| dig | | |
| n. (location) | 1. archeological site, dig, 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. |
| ~ land site, site | the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located).; "a good site for the school" |
| ~ 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. |
| n. (communication) | 2. barb, dig, gibe, jibe, shaft, shot, slam | an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.; "his parting shot was `drop dead'"; "she threw shafts of sarcasm"; "she takes a dig at me every chance she gets" |
| ~ comment, remark, input | a statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief or adds information.; "from time to time she contributed a personal comment on his account" |
| ~ cheap shot | an unnecessarily aggressive and unfair remark directed at a defenseless person. |
| n. (attribute) | 3. dig | a small gouge (as in the cover of a book).; "the book was in good condition except for a dig in the back cover" |
| ~ gouge, nick, ding, dent | an impression in a surface (as made by a blow). |
| n. (act) | 4. dig, digging, excavation | the act of digging.; "there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton" |
| ~ creating by removal | the act of creating by removing something. |
| n. (act) | 5. dig, jab | the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow.; "she gave me a sharp dig in the ribs" |
| ~ touching, touch | the act of putting two things together with no space between them.; "at his touch the room filled with lights" |
| v. (contact) | 6. cut into, delve, dig, turn over | turn up, loosen, or remove earth.; "Dig we must"; "turn over the soil for aeration" |
| ~ remove, take away, withdraw, take | remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract.; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment" |
| ~ furrow, groove, rut | hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove.; "furrow soil" |
| ~ rootle, rout, root | dig with the snout.; "the pig was rooting for truffles" |
| ~ spade | dig (up) with a spade.; "I spade compost into the flower beds" |
| ~ shovel | dig with or as if with a shovel.; "shovel sand"; "he shovelled in the backyard all afternoon long" |
| ~ trowel | use a trowel on; for light garden work or plaster work. |
| ~ burrow, tunnel | move through by or as by digging.; "burrow through the forest" |
| v. (contact) | 7. dig, dig out | create by digging.; "dig a hole"; "dig out a channel" |
| ~ remove, take away, withdraw, take | remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract.; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment" |
| ~ core out, hollow out, hollow | remove the interior of.; "hollow out a tree trunk" |
| ~ lift | take (root crops) out of the ground.; "lift potatoes" |
| ~ trench | dig a trench or trenches.; "The National Guardsmen were sent out to trench" |
| ~ dibble | make a hole with a wooden hand tool.; "dibble the ground" |
| v. (social) | 8. dig, drudge, fag, grind, labor, labour, moil, toil, travail | work hard.; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long" |
| ~ do work, work | be employed.; "Is your husband working again?"; "My wife never worked"; "Do you want to work after the age of 60?"; "She never did any work because she inherited a lot of money"; "She works as a waitress to put herself through college" |
| v. (perception) | 9. dig, dig out, dig up | remove, harvest, or recover by digging.; "dig salt"; "dig coal" |
| ~ excavate, unearth | recover through digging.; "Schliemann excavated Troy"; "excavate gold" |
| v. (motion) | 10. dig | thrust down or into.; "dig the oars into the water"; "dig your foot into the floor" |
| ~ thrust | push forcefully.; "He thrust his chin forward" |
| v. (contact) | 11. dig, excavate, hollow | remove the inner part or the core of.; "the mining company wants to excavate the hillside" |
| ~ remove, take away, withdraw, take | remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract.; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment" |
| ~ drive | excavate horizontally.; "drive a tunnel" |
| ~ trench, ditch | cut a trench in, as for drainage.; "ditch the land to drain it"; "trench the fields" |
| v. (contact) | 12. dig, jab, poke, prod, stab | poke or thrust abruptly.; "he jabbed his finger into her ribs" |
| ~ thrust | push forcefully.; "He thrust his chin forward" |
| v. (cognition) | 13. apprehend, compass, comprehend, dig, get the picture, grasp, grok, savvy | get the meaning of something.; "Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?" |
| ~ understand | know and comprehend the nature or meaning of.; "She did not understand her husband"; "I understand what she means" |
| ~ figure | understand.; "He didn't figure her" |
| ~ catch on, cotton on, get it, get onto, get wise, twig, latch on, tumble | understand, usually after some initial difficulty.; "She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on" |
| ~ intuit | know or grasp by intuition or feeling. |
| ~ digest | arrange and integrate in the mind.; "I cannot digest all this information" |
| scratch | | |
| n. (state) | 1. abrasion, excoriation, scrape, scratch | an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off. |
