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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun excavation has 4 senses
- excavation(n = noun.act) dig, digging - the act of digging; "there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton" is a kind of creating by removal
- excavation(n = noun.location) archeological site, dig - the site of an archeological exploration; "they set up camp next to the dig" is a kind of land site, site
- excavation(n = noun.artifact) - a hole in the ground made by excavating; is a kind of artefact, artifact
- excavation(n = noun.act) mining - the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth; is a kind of production
Derived forms verb excavate2, verb excavate1
has particulars: byblos
Derived forms verb excavate2, verb excavate1
has particulars: bore, bore-hole, drill hole, delf, diggings, digs, ditch, mine, mineshaft, pit, quarry, stone pit, pool, cellar, root cellar, well, working, workings
Derived forms verb excavate4, verb excavate3, verb excavate2, verb excavate1
has particulars: placer mining, opencast mining, strip mining
Derived form verb excavate4
CIDE DICTIONARY
excavation, n. [L. excavatio: cf. F. excavation.].
- The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass. [1913 Webster]
- A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping. Glover. [1913 Webster]
- An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a
covered cutting ortunnel . [1913 Webster]"The delivery of the excavations at a distance of 250 feet." [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
excavation
abysm, abyss, arroyo, avulsion, box canyon, breach, break, bringing to light, burrow, canyon, casual discovery, catching, cavity, chance discovery, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, coulee, couloir, crack, cranny, crater, crevasse, crevice, cut, cutting out, cwm, deepening, defile, dell, depression, deracination, detection, determination, determining, dig, digging, diggings, dike, disclosure, discovery, disentanglement, distinguishment, ditch, donga, draw, drawing, drawing out, dredging, drilling, engraving, enucleation, eradication, espial, evolvement, evulsion, excision, exhumation, exposure, expression, exsection, extirpation, extraction, extrication, fault, find, finding, finding out, fissure, flaw, flume, fracture, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gorge, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, hole, hollow, incision, indentation, invention, joint, kloof, leak, locating, location, lowering, lucky strike, mine, mining, moat, notch, nullah, opening, pass, passage, pit, pressing out, probing, pulling, quarry, quarrying, ravine, recognition, rediscovery, removal, rent, revelation, rift, rime, ripping out, rupture, scissure, seam, serendipity, shaft, sinkage, sinking, slit, slot, split, spotting, squeezing out, strike, treasure trove, trench, trough, trouvaille, trove, tunnel, tunneling, uncovering, unearthing, unrooting, uprooting, valley, void, wadi, well, withdrawal, workings, wresting outROGET THESAURUS
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Concavity
N concavity, depression, dip, hollow, hollowness, indentation, intaglio, cavity, dent, dint, dimple, follicle, pit, sinus, alveolus, lacuna, excavation, strip mine, trough, honeycomb, cup, basin, crater, punch bowl, cell, socket, valley, vale, dale, dell, dingle, combe, bottom, slade, strath, glade, grove, glen, cave, cavern, cove, grot, grotto, alcove, cul-de- sac, gully, arch, bay, excavator, sapper, miner, honeycomb (sponge), depressed, alveolate, calathiform, cup-shaped, dishing, favaginous, faveolate, favose, scyphiform, scyphose, concave, hollow, stove in, retiring, retreating, cavernous, porous, infundibul, infundibular, infundibuliform, funnel shaped, bell shaped, campaniform, capsular, vaulted, arched.
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