground in which to set out plants or to plant seeds.
- a wooden hand tool with a pointed end; used to make holes in the ground for planting seeds or bulbs
adj
- Characterised by scrabbling, or digging around.
- Rough, poor and uncultured.
- Scribbly.
- Impoverished, hardscrabble
- Having a rough texture; scratchy.
- Stunted.
- Of poor quality; poorly maintained.
- Sparse and scraggly.
- Thrown together; disorganized or slapdash.
- Covered in loose rocks or crumbling soil.
- Characterized by sparse, stunted vegetation, infertile.
- Difficult to negotiate; requiring scrambling.
- sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush
verb
- (transitive, by extension) To clumsily dig (through something).
- (transitive, by extension) To touch (someone) in a sexual way.
- (transitive) Of an animal, to draw the forefoot along the ground; to beat or scrape with the forefoot.
- (transitive) Of an animal, to dig through (something, such as a garbage can) with paws.
- touch clumsily
- scrape with the paws
noun
- (humorous, also furry fandom) A hand.
- (nonstandard or rustic) Alternative form of pa (“father”).
- The soft foot of a mammal or other animal, generally a quadruped, that has claws or nails; comparable to a human hand or foot.
- the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb
- a clawed foot of an animal especially a quadruped
verb
- (also intransitive) To excavate washdirt (“earth rich enough in metal to pay for washing”) from (a superficial deposit).
- To enclose or fence in (land) to form a paddock.
- (often passive voice) To place or keep (cattle, horses, sheep, or other animals) within a paddock (noun sense 1 or 2.4); hence, to provide (such animals) with pasture.
noun
- (derogatory) A contemptible, or malicious or nasty, person.
- (Scotland) A simple, usually triangular, sledge which is dragged along the ground to transport items.
- A toad.
- (also figuratively) A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially one used to exercise or graze horses or other animals.
- (horse racing) An enclosure next to a racecourse where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race.
- (sports, slang) A field on which a game is played; a playing field.
- (chiefly Australia, New Zealand, mining) A place in a superficial deposit where ore or washdirt (“earth rich enough in metal to pay for washing”) is excavated; also, a place for storing ore, washdirt, etc.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A field of grassland of any size, either enclosed by fences or delimited by geographical boundaries, especially a large area for keeping cattle or sheep.
- (motor racing) An area at a racing circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races.
- A frog.
- pen where racehorses are saddled and paraded before a race
verb
noun
noun
- the act of digging
- the site of an archeological exploration
- an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow
- a small gouge (as in the cover of a book)
- An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place.
- The occupation of digging for gold.
- (music, slang) A rare or interesting vinyl record bought second-hand.
- (medicine, colloquial) Digoxin.
- (cricket) An innings.
- A thrust; a poke.
- (volleyball) A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
- A cutting, sarcastic remark.
verb
- (transitive) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
- remove, harvest, or recover by digging
- remove the inner part or the core of
- get the meaning of something
- turn up, loosen, or remove earth
- thrust down or into
- work hard
- create by digging
- poke or thrust abruptly
- (mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
- (volleyball) To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball
- To thrust; to poke.
- (figurative) To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
- (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.
noun
- the act of digging
- the site of an archeological exploration
- a hole in the ground made by excavating
- the act of extracting ores or coal etc. from the earth
- (countable) A site where an archaeological exploration is being carried out.
- (countable) A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping.
- (figurative) The act of discovering and exposing or developing (a quality).
- Especially, the trade of digging engineered holes for building foundations, roadbed preparations, and similar purposes.
- (countable) An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel.
- (countable) The material dug out in making a channel or cavity.
- (uncountable) Archaeological research that unearths buildings, tombs and objects of historical value.
- (countable) Something uncovered by archaeological excavation.
- (uncountable) The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.
noun
- The quality of being or having a likely location in which to prospect for minerals.
- The state of being prospective rather than retrospective.
- (geometry) A projective relationship between a line and itself by projecting onto an intersecting line from a point on another line that intersects at the same point, and then back on to the first line from a different point on the first intersecting line.
verb
- (intransitive) To dig ditches.
- (transitive) To dig ditches around.
- (ambitransitive) To deliberately not attend classes; to play hookey.
- (transitive) To discard or abandon.
- (ambitransitive, aviation) To deliberately crash-land an airplane on water.
- Alternative form of deech.
- (transitive) To throw into a ditch.
- crash or crash-land
- forsake
- cut a trench in, as for drainage
- make an emergency landing on water
- throw away
- sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly
noun
verb
- (intransitive, dialectal) To dig, to spade.
- (intransitive) To make a spitting sound, like an angry cat.
