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TO DIG IN

Definition: TO DIG IN

TO DIG IN

1. To cover by digging; as, to dig in manure.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: TO DIG IN

English words defined with "TO DIG IN": MineSand waspTin pennyUnderditch. (references)
Specialty definitions using "TO DIG IN": assistant signal maintainercactus grab, ClayDanaidesearth-auger operator, EARTH-BORING-MACHINE OPERATOR, electric-sewer-cleaning-machine operatorFARMWORKER, BULBS, Fernando Florestan, flaming shotsGAS-MAIN FITTER, grabbing cranehole-digger operatorinhaul cablelandscaper, like nailing jelly to a treeMAINTENANCE WORKER, MUNICIPAL, miner's rightO'tium cum DigSEPTIC-TANK INSTALLER, SEWER-PIPE CLEANER, SIGNAL MAINTAINER HELPER, supervisor, grove, supervisor, orchard, SUPERVISOR, TREE-FRUIT-AND-NUT FARMING, SWIMMING POOL INSTALLER-AND-SERVICERtower excavator. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: TO DIG IN

SubjectTopicQuote

Worker Rights

Afghanistan

There have been reports that the Taliban forced prisoners to perform construction work at Kandahar prison and that the Taliban used forced labor after its takeover of the Shomali plains area in the summer of 1999. There were credible reports that Masood forced Taliban prisoners to work on road and airstrip construction projects under life-threatening conditions (such as requiring them to dig in mined areas). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expression: TO DIG IN

Expression using "TO DIG IN": to dig in one's heels. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: TO DIG IN

Language Translations for "TO DIG IN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Japanese Kanji 

  

立 る (to barricade oneself in, to be besieged, to hold, to shut oneself up), 立て る (to barricade oneself in, to be besieged, to hold, to shut oneself up). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

たて"もる (to barricade oneself in, to be besieged, to hold, to shut oneself up). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay igday inay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: TO DIG IN

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

infodio infodi infossum. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: TO DIG IN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-g-i-i-n-o-t"

-1 letter: doting, indigo, tiding.

-2 letters: digit, dingo, doing, idiot, ingot, iodin, nitid, tigon, tondi.

-3 letters: ding, dint, doit, dong, inti, into, nidi, nodi, ting, tong.

-4 letters: dig, din, dit, dog, don, dot, gid, gin, git, god, got, ion, nit, nod, nog, not, tin, tod, tog, ton.

-5 letters: do, go, id, in, it, no, od, on, ti.

 Words containing the letters "d-g-i-i-n-o-t"
 

+1 letter: dittoing, iodating.

 

+2 letters: coediting, digestion, digitonin, digitoxin, granitoid, indigotin, outriding, oxidating.

 

+3 letters: antidoting, deorbiting, depositing, diagnostic, digestions, digitonins, digitoxins, disporting, disrooting, distorting, divagation, dominating, gadolinite, indagation, indigotins, intaglioed, iodinating, originated, outbidding, outchiding, outdriving, outfinding, outguiding, outwinding.

 

+4 letters: auditioning, coadmitting, codirecting, copyediting, defoliating, deglutition, denigration, designation, detoxifying, diagnostics, diazotizing, discounting, disjointing, dislocating, dismounting, divagations, dogfighting, dogmatizing, dovetailing, gadolinites, grandiosity, guillotined, indagations, indigestion, indignation, introducing, invigorated, methodising, methodizing, misdoubting, outbuilding, outdrinking, outstriding, outyielding, overediting, postediting, redigestion, videotaping, withholding.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: TO DIG IN


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F      44 49 47      49 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01000100 01001001 01000111 00100000 01001001 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#68 &#73 &#71 &#32 &#73 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0044 0049 0047      0049 004E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5449238434124348

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Translations: Ancient
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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