Dig

Tamil Dictionary definitions for Dig

Dig : தோண்டு

Dig : தோண்டு

Dig definition

Transitive verb.

  1. To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, open, or loosen, as if with a spade.
  2. To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.
  3. To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well.
  4. To thrust; to poke.
  5. A plodding and laborious student.

Intransitive verb.

  1. To work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve.
  2. To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
  3. To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.

Noun. A thrust; a punch; a poke; as, a dig in the side or the ribs. See Dig, Transitive verb., 4.