English noun: excavation |
1. | excavation (act) the act of digging |
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| Samples | There's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton.
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| Synonyms | dig, digging |
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| Broader (hypernym) | creating by removal |
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2. | excavation (location) the site of an archeological exploration |
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| Samples | They set up camp next to the dig.
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| Synonyms | archeological site, dig |
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| Broader (hypernym) | land site, site |
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| Instance hyponym | Byblos |
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| Domain category | archaeology, archeology |
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3. | excavation (artifact) a hole in the ground made by excavating |
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| Broader (hypernym) | artefact, artifact |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | bore, bore-hole, cellar, delf, diggings, digs, ditch, drill hole, mine, mineshaft, pit, pool, quarry, root cellar, stone pit, well, working, workings |
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4. | excavation (act) the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth |
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| Synonyms | mining |
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| Broader (hypernym) | production |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | opencast mining, placer mining, strip mining |
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| Domain category members | bore, bore-hole, drift, drill hole, drive, extract, fathom, fthm, gallery, heading, hush, hush, mine, opencast, opencut, rag, strip mine, surface mine, surface-mine |
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