dig

Signification (Anglais)

1. To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.
2. To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
3. To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
4. (slang) To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
5. To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
6. To thrust; to poke.
7. To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball

creuser

piocher

creuser un fossé

faire des fouilles

fouilles

remuer la terre

s’occuper

crsuer

canal d’eau

fouir la terre

prendre conscience de

s’épuiser à la tâche

scoop out

cut into

archeological site

dig a ditch

make a hole

scratch off

bore a hole

give someone a dig

say something hurtful to someone

dig through

craterlet

scratch the ground

scratch with nails

bird’s beak

rain channel

winning and opening

mining work

especially a hole

cutting remark

gouge out

hand of bananas

paw the ground

poke into

Fréquence

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/dɪɡ/

From Middle English diggen (“to dig”), alteration of Old English dīcian (“to dig a ditch, to mound up earth”) (compare Old English dīcere (“digger”)) from dīc, dīċ (“dike, ditch”) from Proto-Germanic *dīkaz, *dīkiją (“pool, puddle”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- (“to stab, dig”). Additionally, Middle English diggen may derive from an unrecorded suffixed variant, *dīcgian. Akin to Danish dige (“to dig, raise a dike”), Swedish dika (“to dig ditches”). Related to Middle French diguer (“to dig”), from Old French dikier, itself a borrowing of the same Germanic root (from Middle Dutch dijc). More at ditch, dike.

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