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# dig

«dig» in Mova's school dictionary: **to make a hole in the ground, for example with a spade or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (dig, digs, dug, digging); noun (a dig, digs)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To dig is to make a hole in the ground, for example with a spade or with hands or paws. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dig/#m1)

2) To dig something up is to get it out of the ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dig/#m2)

3) A dig is a place where archaeologists dig to find old things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dig/#m3)

4) A dig can be a little poke, or an unkind remark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dig/#m4)

5) «Dig in» means start eating. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dig/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In school maths: digging a length or a hole at a rate; holes dug; amount = rate × time. In science and history: archaeologists dig up fossils and old objects; worms dig tunnels. In everyday life: digging in the garden or at the beach. Phrases: «dig a hole», «dig up», «dig in», «dig deep» (try very hard).

### examples

- He digs 2 m of ditch an hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dig/#x1)
- 3 workers dug 12 holes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dig/#x2)
- How long to dig 10 m? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dig/#x3)
- Each hole needs 1 tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dig/#x4)
- The dog dug a hole and buried its bone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dig/#x5)
- We dug for treasure on the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dig/#x6)
- Archaeologists dug up a Roman coin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dig/#x7)
- Dinner's ready, dig in! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dig/#x8)

### note

Past «dug» (not «digged»). Maths: a rate over time: amount = rate × time. Trap: more diggers dig faster, so the time goes down. Safety: never dig near cables or pipes without a grown-up.

### In the corpora

- [Elephants use their tusks to dig for water and salt, strip bark, move things and defend themselves.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory/10/)
- [Woodpeckers hammer wood up to about 20 times a second to find grubs, dig nests and drum to claim a territory.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/35-birds-of-every-kind/14/)
- [A wild animal spends most of its day busy: searching for food, digging, climbing, sniffing and chasing.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/112-training-and-enrichment/0/)
- [Tenrecs look like hedgehogs or shrews but are actually related to elephants and aardvarks, African animals that dig for ants.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/164-madagascar-chameleons-geckos-tenrecs-baobabs-and-darwins-moth/10/)
- [After rare rains the outback can burst into flowers, and some frogs dig into the ground and wait years for the next rain.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/165-the-australian-outback-kangaroos-emus-thorny-devils-and-runaway-toads/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dig» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dig/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.