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excavation

DEFINITIONS OF: excavation

n the act of digging

“there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton”

Synonyms:: dig, digging

Type of:: creating by removal
the act of creating by removing something

n a hole in the ground made by excavating

Types:: show 35 types...; hide 35 types...; bore, bore-hole, drill hole
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; pit, quarry, stone pit
a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate; pool
an excavation that is (usually) filled with water; cellar, root 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; artesian well
a well drilled through impermeable strata into strata that receive water from a higher altitude so there is pressure to force the water to flow upward; chalk pit, chalkpit
a quarry for chalk; cistern
an artificial reservoir for storing liquids; especially an underground tank for storing rainwater; coal mine, coalpit
a mine where coal is dug from the ground; copper mine
a mine where copper is dug from the ground; drainage ditch
a ditch for carrying off excess water or sewage; driven well, tube well
a well made by driving a tube into the earth to a stratum that bears water; gas well
a well that yields or has yielded natural gas; gold mine, goldmine
a mine where gold ore is found; gravel pit
a quarry for gravel; irrigation ditch
a ditch to supply dry land with water artificially; oil well, oiler
a well that yields or has yielded oil; salt mine
a mine where salt is dug; shot hole
drill hole for a charge of an explosive; silver mine
a mine where silver ore is dug; strip mine
an open mine (usually for coal) where the seams run close to the surface; sulfur mine, sulphur mine
a mine where sulphur is dug from the ground; sump
a well or other hole in which water has collected; ha-ha, haw-haw, sunk fence
a ditch with one side being a retaining wall; used to divide lands without defacing the landscape; natatorium, swimming bath, swimming pool
pool that provides a facility for swimming; trench
a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth; trench
any long ditch cut in the ground; wading pool
a shallow pool for children; water jump
a pool or stream in a steeplechase or similar contest

Type of:: artefact, artifact
a man-made object taken as a whole

n the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth

Synonyms:: mining

Types:: 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

Type of:: production
(economics) manufacturing or mining or growing something (usually in large quantities) for sale

n the site of an archeological exploration

Synonyms:: archeological site, dig

Examples:: Byblos
an 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

Type of:: land site, site
the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located)

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