| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To dig, scoop, delve, gouge or disinter.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To sink or deepen. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To pick or scrape. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To scour or scan. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To rip, cleave, lacerate, rend or tear. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To crack, rent or fissure. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To clip or fleece. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To gash or slash. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To investigate, rummage, examine, explore or ransack.[Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Present participle conjugation of the verb excavate.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (excavate) | 1. Recover through digging; "Schliemann excavated Troy"; "excavate gold".[Wordnet]. 2. Find by digging in the ground.[Wordnet]. 3. Form by hollowing; "Carnegie had a lake excavated for Princeton University's rowing team"; "excavate a cavity".[Wordnet]. 4. Remove the inner part or the core of; "the mining company wants to excavate the hillside".[Wordnet]. 5. Lay bare through digging; "Schliemann excavated Troy".[Wordnet]. 6. To hollow out; to form cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging; as, to excavate a ball; to excavate the earth.[Websters]. 7. To form by hollowing; to shape, as a cavity, or anything that is hollow; as, to excavate a canoe, a cellar, a channel.[Websters]. 8. To dig out and remove, as earth.[Websters]. 9. Base verb from the following inflections: excavating, excavated, excavates, excavator, excavators, excavatingly and excavatedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "EXCAVATING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1800. (references) |
Specialty Definition: EXCAVATING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Making hollow.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of excavate. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: EXCAVATING
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Excavating pump | A kind of dredging apparatus for excavating under water, in which silt and loose material mixed with water are drawn up by a pump. --Knight. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: EXCAVATING
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Excavating cableway | Mining | Cableway fitted with a bucket suitably designed for excavating. (references) | |
| Supervisor, excavating | Occupations | Supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in excavating and grading right-of-way for construction of projects, such as highways, streets, drainage ditches, and dams: Measures distances from reference points to locate boundaries of construction site. Directs work crews engaged in operating vehicles and machines to dump, scrape, and spread dirt. Verifies curvature of graded surface, using hand level. Performs other duties as described under SUPERVISOR (any industry) Master Title. May supervise bituminous paving crew [SUPERVISOR, ASPHALT PAVING (construction) ]. May supervise work crew engaged in operating machines to tamp, roll, and smooth surface for subgrade of highway and be designated Supervisor, Fine Grading (construction). May supervise workers engaged in laying drainage tile and concrete and metal culverts and be designated Supervisor, Culvert Laying (construction). May be designated according to activity of workers supervised as Supervisor, Dumping (construction); Supervisor, Rough Grading (construction). (references) | |
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Topics by Level of Interest: excavate | ||||
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| Excavate | 10 | Excavate | 10 | |
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