Burrow - English meaning

verb

Make (a hole) in something with a tool or by digging.

Usage examples:

Bore a hole in the wall to pass the cable through

noun

The hollow part inside a gun barrel or other tube.

Usage examples:

Barrels have ventilated ribs, hard-chromed bores, interchangeable choke tubes (three provided) and …

verb

Cause (someone) to feel weary and uninterested by dull talk or behaviour.

Usage examples:

She is too polite to bore us with anecdotes

noun

A natural underground chamber in a hillside or cliff.

Usage examples:

The narrow gorge contains a series of prehistoric caves

verb

Explore caves as a sport.

Usage examples:

They say they cave for the adventure, challenge, and physical exercise

exclamation

(among children) look out!

noun

A length of water wider than a strait, joining two larger areas of water, especially two seas.

Usage examples:

The bay includes saltmarsh, shallow and open water, tidal channels, mudflats and numerous islands, …

verb

Direct towards a particular end or object.

Usage examples:

The council is to channel public funds into training schemes

noun

A passage for water or other liquids to flow along, or a part of a river or other area of water that is deep and wide enough to provide a route for ships to travel along

Usage examples:

The english channel, she switched to another channel to watch the news., we’ve established a regula…

phrasal verb

Form and create by cutting out

noun

A piece of card cut into a particular shape, especially the shape of a person with a large photograph of that person on it

Usage examples:

He had his picture taken with a lifesize cardboard cutout of the president., his characters are car…

verb

Reach inside a receptacle and search for something.

Usage examples:

She delved in her pocket

verb

To search, especially as if by digging, in order to find a thing or information

Usage examples:

She delved into her pocket to find some change.

verb

To reach into something or under the surface of something trying find an object

Usage examples:

Delve into she delved into her pocket to find some change., delve for i grabbed my bag and delved f…

noun

A wild mammal's hidden home; a lair.

Usage examples:

A female mink had set up her den there

verb

(of a wild animal) live in a den.

Usage examples:

The cubs denned in the late autumn

noun

The home of particular types of wild animal

noun

A tool or machine with a rotating cutting tip or reciprocating hammer or chisel, used for making holes.

Usage examples:

Most of the project requires basic wood-working tools - a circular saw, a saber saw, an electric dr…

verb

Produce (a hole) in something by or as if by boring with a drill.

Usage examples:

Drill holes through the tiles for the masonry pins

verb

Sow (seed) with a drill.

Usage examples:

Crops drilled in autumn

noun

A trench that is dug and roofed over as a shelter for troops.

Usage examples:

The german gun crews kept in their dugouts

noun

A shelter where baseball players sit when they are not on the field

noun

A shelter, usually for soldiers, made by digging a hole in the ground and covering it

Usage examples:

The dugouts were soon filled with mud that came up to the soldiers' ankles.

noun

The planet on which we live; the world.

Usage examples:

The diversity of life on earth

verb

Connect (an electrical device) with the ground.

Usage examples:

The front metal panels must be soundly earthed

noun

The planet third in order of distance from the sun, between venus and mars; the world on which we live

Usage examples:

The earth takes approximately 3651/4 days to go round the sun., on earth the circus has been descri…

verb

Make (a hole or channel) by digging.

Usage examples:

The cheapest way of doing this was to excavate a long trench

verb

To dig a hole or channel in the ground, or to make a hole or channel by removing earth

Usage examples:

[ i ] we’ll be excavating here for the foundation of the building., [ t ] archaeologists are excava…

verb

To remove earth that is covering very old objects buried in the ground in order to discover things about the past

Usage examples:

Ice age bones are being excavated in the caves.

noun

The action of excavating something, especially an archaeological site.

Usage examples:

The methods of excavation have to be extremely rigorous

noun

The act of removing earth that is covering very old objects buried in the ground in order to discover things about the past

Usage examples:

Excavation of three skulls and one full skeleton were discovered during the excavation of an egypti…

noun

The act of digging a hole or channel in the ground, especially with a machine

Usage examples:

The site has been undergoing demolition and excavation since august., excavation work construction …

noun

The larva of an insect, especially a beetle.

Usage examples:

My onions are ruined by small grubs eating the roots

verb

Dig or poke about in soil.

Usage examples:

The damage done to pastures by badgers grubbing for worms

noun

Food

Usage examples:

The food was just good, greasy grub., can i grub a sandwich from you?

noun

A hollow place in a solid body or surface.

Usage examples:

The dog had dug a hole in the ground

verb

Make a hole or holes in.

Usage examples:

A fuel tank was holed by the attack and a fire started

adjective

Having a hole or empty space inside.

Usage examples:

A hollow metal tube

noun

A hole or depression in something.

Usage examples:

A hollow at the base of a large tree

verb

Form by making a hole.

Usage examples:

A tunnel was hollowed out in a mountain range

noun

A place where a wild animal, especially a fierce or dangerous one, lives.

Usage examples:

He saw that his dogs had roused a wild boar from its lair

verb

Dress or behave in a flashy manner.

Usage examples:

Some of us laired up in assam silk suits

noun

A place where certain kinds of wild animals live, often underground and hidden, or a place where a person hides

Usage examples:

A fox’s lair, a thieves’ lair

noun

An excavation in the earth for extracting coal or other minerals.

Usage examples:

A copper mine

verb

Obtain (coal or other minerals) from a mine.

Usage examples:

The company came to the area to mine phosphate

possessive pronoun

Used to refer to a thing or things belonging to or associated with the speaker.

Usage examples:

You go your way and i'll go mine

verb

(of an army) withdraw from enemy forces as a result of their superior power or after a defeat.

Usage examples:

The french retreated in disarray

noun

An act of moving back or withdrawing.

Usage examples:

A speedy retreat

verb

The act of withdrawing or going backward

verb

Drag or pull a hard or sharp implement across (a surface or object) so as to remove dirt or other matter.

Usage examples:

Remove the green tops from the carrots and scrape them

noun

An act or sound of scraping.

Usage examples:

He heard the scrape of his mother's key in the lock

verb

Cut the surface of; wear away the surface of

verb

Put, lay, or stand (something) in a specified place or position.

Usage examples:

Delaney set the mug of tea down

noun

A group or collection of things that belong together or resemble one another or are usually found together.

Usage examples:

A set of false teeth

verb

Variant spelling of sett.

noun

An artificial underground passage, especially one built through a hill or under a building, road, or river.

Usage examples:

A road tunnel through the pyrenees

verb

Short for wind tunnel.

noun

A network of interconnecting rabbit burrows.

Usage examples:

Its interest is that within it survive all the elements of a medieval forest: great timber trees, c…

proper noun

An industrial city in south-eastern michigan, north of detroit; population 133,939 (est. 2008).

proper noun

An industrial city in north-eastern ohio, on the river mahoning; population 43,789 (est. 2008).