excavation
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ex·ca·va·tion
(ĕk′skə-vā′shən)n.
1. The act or process of excavating.
2. A hole formed by excavating.
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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]
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Noun | 1. | excavation - the act of digging; "there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton" creating 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" archaeology, archeology - the branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures | |
3. | excavation - a hole in the ground made by excavating bore-hole, drill hole, bore - a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes delf - an excavation; usually a quarry or mine ditch - a long narrow excavation in the earth mine - excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted mineshaft - excavation consisting of a vertical or sloping passageway for finding or mining ore or for ventilating a mine stone 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 water root cellar, cellar - an excavation where root vegetables are stored well - a deep hole or shaft dug or drilled to obtain water or oil or gas or brine | |
4. | excavation - the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth production - (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 dredging opencast mining, strip mining - the mining of ore or coal from an open mine bore-hole, drill hole, bore - a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes heading, drift, gallery - a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine; "they dug a drift parallel with the vein" rag - break into lumps before sorting; "rag ore" hush - run water over the ground to erode (soil), revealing the underlying strata and valuable minerals hush - wash by removing particles; "Wash ores" mine - get from the earth by excavation; "mine ores and metals" drive - excavate horizontally; "drive a tunnel" extract - separate (a metal) from an ore |
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excavation
noun hole, mine, pit, ditch, shaft, cutting, cut, hollow, trench, burrow, quarry, dig, trough, cavity, dugout, diggings excavations in the earth
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Translations
حَفْر، تَنْقيب
udgravning
ásatásfeltáráskiásás
gröftur
bouwput
hĺbenie
izkopavanje
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excavation
n
(of tunnel etc) → Graben nt
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excavate
(ˈekskəveit) verb1. to dig up (a piece of ground etc) or to dig out (a hole) by doing this.
2. in archaeology, to uncover or open up (a structure etc remaining from earlier times) by digging. The archaeologist excavated an ancient fortress.
ˌexcaˈvation nounˈexcavator noun
a machine or person that excavates.
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