excavation

ex·ca·va·tion  (ksk-vshn)

n.

1. The act or process of excavating.

2. A hole formed by excavating.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	excavation - the act of digging; "there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton" digging, dig creating by removal - the act of creating by removing something
	2.	excavation - the site of an archeological exploration; "they set up camp next to the dig" archeological site, dig archaeology, archeology - the branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures 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 excavating artefact, artifact - a man-made object taken as a whole bore-hole, drill hole, bore - a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes delf - 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 root cellar, cellar - an excavation where root vegetables are stored well - a deep hole or shaft dug or drilled to obtain water or oil or gas or brine working, workings - a mine or quarry that is being or has been worked
	4.	excavation - the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth mining production - (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 opencast mining, strip mining - the mining of ore or coal from an open mine bore-hole, drill hole, bore - a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes 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" strip mine, surface mine, surface-mine - extract (ore) from a strip-mine drive - excavate horizontally; "drive a tunnel" extract - separate (a metal) from an ore

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excavation

noun hole, mine, pit, ditch, shaft, cutting, cut, hollow, trench, burrow, quarry, dig, trough, cavity, dugout, diggings excavations in the earth

Translations

excavation [ˌekskəˈveɪʃən] N → excavación f

excavation [ˌɛkskəˈveɪʃ^ən] n

(by archeologist) → fouilles fpl

(by builder, machine) → creusement m

excavation

n

(Archeol) → (Aus)grabung f; excavations (= site) → Ausgrabungsstätte f

(of tunnel etc) → Graben nt

excavation [ˌɛkskəˈveɪʃ/ən] n → scavo (Archeol) → scavi mpl

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excavation [ˌɛkskəˈveɪʃ/ən] n → scavo (Archeol) → scavi mpl