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# excavator

«excavator» in Mova's school dictionary: **a big machine with an arm and a bucket for digging up…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (an excavator, excavators); verb excavate

### meaning for a pupil

1) An excavator is a big machine with an arm and a bucket for digging up earth and rocks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excavator/#m1)

2) An excavator is also a person who digs carefully at a site to find old objects, like an archaeologist. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excavator/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Everyday life (building sites, roadworks), children's books about diggers, and history lessons about archaeology. Safety: stay away from working machines. Phrases: hydraulic excavator, mini excavator.

### examples

- The excavator dug a deep hole for the new pool. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excavator/#x1)
- My little brother loves watching excavators. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excavator/#x2)
- The excavator's bucket scooped up the soil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excavator/#x3)
- Archaeologists worked as careful excavators at the Roman site. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excavator/#x4)
- Stay far away from a working excavator. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excavator/#x5)
- A mini excavator fitted through the garden gate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excavator/#x6)

### note

Countable. Everyday name: digger (UK, Australia) or backhoe (a type, US). Say «EX-ka-vay-ter».

### Trees and pragmatics

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