| 单词 | dig |
| 释义 | dig (once / 218 pages) 1vn 2vn 3v 4v When you dig, you scoop or shovel up dirt, sand, or some other material. Your dog might whine to go outside so she can dig a hole in your dad's garden. You can dig with your hands, a shovel, or even a tractor or backhoe. City crews dig up roads to repair water pipes, and gardeners dig small for planting bulbs. You can even say you dig your brother in the side when you jab him there. If someone says, "I dig you," they mean, "I understand," and if they say, "I dig your outfit," they like it. Both slang usages come from 1930s African American English. WORD FAMILYdig: digger, digging, digs+/digger: diggers/digging: diggings USAGE EXAMPLESMore than two thousand people worked on the extension, tunnelling through granite and digging through sand and mud. The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) As reported in this space for years, I totally dig the Seattle Boat Show. Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) Weirdly enough, it never occurred to me that smashing busts of Thatcher might be considered a little dig. The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1v turn up, loosen, or remove earth Dig we must Syn|Hypo|Hyper cut into, delve, turn over furrow, groove, rut hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove root, rootle, routdig with the snout spadedig (up) with a spade shoveldig with or as if with a shovel troweluse a trowel on; for light garden work or plaster work burrow, tunnelmove through by or as by digging ridgespade into alternate ridges and troughs remove, take, take away, withdraw remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract 2v remove, harvest, or recover by digging dig salt dig coal Syn|Hyper dig out, dig up excavate, unearth recover through digging 3v remove the inner part or the core of Syn|Hypo|Hyper excavate, hollow drive excavate horizontally ditch, trenchcut a trench in, as for drainage remove, take, take away, withdraw remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract 4v create by digging dig a hole dig out a channel Syn|Hypo|Hyper dig out lift take (root crops) out of the ground trenchdig a trench or trenches dibblemake a hole with a wooden hand tool core out, hollow, hollow out remove the interior of 5n the act of digging Syn|Hyper digging, excavation creating by removal the act of creating by removing something 6n the site of an archeological exploration they set up camp next to the dig Syn|Exp|Hyper archeological site, excavation Byblos an ancient Mediterranean seaport that was a thriving city state in Phoenicia during the second millennium BC; was the chief port for the export of papyrus; located in Lebanon to the north of Beirut; now partially excavated land site, site the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located) 7n a small gouge (as in the cover of a book) 2the book was in good condition except for a dig in the back cover Hyper dent, ding, gouge, nick an impression in a surface (as made by a blow) 1v thrust down or into dig the oars into the water dig your foot into the floor Hyper thrust push forcefully 2v poke or thrust abruptly Syn|Hyper jab, poke, prod, stab thrust push forcefully 3n the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow she gave me a sharp dig in the ribs Syn|Hyper jab touch, touching the act of putting two things together with no space between them 4n an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect 3she takes a dig at me every chance she gets Syn|Hypo|Hyper barb, gibe, jibe, shaft, shot, slam cheap shot an unnecessarily aggressive and unfair remark directed at a defenseless person comment, input, remark a statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief or adds information v work hard 4She was digging away at her math homework Syn|Hyper drudge, fag, grind, labor, labour, moil, toil, travail do work, work be employed v get the meaning of something Syn|Hypo|Hyper apprehend, compass, comprehend, get the picture, grasp, grok, savvy figure understand catch on, cotton on, get it, get onto, get wise, latch on, tumble, twigunderstand, usually after some initial difficulty intuitknow or grasp by intuition or feeling digestarrange and integrate in the mind understand know and comprehend the nature or meaning of |
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