The meaning of Excavation

adjective

Not interesting; tedious.

Usage examples:

I've got a boring job in an office

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

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

An empty space within a solid object.

Usage examples:

The abdominal cavity

noun

A hole in a surface or a hollow inside something

Usage examples:

The abdominal/chest cavity

verb

Direct towards a particular end or object.

Usage examples:

The council is to channel public funds into training schemes

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, …

noun

A band of frequencies used in radio and television transmission, especially as used by a particular station.

Usage examples:

Under this concept, multiple antennas simultaneously transmit different flows of data over one and …

abbreviation

Community of the resurrection.

abbreviation

Councillor.

noun

The chemical element of atomic number 24, a hard white metal used in stainless steel and other alloys.

verb

Break up and move earth with a tool or machine, or with hands, paws, snout, etc.

Usage examples:

The boar had been digging for roots

noun

An act or spell of digging.

Usage examples:

A thorough dig of the whole plot

noun

A push or poke with one's elbow, finger, etc.

Usage examples:

Ginnie gave her sister a dig in the ribs

noun

The action of digging up something buried, especially a corpse.

Usage examples:

The exhumation of bodies was ordered following protests by the villagers

noun

The act of removing a dead body from the ground after it has been buried

Usage examples:

The police ordered the exhumation of several bodies., flooding has forced exhumations on some pacif…

verb

Make (a groove, hole, or indentation) with or as with a sharp tool or blade.

Usage examples:

The channel had been gouged out by the ebbing water

noun

A chisel with a concave blade, used in carpentry, sculpture, and surgery.

Usage examples:

A chisel, two gouges, jewelers' shears, and the plane blade were made in sheffield.

noun

An indentation or groove made by gouging.

Usage examples:

The knife in my hands slipped when the wagon hit a rut, nicking a rogue gouge from the piece of woo…

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

The process or industry of obtaining coal or other minerals from a mine.

Usage examples:

Close linkages between mining and other sectors of the economy

verb

Obtain (coal or other minerals) from a mine.

Usage examples:

The company came to the area to mine phosphate

noun

The industry or activity of removing coal and other substances from the earth

noun

A large hole in the ground.

Usage examples:

I do not see any risk of these pits becoming breeding grounds for mosquitoes.

verb

Set someone or something in conflict or competition with.

Usage examples:

You'll get the chance to pit your wits against the world champions

verb

Remove the pit from (fruit).

Usage examples:

Leave some cherries whole so people can see later on how hard you worked pitting real cherries.

verb

Extract (stone or other materials) from a quarry.

Usage examples:

Limestone is quarried for use in blast furnaces

noun

A place, typically a large, deep pit, from which stone or other materials are or have been extracted.

Usage examples:

A limestone quarry

noun

An animal pursued by a hunter, hound, predatory mammal, or bird of prey.

Usage examples:

Grouse are not an easy quarry for a hawk

adjective

Making interesting or significant information known, especially of a personal nature.

Usage examples:

A revealing radio interview

verb

Make (previously unknown or secret information) known to others.

Usage examples:

Brenda was forced to reveal robbie's whereabouts

adjective

Showing more than is usual

Usage examples:

The dress code bans revealing clothing., the book provides a revealing glimpse of how the organizat…

verb

Go down below the surface of something, especially of a liquid; become submerged.

Usage examples:

He saw the coffin sink below the surface of the waves

noun

A fixed basin with a water supply and outflow pipe.

Usage examples:

I stood at the kitchen sink

noun

A pool or marsh in which a river's water disappears by evaporation or percolation.

Usage examples:

Once again, however, rumours of caves higher on the hillside and far off river sinks abound.

verb

Remove a cover or covering from.

Usage examples:

He uncovered the face of the dead man

verb

Present participle of uncover

Usage examples:

The investigation uncovered evidence of a large-scale illegal trade in wild birds., the biography i…

verb

Find (something) in the ground by digging.

Usage examples:

Workmen unearthed an ancient artillery shell