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synonym (synonym of dig)

  • (noun.location)
    archeological site, excavation
    the site of an archeological exploration (noun.location)
     
  • (noun.communication)
    barb, gibe, jibe, shaft, shot, slam
    an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect (noun.communication)
     
  • (noun.act)
    digging, excavation
    the act of digging (noun.act)
     
  • (noun.act)
    jab
    the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow (noun.act)
     
  • (verb.contact)
    cut into, delve, turn over
    turn up, loosen, or remove earth (verb.contact)
     
  • (verb.contact)
    dig out
    create by digging (verb.contact)
     
  • (verb.social)
    drudge, fag, grind, labor, labour, moil, toil, travail
    work hard (verb.social)
     
  • (verb.perception)
    dig out, dig up
    remove, harvest, or recover by digging (verb.perception)
     
  • (verb.contact)
    excavate, hollow
    remove the inner part or the core of (verb.contact)
     
  • (verb.contact)
    jab, poke, prod, stab
    poke or thrust abruptly (verb.contact)
     
  • (verb.cognition)
    apprehend, compass, comprehend, get the picture, grasp, grok, savvy
    get the meaning of something (verb.cognition)
     

also (also)

  • turn up, loosen, or remove earth (verb.contact)
    dig in, pitch in
    eat heartily (verb.consumption)
     
  • (verb.contact)
    dig out
    dig out from underneath earth or snow (verb.contact)
     
  • (verb.contact)
    dig up, excavate, turn up
    find by digging in the ground (verb.contact)
     

hypernym (dig IS A KIND OF .... relation)

  • a small gouge (as in the cover of a book) (noun.attribute)
    dent, ding, gouge, nick
    an impression in a surface (as made by a blow) (noun.attribute)
     
  • an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect (noun.communication)
    comment, input, remark
    a statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief or adds information (noun.communication)
     
  • create by digging (verb.contact)
    core out, hollow, hollow out
    remove the interior of (verb.contact)
     
  • get the meaning of something (verb.cognition)
    understand
    know and comprehend the nature or meaning of (verb.cognition)
     
  • poke or thrust abruptly (verb.contact)
    thrust
    push forcefully (verb.motion)
     
  • remove, harvest, or recover by digging (verb.perception)
    excavate, unearth
    recover through digging (verb.perception)
     
  • the act of digging (noun.act)
    creating by removal
    the act of creating by removing something (noun.act)
     
  • the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow (noun.act)
    touch, touching
    the act of putting two things together with no space between them (noun.act)
     
  • the site of an archeological exploration (noun.location)
    land site, site
    the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located) (noun.location)
     
  • turn up, loosen, or remove earth (verb.contact)
    remove, take, take away, withdraw
    remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract (verb.change)
     
  • work hard (verb.social)
    do work, work
    be employed (verb.social)
     

hyponym (.... IS A KIND OF dig relation)

  • an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect (noun.communication)
    cheap shot
    an unnecessarily aggressive and unfair remark directed at a defenseless person (noun.communication)
     
  • create by digging (verb.contact)
    lift
    take (root crops) out of the ground (verb.contact)
     
  • (verb.contact)
    trench
    dig a trench or trenches (verb.contact)
     
  • (verb.contact)
    dibble
    make a hole with a wooden hand tool (verb.contact)
     
  • get the meaning of something (verb.cognition)
    figure
    understand (verb.cognition)
     
  • (verb.cognition)
    catch on, cotton on, get it, get onto, get wise, latch on, tumble, twig
    understand, usually after some initial difficulty (verb.cognition)
     
  • (verb.cognition)
    intuit
    know or grasp by intuition or feeling (verb.cognition)
     
  • (verb.cognition)
    digest
    arrange and integrate in the mind (verb.cognition)
     
  • remove the inner part or the core of (verb.contact)
    drive
    excavate horizontally (verb.contact)
     
  • (verb.contact)
    ditch, trench
    cut a trench in, as for drainage (verb.contact)
     
  • turn up, loosen, or remove earth (verb.contact)
    furrow, groove, rut
    hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove (verb.contact)
     
  • (verb.contact)
    root, rootle, rout
    dig with the snout (verb.contact)
     
  • (verb.contact)
    spade
    dig (up) with a spade (verb.contact)
     
  • (verb.contact)
    shovel
    dig with or as if with a shovel (verb.contact)
     
  • (verb.contact)
    trowel
    use a trowel on; for light garden work or plaster work (verb.contact)
     
