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dig
CEFRA1
/dɪɡ/
verb
Türkçe translations
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In plain English
- 01
verb
To make a hole in the ground using a tool.
- 02
verb
To search for or discover information.
Examples
On colder days, they curl up or dig a hole in the snow.
Some people tried to dig the treasure out, but they couldn't.
At a glance
Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 1
- Citations
- 5
- Synonyms
- 3
Also pronounced
- /dɪd͡ʒ/
Deep Dive
verb
Extra meaningsTo get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
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.
More examples
In contextIf the plane can't pull out of the dive it is in, it'll dig a hole in the ground.
In the wintertime, heavy truck tires dig into the road, forming potholes.
They dug an eight-foot ditch along the side of the road.
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Origin
verb
From Middle English diggen (“to dig”, 13th c.), an alteration of dīken, from Old English dīcian (“to dig a ditch, mound up earth”), from Proto-West Germanic *dīkōn, which see for cognates. This verb is denominal from Proto-Germanic *dīkaz (“pool, puddle; dyke, ditch”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- (“to stab, dig”). The form with g may have been influenced by Old French *diguer, a variant of dikier, itself from the West Germanic verb above. French forms with g are attested only in the 15th c., thus 200 years later than in English. On the other hand, French has according forms also for the underlying noun (cf. digue) and the phonetic development is more plausible in French than in Englis...