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Definition: Digging |
DiggingNoun1. The act of digging; "there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "digging" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream of digging, denotes that you will never be in want, but life will be an uphill affair. To dig a hole and find any glittering substance, denotes a favorable turn in fortune; but to dig and open up a vast area of hollow mist, you will be harrassed with real misfortunes and be filled with gloomy forebodings. Water filling the hole that you dig, denotes that in spite of your most strenuous efforts things will not bend to your will. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | Digging up or out with a spade turning soil. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | Mining operations in coal or other minerals. (references) |
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Synonyms: DiggingSynonyms: dig (n), excavation (n). (additional references) |
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Screenplays | Can't we have one meeting that doesn't end with us digging up a corpse (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Why in the world do you wanna go digging any deeper into the Nite Owl killings, Lieutenant (L.A. Confidential; writing credit: Brian Helgeland) Keep digging. (The Train Robbers; writing credit: Burt Kennedy) Xander, how do you feel about digging through Giles' personal files and seeing what you can find (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Start digging holes in this county, no telling what'll come up. (Lone Star; writing credit: John Sayles) | |
Lyrics | Go digging in stones (IF YOU WANT TO FIND LOVE; performing artist: Roger) That I ain't digging this (I'm Just Talkin' 'Bout Tonight; performing artist: Toby Keith) Digging up my soul (Elevation; performing artist: U2) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Digging for Gold (1927) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Digging out of the sand - time for a photo. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Digging a hole for a bench mark. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | "Digging Razor Clams at Copalis" In: "Puget Sound and Western Washington Cities-Towns Scenery", by Robert A. Reid, Robert A. Reid Publisher, Seattle, 1912. P. 159. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Digging out the Tigvariak Island Camp. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Digging out a weasel - not a fun job when it's 40 degrees below zero. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | The Barter Island Camp starts taking shape after a few days of digging. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Time to start digging out the equipment covered by snow over the winter. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | The soil at the dam removal site is tested for possible contaminants to prevent leaching or erosion into the stream bed when removing the dam. The site is also being searched for any significant archeological remains before the final digging begins. The scientists and archeologists determined through the testing that it was safe to proceed with the dam removal. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | AML Poorman, Vale District, Oregon. Digging test hole for Repository. Credit: John Craig. |  | Oil rig digging for oil in the ground in southeastern New Mexico, Roswell Field Office. Credit: Unknown. |
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| "Digging by the sea" by Marlon Bruin Commentary: "My son digging at the Texelbeach." | "Digging in the sand" by Kd Kelly Commentary: "At the beach on a warm, february afternoon in southern california (if you use this i'd love to hear from you -- thanks)." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Play | Caption |
 | Man digging in the dirt with a shovel. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | By dint of digging graves for others, they open their own. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | But that we may not be delayed, you shall be digging the bait meanwhile |
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Health | Histoplasmosis is a disease caused when airborne spores of the fungus Histoplasma capsulatum are inhaled into the lungs, the primary infection site. This microscopic fungus, which is found throughout the world in river valleys and soil where bird or bat droppings accumulate, is released into the air when soil is disturbed by plowing fields, sweeping chicken coops, or digging holes. (references) | |
Economic History | Guyana | U.S. military medical and engineering teams have conducted training exercises in Guyana, digging wells, building schools and clinics, and providing medical treatment. (references) |
Human Rights | Afghanistan | According to Amnesty International, there were reports that the Taliban forced prisoners to build a new story for the Kandahar prison building, and that some Taliban prisoners held by Masood's forces were forced to work in life-threatening conditions, such as digging trenches in mined areas. (references) |
Worker Rights | United Arab Emirates | A farm worker in Al-Ain died after being buried alive in sand while digging a well. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dead. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Digging" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 90.19% of the time. "Digging" is used about 753 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 90.19% | 679 | 9,730 |
| Noun (singular) | 7.43% | 56 | 45,296 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 1.46% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.93% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 753 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "digging". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Gittah-hepher | N/A | Biblical | Digging |
| Hapharaim | N/A | Biblical | Digging |
