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digging
(encz) | digging,kopání n: Zdeněk Brož |
digging
(encz) | digging,podrývání [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
Digging
(gcide) | Dig \Dig\ (d[i^]g), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dug (d[u^]g) or
Digged (d[i^]gd); p. pr. & vb. n. Digging. -- Digged is
archaic.] [OE. diggen, perh. the same word as diken, dichen
(see Dike, Ditch); cf. Dan. dige to dig, dige a ditch; or
(?) akin to E. 1st dag. [root]67.]
1. To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to
open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or
other sharp instrument; to pierce, open, or loosen, as if
with a spade.
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Be first to dig the ground. --Dryden.
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2. To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.
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3. To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing
earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well.
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4. To thrust; to poke. [Colloq.]
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You should have seen children . . . dig and push
their mothers under the sides, saying thus to them:
Look, mother, how great a lubber doth yet wear
pearls. --Robynson
(More's
Utopia).
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5. To like; enjoy; admire. The whole class digs Pearl Jam.
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To dig down, to undermine and cause to fall by digging; as,
to dig down a wall.
To dig from, To dig out of, To dig out, To dig up, to
get out or obtain by digging; as, to dig coal from or out
of a mine; to dig out fossils; to dig up a tree. The
preposition is often omitted; as, the men are digging
coal, digging iron ore, digging potatoes.
To dig in,
(a) to cover by digging; as, to dig in manure.
(b) To entrench oneself so as to give stronger resistance;
-- used of warfare or negotiating situations.
to dig in one's heels To offer stubborn resistance.
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Digging
(gcide) | Digging \Dig"ging\, n.
1. The act or the place of digging or excavating.
Syn: excavation, dig.
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2. pl. Places where ore is dug; especially, certain
localities in California, Australia, and elsewhere, at
which gold is obtained. [Recent]
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3. pl. Region; locality. [Low]
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4. a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or
confusion).
Syn: ransacking, rummage.
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digging
(wn) | digging
n 1: the act of digging; "there's an interesting excavation
going on near Princeton" [syn: excavation, digging,
dig] |
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diggings
(mass) | diggings
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deep digging
(encz) | deep digging,podrývání [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
digging
(encz) | digging,kopání n: Zdeněk Broždigging,podrývání [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
digging up
(encz) | digging up, n: |
diggings
(encz) | diggings, n: |
ditch digging machine
(encz) | ditch digging machine,příkopovač [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
drainage with deep digging
(encz) | drainage with deep digging,drenáž s podrýváním [eko.] RNDr. Pavel
Piskač |
drainage with digging
(encz) | drainage with digging,drenáž s podrýváním [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
keep digging
(czen) | Keep Digging, Watson (reply to NSS),KDW[zkr.] |
diggings
(gcide) | diggings \diggings\ n.
temporary living quarters.
Syn: digs, domiciliation, lodgings, pad.
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Gold diggings
(gcide) | Gold \Gold\ (g[=o]ld), n. [AS. gold; akin to D. goud, OS. & G.
gold, Icel. gull, Sw. & Dan. guld, Goth. gul[thorn], Russ. &
OSlav. zlato; prob. akin to E. yellow. [root]49, 234. See
Yellow, and cf. Gild, v. t.]
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1. (Chem.) A metallic element of atomic number 79,
constituting the most precious metal used as a common
commercial medium of exchange. It has a characteristic
yellow color, is one of the heaviest substances known
(specific gravity 19.32), is soft, and very malleable and
ductile. It is quite unalterable by heat (melting point
1064.4[deg] C), moisture, and most corrosive agents, and
therefore well suited for its use in coin and jewelry.
Symbol Au (Aurum). Atomic weight 196.97.
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Note: Native gold contains usually eight to ten per cent of
silver, but often much more. As the amount of silver
increases, the color becomes whiter and the specific
gravity lower. Gold is very widely disseminated, as in
the sands of many rivers, but in very small quantity.