  • (verb.motion)
    burrow, tunnel
    move through by or as by digging (verb.motion)
     

instance hyponym (.... IS A KIND OF dig relation (represent specific [usually real-world] instances of something))

  • the site of an archeological exploration (noun.location)
    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 pap more.. 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 (noun.location)
     

entail (entailment relations of dig)

  • create by digging (verb.contact)
    remove, take, take away, withdraw
    remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract (verb.change)
     

derivation (.... is derived from dig)

  • an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect (noun.communication)
    barrack, flout, gibe, jeer, scoff
    laugh at with contempt and derision (verb.communication)
     
  • create by digging (verb.contact)
    digger
    a laborer who digs (noun.person)
     
  • get the meaning of something (verb.cognition)
    apprehension, discernment, savvy, understanding
    the cognitive condition of someone who understands (noun.cognition)
     
  • (noun.cognition)
    comprehension
    an ability to understand the meaning or importance of something (or the knowledge acquired as a result) (noun.cognition)
     
  • (noun.cognition)
    appreciation, grasp, hold
    understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something (noun.cognition)
     
  • (noun.cognition)
    grasping
    understanding with difficulty (noun.cognition)
     
  • (noun.person)
    apprehender, knower
    a person who knows or apprehends (noun.person)
     
  • (adj.all)
    comprehendible, comprehensible
    capable of being comprehended or understood (adj.all)
     
  • (adj.all)
    apprehensible, graspable, intelligible, perceivable, understandable
    capable of being apprehended or understood (adj.all)
     
  • (adj.all)
    apprehensive, discerning
    quick to understand (adj.all)
     
  • poke or thrust abruptly (verb.contact)
    dig, jab
    the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow (noun.act)
     
  • (noun.act)
    jab, jabbing, poke, poking, thrust, thrusting
    a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow) (noun.act)
     
  • (noun.artifact)
    goad, prod
    a pointed instrument that is used to prod into a state of motion (noun.artifact)
     
  • remove the inner part or the core of (verb.contact)
    excavation, mining
    the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth (noun.act)
     
  • (noun.artifact)
    excavation
    a hole in the ground made by excavating (noun.artifact)
     
  • (noun.object)
    hole, hollow
    a depression hollowed out of solid matter (noun.object)
     
  • the act of digging (noun.act)
    cut into, delve, dig, turn over
    turn up, loosen, or remove earth (verb.contact)
     
  • (verb.contact)
    dig, excavate, hollow
    remove the inner part or the core of (verb.contact)
     
  • (verb.contact)
    dig, dig out
    create by digging (verb.contact)
     
  • (verb.contact)
    dig up, excavate, turn up
    find by digging in the ground (verb.contact)
     
  • (verb.perception)
    excavate, unearth
    recover through digging (verb.perception)
     
  • the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow (noun.act)
    dig, jab, poke, prod, stab
    poke or thrust abruptly (verb.contact)
     
  • turn up, loosen, or remove earth (verb.contact)
    dig, digging, excavation
    the act of digging (noun.act)
     
  • (noun.artifact)
    digger, excavator, power shovel, shovel
    a machine for excavating (noun.artifact)
     
  • (noun.location)
    archeological site, dig, excavation
    the site of an archeological exploration (noun.location)
     
  • work hard (verb.social)
    labor, labour, toil
    productive work (especially physical work done for wages) (noun.act)
     
  • (noun.act)
    donkeywork, drudgery, grind, plodding
    hard monotonous routine work (noun.act)
     
  • (noun.act)
    effort, elbow grease, exertion, sweat, travail
    use of physical or mental energy; hard work (noun.act)
     
  • (noun.act)
    labor, project, task, undertaking
    any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted (noun.act)
     
  • (noun.person)
    drudge, galley slave, navvy, peon
    a laborer who is obliged to do menial work (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    drudge, hack, hacker
    one who works hard at boring tasks (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    jack, laborer, labourer, manual laborer
    someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    dweeb, grind, nerd, swot, wonk
    an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    toiler
    one who works strenuously (noun.person)
     

domain category (dig is domain category of ....)

  • the site of an archeological exploration (noun.location)
    archaeology, archeology
    the branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures (noun.cognition)
     
synonym also hypernym hyponym instance hyponym entail derivation archeological site excavation barb gibe digging jab dig in pitch in dig out dig up excavate turn up touch touching creating by removal dent comment input cheap shot figure catch on cotton on intuit digest byblos remove take take away withdraw jab cut into delve excavate hollow dig out
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