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ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms | Noun | 1. | excavation - the act of digging; "there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton" | | 2. | excavation - the site of an archeological exploration; "they set up camp next to the dig"land site, site - the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located); "a good site for the school" | | 3. | excavation - a hole in the ground made by excavatingdelf - an excavation; usually a quarry or mine diggings, digs - an excavation for ore or precious stones or for archaeology ditch - a long narrow excavation in the earth mine - excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted mineshaft - excavation consisting of a vertical or sloping passageway for finding or mining ore or for ventilating a mine stone pit, quarry, pit - a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate; "a British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'" pool - an excavation that is (usually) filled with water well - a deep hole or shaft dug or drilled to obtain water or oil or gas or brine | | 4. | excavation - the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earthproduction - (economics) manufacturing or mining or growing something (usually in large quantities) for sale; "he introduced more efficient methods of production" placer mining - mining valuable minerals from a placer by washing or dredging heading, drift, gallery - a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine; "they dug a drift parallel with the vein" fathom, fthm - (mining) a unit of volume (equal to 6 cubic feet) used in measuring bodies of ore rag - break into lumps before sorting; "rag ore" hush - run water over the ground to erode (soil), revealing the underlying strata and valuable minerals hush - wash by removing particles; "Wash ores" mine - get from the earth by excavation; "mine ores and metals" drive - excavate horizontally; "drive a tunnel" extract - separate (a metal) from an ore |
excavation noun hole, mine, pit, ditch, shaft, cutting, cut, hollow, trench, burrow, quarry, dig, trough, cavity, dugout, diggings
Translationsexcavation [ɛkskəˈveɪʃən] n → excavación f excavation [ɛkskəˈveɪʃən] excavate n → Ausgrabung f excavation [ɛkskəˈveɪʃən] n → escavazione f
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