It usually occurs in quartz veins (gold quartz), in
slate and metamorphic rocks, or in sand and alluvial
soil, resulting from the disintegration of such rocks.
It also occurs associated with other metallic
substances, as in auriferous pyrites, and is combined
with tellurium in the minerals petzite, calaverite,
sylvanite, etc. Pure gold is too soft for ordinary use,
and is hardened by alloying with silver and copper, the
latter giving a characteristic reddish tinge. [See
Carat.] Gold also finds use in gold foil, in the
pigment purple of Cassius, and in the chloride, which
is used as a toning agent in photography.
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2. Money; riches; wealth.
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For me, the gold of France did not seduce. --Shak.
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3. A yellow color, like that of the metal; as, a flower
tipped with gold.
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4. Figuratively, something precious or pure; as, hearts of
gold. --Shak.
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Age of gold. See Golden age, under Golden.
Dutch gold, Fool's gold, Gold dust, etc. See under
Dutch, Dust, etc.
Gold amalgam, a mineral, found in Columbia and California,
composed of gold and mercury.
Gold beater, one whose occupation is to beat gold into gold
leaf.
Gold beater's skin, the prepared outside membrane of the
large intestine of the ox, used for separating the leaves
of metal during the process of gold-beating.
Gold beetle (Zool.), any small gold-colored beetle of the
family Chrysomelid[ae]; -- called also golden beetle.
Gold blocking, printing with gold leaf, as upon a book
cover, by means of an engraved block. --Knight.
Gold cloth. See Cloth of gold, under Cloth.
Gold Coast, a part of the coast of Guinea, in West Africa.
Gold cradle. (Mining) See Cradle, n., 7.
Gold diggings, the places, or region, where gold is found
by digging in sand and gravel from which it is separated
by washing.
Gold end, a fragment of broken gold or jewelry.
Gold-end man.
(a) A buyer of old gold or jewelry.
(b) A goldsmith's apprentice.
(c) An itinerant jeweler. "I know him not: he looks like a
gold-end man." --B. Jonson.
Gold fever, a popular mania for gold hunting.
Gold field, a region in which are deposits of gold.
Gold finder.
(a) One who finds gold.
(b) One who empties privies. [Obs. & Low] --Swift.
Gold flower, a composite plant with dry and persistent
yellow radiating involucral scales, the {Helichrysum
St[oe]chas} of Southern Europe. There are many South
African species of the same genus.
Gold foil, thin sheets of gold, as used by dentists and
others. See Gold leaf.
Gold knobs or Gold knoppes (Bot.), buttercups.
Gold lace, a kind of lace, made of gold thread.
Gold latten, a thin plate of gold or gilded metal.
Gold leaf, gold beaten into a film of extreme thinness, and
used for gilding, etc. It is much thinner than gold foil.
Gold lode (Mining), a gold vein.
Gold mine, a place where gold is obtained by mining
operations, as distinguished from diggings, where it is
extracted by washing. Cf. Gold diggings (above).
Gold nugget, a lump of gold as found in gold mining or
digging; -- called also a pepito.
Gold paint. See Gold shell.
Gold pheasant, or Golden pheasant. (Zool.) See under
Pheasant.
Gold plate, a general name for vessels, dishes, cups,
spoons, etc., made of gold.
Mosaic gold. See under Mosaic.
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digging
(wn) | digging
n 1: the act of digging; "there's an interesting excavation
going on near Princeton" [syn: excavation, digging,
dig] |
digging up
(wn) | digging up
n 1: the act of digging something out of the ground (especially
a corpse) where it has been buried [syn: exhumation,
disinterment, digging up] |
diggings
(wn) | diggings
n 1: an excavation for ore or precious stones or for archaeology
[syn: diggings, digs]
2: temporary living quarters [syn: diggings, digs,
domiciliation, lodgings, pad] |
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