- (ambitransitive) To evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.
- (transitive, dialectal) To dig (something) using a spade; also, to turn (the soil) using a plough.
- (transitive) To use a spit to cook; to attend to food that is cooking on a spit.
- (transitive) To impale on a spit; to pierce with a sharp object.
- (transitive, slang, hip-hop) To rap, to utter.
- (transitive, dialectal) To plant (something) using a spade.
- (ambitransitive) To emit or expel in a manner similar to evacuating saliva from the mouth.
- (intransitive, slang, humorous) (in the form spitting) To spit facts; to tell the truth.
- (ambitransitive) To utter (something) violently.
- (impersonal) To rain or snow slightly.
- utter with anger or contempt
- expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth
- drive a skewer through
- rain gently
noun
- Likeness; used, usually in set phrases (see spitting image) of a person who exactly resembles someone else.
- (geography) A generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula or bar.
- (countable) An instance of spitting; specifically, a light fall of rain or snow.
- A thin metal or wooden rod on which meat is skewered for cooking, often over a fire.
- (uncountable) Synonym of slam (“card game”).
- (uncountable) Saliva, especially when expectorated.
- The depth to which the blade of a spade goes into the soil when it is used for digging; a layer of soil of the depth of a spade's blade.
- The amount of soil that a spade holds; a spadeful.
- the act of spitting (forcefully expelling saliva)
- a clear liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands of the mouth; moistens the mouth and starts the digestion of starches
- a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea
- a skewer for holding meat over a fire
verb
- (transitive) To make something by digging.
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To find or retrieve something buried.
- (transitive) To remove something by digging.
- (transitive, slang) To have penetrative sexual intercourse with someone.
- (intransitive, US, slang) To decamp; to leave a place hastily.
- (transitive, cricket) To block a yorker with the bottom of the bat, at the last second.
- remove, harvest, or recover by digging
- dig out from underneath earth or snow
- create by digging
verb
- (transitive or intransitive) To dig, particularly to create a ditch.
- (transitive) To steep [fibers] within a watercourse.
- (transitive) To surround with a ditch, to entrench.
- (transitive or intransitive) To raise a protective earthwork against a sea or river.
- (transitive, Scotland) To surround with a low dirt or stone wall.
- (transitive) To scour a watercourse.
- enclose with a dike
noun
- (dialect) Any navigable watercourse.
- (historical) A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to serve as a boundary marker.
- An embankment formed by the spoil from the creation of a ditch.
- (dialect) Any watercourse.
- (loosely, slang, usually derogatory and offensive) A non-heterosexual woman.
- A beaver's dam.
- (now chiefly Scotland) A low embankment or stone wall serving as an enclosure and boundary marker.
- A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to conduct water.
- (geology) A body of rock (usually igneous) originally filling a fissure but now often rising above the older stratum as it is eroded away.
- (dialect) Any small body of water.
- An earthwork raised to prevent inundation of low land by the sea or flooding rivers.
- (now chiefly Australia, slang) A place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
- (slang, usually derogatory and offensive) A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior.
- (slang, usually derogatory and offensive) A masculine woman.
- (figuratively) Any impediment, barrier, or difficulty.
- A wall, especially (obsolete outside heraldry) a masoned city or castle wall.
- (dialect) Any fence or hedge.
- (dialect) A jetty; a pier.
- (dialect, mining) A fissure in a rock stratum filled with intrusive rock; a fault.
- A raised causeway.
- (slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine
- a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea
verb
- (transitive) To make by digging or delving.
- (intransitive) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
- (transitive) To (directly or indirectly) cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight.
- (intransitive) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
- (ergative) To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.
- (transitive) To push (something) into something.
- (transitive, figurative) To cause to decline; to depress or degrade.
- (transitive, slang) To drink (especially something alcoholic).
- (transitive, slang) To pay absolutely.
- (transitive, snooker, pool, billiards, golf) To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.
- (intransitive, figuratively, of the heart or spirit) To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression.
- (intransitive) To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
- fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
- descend into or as if into some soft substance or place
- fall or descend to a lower place or level
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- embed deeply
- go under
- appear to move downward
- cause to sink
- fall or sink heavily
noun
- (graph theory) A destination vertex in a transportation network.
- A place that absorbs resources or energy.
- (theater) A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.
- A drain for carrying off wastewater.
- A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
- A basin used for holding water for washing.
- A depression in a stereotype plate.
- (computing, programming) An object or callback that captures events.
- (game development) One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.
- (uncountable) Descending motion; descent.
- (baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch.
- (geology) A sinkhole.
- (ecology) A habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source.