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Expressions using "digging": digging in ♦ digging out ♦ digging rooted vines ♦ digging shovel ♦ digging under ♦ digging up ♦ ditch digging ♦ trench digging. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "digging": digging-out, digging-stick. | |
Ending with "digging": a-digging, canal-digging, castle-digging, dirt-digging, gold-digging, grave-digging, gum-digging, peat-digging, re-digging, sand-digging, scratch-digging, well-digging. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "digging"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | strofkë (burrow, chase, covert, den, digs, lair), rrëmim (excavation, rummage, scavenging), nxjerrje (discharge, drawing, eduction, ejection, elicitation, emission, excretion, extraction, extrusion, heave, inference, leakage, outage, output, promulgation, recovery, runout, spew, stripping, superannuation), gërmime arkeologjike (excavations), gërmim (excavation), banim (diggings, habitation, inhabitancy, inhabitation, residence). (various references) | |
Arabic | حفر (bore, burrow, burrowing, dig, digging in, ditch, drill, drilling, etch, excavate, excavation, fetch, fossilize, gnaw, grave, hew, inscribe, make a hole in, pick up, pit, plough, rut, scrape, sink), خندقة (retrenchment), إستخراج بالحفر, إسراج باطن الأرض. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | изкопаване (excavation), дълбаене. (various references) | |
Chinese | 开掘 (Dig, digs, Dug). (various references) | |
Czech | kopání. (various references) | |
Danish | udgravning (cutting, excavation, exhumation, to dig away, trenching), omgravning (turning up), grave med spade (turning up). (various references) | |
Dutch | spitten (dig, grub, spade), ontgraving (excavation). (various references) | |
Finnish | kaivusyvyys, kaivannon syvyys, kääntää maata (to turn, to turn up, turning up). (various references) | |
French | profondeur de dragage, profondeur de creusement, labour, forage, creusement (dig), creusant, bêchage. (various references) | |
German | grabend (fossorial, spading, trenching). (various references) | |
Greek | σκάψιμο (dig in, plough in, turning up). (various references) | |
Hebrew | עדירה (hoeing), חתירה (ditch, effort, sabotage, subversion, undermining), חפירה (burrow, dig, ditch, excavation, sap, trench, tunnel), חטוט (pecking, scratching, search, slotting), חטטני (ferreting, meticulous), חטטנות (faultfinding, nosiness, snooping), כריה (mining). (various references) | |
Hungarian | földmunka (alignment, earthwork, movement of earth masses). (various references) | |
Italian | zappatura (hoeing, turning up), vangatura (turning up), scavo (dig, excavation, groundwork), altezza di scavo, altezza di dragaggio. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 開鑿 (cutting, excavation), 開削 (cutting, excavation). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かいさく (adaptation, cutting, excavation, masterpiece, splendid work). (various references) | |
Korean | 팜 (Wave). (various references) | |
Manx | reuyree, cleiy (delve, dig, dig out, earthwork, harvest, hedge, hedging, quarry). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iggingday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | profundidade de escavação, mina de ouro (gold mine), escavação (dig, jerk, pit, scoop), cavagem da terra, cava (armhole, cave, cavity, ditch, hole, pit), aposentos (apartment, flat, gunroom). (various references) | |
Romanian | zonã (area, belt, country, district, neighborhood, neighbourhood, parish, patch, province, sector, space, surface, zone), zãcãminte, sãpat (dig), sãpare (dig, hoeing, picking), sãpãturã (excavation, hoeing), minã (cast, claymore, countenance, face, mien, mine, pit), locuinţã (abode, accommodations, apartment, dwelling, home, homestead, house, housing, inhabitation, living, Lodge, lodging, lodgment, place, residence, rooms, tenement, whereabouts). (various references) | |
Russian | рытье, копать рытье, копание, добыча (capture, catch, crop, haul, kill, loot, out-turn, plunderage, quarry, ravin, recovery, spoil, swag). (various references) | |
Scottish | cladhach, ceachladh, brutach. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kopanje (picking). (various references) | |
Shona | nzope (digging blade). (various references) | |
Spanish | cava (hollow, turning up). (various references) | |
Swedish | utgrävning (excavation), schakt (excavation, shaft), grävning (dig, excavation), grävande (delving), gräva (burrow, cut, delve, dig, excavate, grub, mine, scoop, sink, spade). (various references) | |
Turkish | kazma (dig, digger, excavation, Mattock, pick, pickax, pickaxe, Pike). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розкопки, риття, копання (excavation). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự xới (dig), sự bới (dig), sự đào (dig, excavation, picking). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cavare, fossura. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "digging": diggings. (additional references) | |
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"Digging" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dagging, diggen, Diggin, digin, dugin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "digging" (pronounced di"ging) |
| 4 | -i" g i ng | gigging, reneging, rigging. |
| 3 | -g i ng | bagging, begging, binging, bogging, bootlegging, bragging, bugging, cataloging, cataloguing, chugging, clogging, debugging, demagoguing, dogging, dragging, drugging, fatiguing, flagging, flogging, hogging, hugging, intriguing, jitterbugging, jogging, lagging, leapfrogging, legging, logging, lugging, mugging, nagging, pegging, plaguing, plugging, sagging, sandbagging, shrugging, slogging, slugging, snagging, snugging, tagging, tugging, unflagging, wagging, zigzagging. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-g-g-g-i-i-n" | |
-3 letters: ding, nidi. | |
-4 letters: dig, din, gid, gig, gin. | |
-5 letters: id, in. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-g-g-g-i-i-n" | |
+1 letter: diggings. | |
+3 letters: disgorging, niggarding. | |
+4 letters: dingdonging, disengaging, dogfighting, ruggedizing. | |
+5 letters: aggrandising, aggrandizing. | |
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