excavation

ex·ca·va·tion

E0261500 (ĕk′skə-vā′shən)n.1. The act or process of excavating.2. A hole formed by excavating.

ex•ca•va•tion

(ˌɛks kəˈveɪ ʃən)

n. 1. a hole made by excavating. 2. the act of excavating. 3. an area in which excavating has been done or is in progress, as an archaeological site. [1605–15; < Latin]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	excavation - the act of digging; "there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton"digging, digcreating by removal - the act of creating by removing something
	2.	excavation - the site of an archeological exploration; "they set up camp next to the dig"archeological site, digarchaeology, archeology - the branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their culturesland site, site - the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located); "a good site for the school"
	3.	excavation - a hole in the ground made by excavatingartefact, artifact - a man-made object taken as a wholebore-hole, drill hole, bore - a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposesdelf - an excavation; usually a quarry or minediggings, digs - an excavation for ore or precious stones or for archaeologyditch - a long narrow excavation in the earthmine - excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extractedmineshaft - excavation consisting of a vertical or sloping passageway for finding or mining ore or for ventilating a minestone pit, quarry, pit - a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate; "a British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'"pool - an excavation that is (usually) filled with waterroot cellar, cellar - an excavation where root vegetables are storedwell - a deep hole or shaft dug or drilled to obtain water or oil or gas or brineworking, workings - a mine or quarry that is being or has been worked
	4.	excavation - the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earthminingproduction - (economics) manufacturing or mining or growing something (usually in large quantities) for sale; "he introduced more efficient methods of production"placer mining - mining valuable minerals from a placer by washing or dredgingopencast mining, strip mining - the mining of ore or coal from an open minebore-hole, drill hole, bore - a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposesheading, drift, gallery - a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine; "they dug a drift parallel with the vein"fathom, fthm - (mining) a unit of volume (equal to 6 cubic feet) used in measuring bodies of orerag - break into lumps before sorting; "rag ore"hush - run water over the ground to erode (soil), revealing the underlying strata and valuable mineralshush - wash by removing particles; "Wash ores"mine - get from the earth by excavation; "mine ores and metals"strip mine, surface mine, surface-mine - extract (ore) from a strip-minedrive - excavate horizontally; "drive a tunnel"extract - separate (a metal) from an ore

excavation

noun hole, mine, pit, ditch, shaft, cutting, cut, hollow, trench, burrow, quarry, dig, trough, cavity, dugout, diggings excavations in the earth

Translations

发掘挖掘

excavate

(ˈekskəveit) verb1. to dig up (a piece of ground etc) or to dig out (a hole) by doing this. 挖掘 挖掘2. in archaeology, to uncover or open up (a structure etc remaining from earlier times) by digging. The archaeologist excavated an ancient fortress. 發掘 发掘ˌexcaˈvation noun 挖(發)掘 挖（发）掘 ˈexcavator noun a machine or person that excavates. 挖土機 发掘者，挖掘器