- (graph theory) A node in directed graph for which all of its edges go into it; one with no outgoing edges.
- A heat sink.
- (mining) An excavation smaller than a shaft.
- An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.
- a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof
- plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe
- a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it
- (technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system
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verb
noun
- a playing card in the major suit that has one or more black figures on it
- a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot
- A garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging. Not to be confused with a shovel which is used for moving earth or other materials.
- (card games) A playing card marked with the symbol ♠.
- (electrical engineering) A device for terminating an electrical conductor resembling a small spade.
- (now offensive, ethnic slur) A black person.
- A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
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- (intransitive) To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.
- To fix firmly; to establish.
- (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
- To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
- (intransitive, with "for" or "on", US) To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)
- (transitive) To root out; to abolish.
- (computing slang, transitive) To get root or privileged access on (a computer system or mobile phone), often through bypassing some security mechanism.
- (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, vulgar, slang) To sexually penetrate.
- (intransitive) Of a baby: to turn the head and open the mouth in search of food.
- (ambitransitive) To turn up or dig with the snout.
- (equestrianism, of a horse) To tug or pull at the reins aggressively by driving the head downwards while wearing a bit.
- To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
- cheer for
- become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
- come into existence, originate
- cause to take roots
- take root and begin to grow
- plant by the roots
- dig with the snout
noun
- (slang) A penis, especially the base of a penis.
- The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
- (arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
- (computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
- (aviation) The section of a wing immediately adjacent to the fuselage.
- (mathematical analysis) A zero (of an equation).
- (music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
- (arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, "the root of" is often abbreviated to "root").
- The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
- (figurative) The primary source; origin.
- (graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.
- (engineering) The bottom of the thread of a threaded object.
- (computing) In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure; the person who manages accounts on a UNIX system.
- The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
- An act of rummaging or searching.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A sexual partner.
- A root vegetable.
- (linguistic morphology) The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots.
- (linguistics) A word from which another word or words are derived.
- The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
- The lowest place, position, or part.
- a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground
- a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes
- the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- the embedded part of a bodily structure such as a tooth, nail, or hair
- someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
verb
- find by digging in the ground
- be shown or be found to be
- bend or lay so that one part covers the other
- discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining
- appear or become visible; make a showing
- (transitive) To reposition by rotating, flipping, etc., upwards.
- (intransitive, copulative) To show up; to appear suddenly or unexpectedly.
- (intransitive, slang) To party hard, especially when involving alcohol or drugs.
- (transitive, nautical) To belay or make fast (a line on a cleat or pin).
- (transitive) To cause to appear; to find by searching, etc.
- (transitive) To increase the amount of something by means of a control, such as the volume, heat, or light.
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- The largest size of such an edible clam, generally considered only fit for use in chowders and other clam dishes.
- A similar edible clam, of species Arctica islandica, found along coasts around the North Atlantic, generally in deeper waters.
- An edible clam with a hard shell found along the Atlantic Coast of North America, from species Mercenaria mercenaria, formerly Venus mercenaria.
- Atlantic coast round clams with hard shells; large clams usually used for chowders or other clam dishes
- an edible American clam; the heavy shells were used as money by some American Indians
verb
- (intransitive) To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
- (ambitransitive) To remove (rock or ore) from the ground.
- (by extension, figurative) To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
- To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.
- (transitive) To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
- To dig into, for ore or metal.
- (slang) To pick one's nose.
- (cryptocurrencies) To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.
- (by extension, figurative) To tap into.
- (transitive) To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
- get from the earth by excavation
- lay mines
noun
- An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
- (military) A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.
- (entomology) The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
- (figurative) Any source of wealth or resources.
- (computing) A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.
- (pyrotechnics) A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
- (military) A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.
- Alternative form of mien.
- excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted
- explosive device that explodes on contact; designed to destroy vehicles or ships or to kill or maim personnel
pron
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noun
- a fire iron consisting of a small shovel used to scoop coals or ashes in a fireplace
- a hand tool for lifting loose material; consists of a curved container or scoop and a handle
- a machine for excavating
- the quantity a shovel can hold
- Ellipsis of shovel hat.
- (especially US, loosely) Any shovel in the above senses, or any spade.
- A hand tool with a handle, used for moving portions of material such as earth, snow, and grain from one place to another, with some forms also used for digging. In strict usage differentiated from a spade, which is designed solely for small-scale digging and incidental tasks such as chopping of small roots.
- A mechanical part of an excavator with a similar function.
verb
- dig a trench or trenches
- fortify by surrounding with trenches
- impinge or infringe upon
- cut a trench in, as for drainage
- set, plant, or bury in a trench
- cut or carve deeply into
- To have direction; to aim or tend.
