digging — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

1. The action performed by a person or thing that digs.

   Uso

   • numerabile
   • non numerabile

2. A place where ore is dug, especially certain localities in California, Australia, etc. where gold is obtained.

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   • numerabile
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3. Accommodation; lodgings; digs.

   Uso

   • colloquiale
   • numerabile
   • datato
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4. Region; locality.

   Uso

   • arcaico
   • colloquiale
   • numerabile
   • in-plural
   • often
   • non numerabile

   Esempi

   Altri esempi (1)

   This knock-down argument in favour of big mosquitoes used the Hoosier up, and the logician started on a new track, to explain how numerous bear were in his "diggins," where he represented them to be "about as plenty as blackberries, and a little plentifuler.”

Sostantivo

1. the act of digging

   Sinonimi

   excavationdig

   Termini più generali

   creating by removal

   Esempi

   there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton