0 to break up and move soil using a tool, a machine, or your hands:
1 to search somewhere when you are looking for an object or information :
2 to push the side of someone's body quickly with your elbow (= the middle part of the arm where it bends) often as a way of sharing a private joke with that person or to get their attention
3 to like or understand something:
4 a remark that is intended to criticize, embarrass, or make a joke about someone:
He's always taking digs/a dig at me.
UK also He's always having/making dig/a dig at me.
5 the process of carefully removing soil and objects from an area of historical interest:
an archaeological dig
6 informal for lodgings :
7 to move and break up earth using a tool, a machine, or your hands, or to make a hole, channel, etc. by moving and breaking up earth:
9 a criticism, esp. a remark about someone that does not seem intentional but actually is:
His reference to how busy we were was a dig at us for forgetting to greet him properly.
10 the activity of removing earth to find objects of interest to history or science
The ground was frozen hard and was impossible to dig.
Workmen stumbled upon the mosaic while digging foundations for a new building.
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移土, 挖,挖掘(土), 鑿出,打(洞)…
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移土, 挖,挖掘(土), 凿出,打(洞)…
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remover la tierra (de), excavar, cavar…
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cavar…
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~が土を掘り返す, (穴など)を掘る…
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kazmak, kinaye, dokundurma…
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creuser, bêcher, enfoncer…
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remoure la terra (de), cavar, excavar…
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