- To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.
- (archaeology) To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.
- To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next.
- (usually followed by upon) To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.
- (military, infantry) To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.
- To cut furrows or ditches in.
noun
- a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth
- a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor
- any long ditch cut in the ground
- (archaeology) A pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological investigation.
- A long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground.
- (informal) A trench coat.
- (military) A narrow excavation as used in warfare, as a cover for besieging or emplaced forces.
verb
- (transitive) To make hollow; to dig out.
- (music, often with "up") To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music.
- (transitive) To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.
- (MTE, slang) To pick (someone) up
- (poker slang) To win the entire pot in a hand in which the pot was split.
- (transitive) To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).
- take out or up with or as if with a scoop
- get the better of
noun
- Any cup-shaped or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
- (surfing) The raised end of a surfboard.
- (automotive) An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
- (pinball) A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.
- A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
- A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
- The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.
- A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
- A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.
- (music) A note that begins slightly below and slides up to the target pitch.
- (film, television) A kind of floodlight with a reflector.
- A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
- The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
- The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
- (Scotland) The peak of a cap.
- street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate
- a hollow concave shape made by removing something
- a news report that is reported first by one news organization
- the quantity a scoop will hold
- a large ladle
- the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe
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noun
- (slang, British, originally Manchester, uncountable) Preceded by the: the police.
- (slang, British, originally Manchester, countable) A police officer, especially one serving with Greater Manchester Police.
- A pointed implement used to make holes in the ground in which to set out plants or to plant seeds.
- a wooden hand tool with a pointed end; used to make holes in the ground for planting seeds or bulbs
noun
- the act of digging
- the site of an archeological exploration
- an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow
- a small gouge (as in the cover of a book)
- An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place.
- The occupation of digging for gold.
- (music, slang) A rare or interesting vinyl record bought second-hand.
- (medicine, colloquial) Digoxin.
- (cricket) An innings.
- A thrust; a poke.
- (volleyball) A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
- A cutting, sarcastic remark.
verb
- (transitive) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
- remove, harvest, or recover by digging
- remove the inner part or the core of
- get the meaning of something
- turn up, loosen, or remove earth
- thrust down or into
- work hard
- create by digging
- poke or thrust abruptly
- (mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
- (volleyball) To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball
- To thrust; to poke.
- (figurative) To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
- (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.
verb
- (transitive, by extension) To clumsily dig (through something).
- (transitive, by extension) To touch (someone) in a sexual way.
- (transitive) Of an animal, to draw the forefoot along the ground; to beat or scrape with the forefoot.
- (transitive) Of an animal, to dig through (something, such as a garbage can) with paws.
- touch clumsily
- scrape with the paws
noun
- (humorous, also furry fandom) A hand.
- (nonstandard or rustic) Alternative form of pa (“father”).
- The soft foot of a mammal or other animal, generally a quadruped, that has claws or nails; comparable to a human hand or foot.
- the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb
- a clawed foot of an animal especially a quadruped
verb
- (also intransitive) To excavate washdirt (“earth rich enough in metal to pay for washing”) from (a superficial deposit).
- To enclose or fence in (land) to form a paddock.
- (often passive voice) To place or keep (cattle, horses, sheep, or other animals) within a paddock (noun sense 1 or 2.4); hence, to provide (such animals) with pasture.
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- (derogatory) A contemptible, or malicious or nasty, person.
- (Scotland) A simple, usually triangular, sledge which is dragged along the ground to transport items.
- A toad.
- (also figuratively) A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially one used to exercise or graze horses or other animals.
- (horse racing) An enclosure next to a racecourse where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race.
- (sports, slang) A field on which a game is played; a playing field.
- (chiefly Australia, New Zealand, mining) A place in a superficial deposit where ore or washdirt (“earth rich enough in metal to pay for washing”) is excavated; also, a place for storing ore, washdirt, etc.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A field of grassland of any size, either enclosed by fences or delimited by geographical boundaries, especially a large area for keeping cattle or sheep.
- (motor racing) An area at a racing circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races.
- A frog.
- pen where racehorses are saddled and paraded before a race
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- Characterised by scrabbling, or digging around.
- Rough, poor and uncultured.
- Scribbly.
- Impoverished, hardscrabble
- Having a rough texture; scratchy.
- Stunted.
- Of poor quality; poorly maintained.
- Sparse and scraggly.
- Thrown together; disorganized or slapdash.
- Covered in loose rocks or crumbling soil.
- Characterized by sparse, stunted vegetation, infertile.
- Difficult to negotiate; requiring scrambling.
- sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush