Digging

Definition

dig /dÇg/ v ( -gg- ; pt, pp dug /dʌg/) ၁။ (က) တူးသည္။ ဆြသည္။ I spent the morning digging. ❍ They are digging through the hill to make a tunnel. ❍ dig down into the soil ❍ It is difficult to dig the ground when it is frozen. ❍ dig the soil away (from the roots) ❍ dig the manure into the soil. (ခ) တြင္းစသည္ တူးသည္။ dig a pit/tunnel/shaft. (ဂ) ~ for sth တူးေဖာ္ရွာေဖြသည္။ dig for mineral deposits. ၂။ ( dated infml ) ခံစားသည္။ ႏွစ္သက္သည္။ တန္ဖိုးထားသည္။ နားလည္သည္။ I don't dig modern jazz. n ၁။ (က) လက္ႏွင့္တို႔ျခင္း၊ ထိုးျခင္း။ (တံေတာင္ႏွင့္) တြက္ျခင္း။ give sb a dig in the ribs. (ခ) ~(at sb) ေထ့လံုး။ ေငါ့လံုး။ She's always making mean little digs at him. ၂။ (က) တူးေဖာ္ျခင္း။ (ခ) ေရွးေဟာင္းသုေတသနဆိုင္ရာ တူးေဖာ္ျခင္း။ go on (ie take part in) a dig. ❏ dig one's heels/toes in [ IDM ] ေခါင္းမာသည္။ ❏ dig in; dig into sth [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ၁။ အားပါးတရ စားသည္။ ေလြးသည္။ The food's ready, so dig in! ၂။ ထိုးသည္။ (ေျခဖေနာင့္) ဖိစိုက္သည္။ The stiff collar dug into my neck. ❏ dig sth in; dig sth into sth [ PHRV ] ၁။ တူးဆြ၍ ေရာေႏွာသည္။ The manure should be well dug in. ၂။ ထိုးစိုက္သည္။ စိုက္ဝင္ေစသည္။ She dug a spoon into the vegetables and put a large helping on her plate. ❍ The rider dug his spurs into the horse's flank. ❍ The dog dug its teeth in. ❏ dig oneself in [ PHRV ] ၁။ ( military ) (ကတုတ္၊ ပစ္က်င္း စသည္) တူးသည္။ ၂။ ( infml ) (အလုပ္တစ္ခုခု၊ တစ္ေနရာရာတြင္) အတည္တက် အေျခခ်သည္။ ❏ dig sb in the ribs [ IDM ] နံေဘးကို တံေတာင္ႏွင့္တြက္၍ အခ်က္ေပးသည္။ ❏ dig (deep) in/into one's pocket(s) [ IDM ] ေငြကုန္ ေၾကးက်ခံသည္။ ❏ dig sb/sth out (of sth) [ PHRV ] ၁။ တူးေဖာ္သည္။ တူးထုတ္သည္။ They dug the potatoes out (of the ground). ❍ He was buried by an avalanche and had to be dug out. ၂။ ရွာေဖြေလ့လာသည္။ dig information out of books and reports ❍ dig out the truth. ၃။ ( infml ) ရွာေဖြေတြ႕ရိွသည္။ I dug out this old photo (from my desk). ❏ dig sth over [ PHRV ] ေျမကို တူးဆြ၍ ျပဳျပင္သည္။ dig the garden over. ❏ dig one's own grave [ IDM ] ကိုယ့္ေသတြင္းကိုယ္တူး သည္။ ❏ dig sth up [ PHRV ] ၁။ (ေျမကို) တူးဆြသည္။ dig up land for a new garden. ၂။ တူးေဖာ္သည္။ တူးထုတ္သည္။ တူးရာတြင္ေပၚလာသည္။ We dug up the tree by its roots. ❍ An old Roman coin was dug up here last month. ၃။ ေဖာ္ထုတ္သည္။ Newspapers love to dig up scandal.

Examples

1. The children like to dig in the sand.
2. We dug a hole and planted the tree.
3. [dig for something] : The boys were digging for worms.
4. [freshly/newly dug] : A freshly dug grave
5. The press have already started to dig.
6. I really dig their music.