| ~ graze | a superficial abrasion. |
| ~ rope burn | abrasion (usually on the hands) caused by friction from a rope. |
| ~ wound, lesion | an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin). |
| n. (shape) | 2. dent, incision, prick, scratch, slit | a depression scratched or carved into a surface. |
| ~ imprint, impression, depression | a concavity in a surface produced by pressing.; "he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud" |
| ~ scotch, score | a slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally). |
| n. (possession) | 3. boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum | informal terms for money. |
| ~ money | the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender.; "we tried to collect the money he owed us" |
| n. (person) | 4. scratch | a competitor who has withdrawn from competition. |
| ~ challenger, competitor, contender, rival, competition | the contestant you hope to defeat.; "he had respect for his rivals"; "he wanted to know what the competition was doing" |
| n. (location) | 5. scratch, scratch line, start, starting line | a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game. |
| ~ line | in games or sports; a mark indicating positions or bounds of the playing area. |
| n. (food) | 6. chicken feed, scratch | dry mash for poultry. |
| ~ mash | mixture of ground animal feeds. |
| n. (event) | 7. scrape, scraping, scratch, scratching | a harsh noise made by scraping.; "the scrape of violin bows distracted her" |
| ~ noise | sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound).; "he enjoyed the street noises"; "they heard indistinct noises of people talking"; "during the firework display that ended the gala the noise reached 98 decibels" |
| n. (communication) | 8. cacography, scratch, scrawl, scribble | poor handwriting. |
| ~ handwriting, script, hand | something written by hand.; "she recognized his handwriting"; "his hand was illegible" |
| ~ chicken scratch | cramped or illegible handwriting. |
| ~ squiggle | an illegible scrawl.; "his signature was just a squiggle but only he could make that squiggle" |
| n. (attribute) | 9. scratch | (golf) a handicap of zero strokes.; "a golfer who plays at scratch should be able to achieve par on a course" |
| ~ golf, golf game | a game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes. |
| ~ handicap | advantage given to a competitor to equalize chances of winning. |
| n. (attribute) | 10. mark, scar, scrape, scratch | an indication of damage. |
| ~ blemish, mar, defect | a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body).; "a facial blemish" |
| v. (contact) | 11. chafe, fray, fret, rub, scratch | cause friction.; "my sweater scratches" |
| ~ adjoin, contact, touch, meet | be in direct physical contact with; make contact.; "The two buildings touch"; "Their hands touched"; "The wire must not contact the metal cover"; "The surfaces contact at this point" |
| v. (contact) | 12. scrape, scratch, scratch up | cut the surface of; wear away the surface of. |
| ~ claw | scratch, scrape, pull, or dig with claws or nails. |
| ~ scuff | mar by scuffing.; "scuffed shoes" |
| ~ incise | make an incision into by carving or cutting. |
| v. (perception) | 13. itch, rub, scratch | scrape or rub as if to relieve itching.; "Don't scratch your insect bites!" |
| ~ irritate | excite to an abnormal condition, or chafe or inflame.; "Aspirin irritates my stomach" |
| v. (social) | 14. call off, cancel, scratch, scrub | postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled.; "Call off the engagement"; "cancel the dinner party"; "we had to scrub our vacation plans"; "scratch that meeting--the chair is ill" |
| ~ schedule | make a schedule; plan the time and place for events.; "I scheduled an exam for this afternoon" |
| v. (contact) | 15. excise, expunge, scratch, strike | remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line.; "Please strike this remark from the record"; "scratch that remark" |
| ~ delete, cancel | remove or make invisible.; "Please delete my name from your list" |
| v. (contact) | 16. come up, scrape, scrape up, scratch | gather (money or other resources) together over time.; "She had scraped together enough money for college"; "they scratched a meager living" |
| ~ nickel-and-dime | accumulate gradually.; "she nickeled-and-dimed together a small house for her family" |
| ~ accumulate, collect, compile, amass, hoard, roll up, pile up | get or gather together.; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune" |
| v. (contact) | 17. engrave, grave, inscribe, scratch | carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface.; "engrave a pen"; "engraved the trophy cupt with the winner's"; "the lovers scratched their names into the bark of the tree" |
| ~ chip at, carve | engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface.; "carve one's name into the bark" |
| ~ engrave, etch | carve or cut a design or letters into.; "engrave the pen with the owner's name" |
| ~ character | engrave or inscribe characters on. |
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