excavation
Other forms: excavations
Excavation is the act or process of digging, especially when something specific is being removed from the ground. Archaeologists use excavation to find artifacts and fossils.
There are many types of excavation, but they all involve digging holes in the earth. Mining for coal, gold, or diamonds all require excavation, and before buildings and houses can be built, there is often some excavation that's done before a foundation can be poured. The Latin source of excavation is excavationem, "a hollowing out," from excavare, "to hollow out," with its roots of ex-, "out," and cavare, "to hollow."
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the act of digging“there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton”type of:creating by removalthe act of creating by removing something
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a hole in the ground made by excavatingtypes:bore, bore-hole, drill holea hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposesdelfan excavation; usually a quarry or mineditcha long narrow excavation in the earthmineexcavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extractedmineshaftexcavation consisting of a vertical or sloping passageway for finding or mining ore or for ventilating a minepoolan excavation that is (usually) filled with waterwella deep hole or shaft dug or drilled to obtain water or oil or gas or brineartesian wella well drilled through impermeable strata into strata that receive water from a higher altitude so there is pressure to force the water to flow upwardcisternan artificial reservoir for storing liquids; especially an underground tank for storing rainwatercopper minea mine where copper is dug from the grounddrainage ditcha ditch for carrying off excess water or sewagegas wella well that yields or has yielded natural gasgravel pita quarry for gravelirrigation ditcha ditch to supply dry land with water artificiallysalt minea mine where salt is dugshot holedrill hole for a charge of an explosivesilver minea mine where silver ore is dugstrip minean open mine (usually for coal) where the seams run close to the surfacesumpa well or other hole in which water has collectedha-ha, haw-haw, sunk fencea ditch with one side being a retaining wall; used to divide lands without defacing the landscapetrencha ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earthtrenchany long ditch cut in the groundwading poola shallow pool for childrenwater jumpa pool or stream in a steeplechase or similar contest
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the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earthsynonyms: miningtypes:placer miningmining valuable minerals from a placer by washing or dredgingtype of:production(economics) manufacturing or mining or growing something (usually in large quantities) for sale
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the site of an archeological explorationsynonyms: archeological site, digexamples:Byblosan ancient Mediterranean seaport that was a thriving city state in Phoenicia during the second millennium BC; was the chief port for the export of papyrus; located in Lebanon to the north of Beirut; now partially excavated
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