- the act of digging; "there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton"
- dig: the site of an archeological exploration; "they set up camp next to the dig"
- a hole in the ground made by excavating
- mining: the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth
- (excavate) recover through digging; "Schliemann excavated Troy"; "excavate gold"
- (excavate) remove the inner part or the core of; "the mining company wants to excavate the hillside"
- The term archaeological excavation has a double meaning.
- In medicine, excavation has two meanings: *the act of hollowing out *the space hollowed out, or a natural cavity or pouch
- (Excavate) The excavates are a major kingdom of unicellular eukaryotes, often known as Excavata. The phylogenetic category Excavata contains a variety of free-living and symbiotic forms, and also includes some important parasites of humans.
- the act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass; a cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping; an uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel; the material dug out in making a channel or cavity; ...
- (excavate) To make a hole in (something); to hollow; To remove part of (something) by scooping or digging it out; To uncover (something) by removing its covering
- (Excavations) Action to look for and/or to dig soil in the goal to discover a few something, treasure, archaeological pieces. To Rennes-Le-Château the excavations are to forbid of then 1965 by a municipal decree of July 23, 1965.
- (Excavations) In 1585, Abadai Khan of the Khalkha built the Tibetan Buddhist Erdene Zuu monastery near the site. Builders used debris from the city build the monastery.
- (excavate) To dig the basement and/or all areas that will need footings/foundations below ground.
- (Excavate) to expose or uncover by digging.
- (Excavate) The process of digging out or around something.
- (Excavate) abruptly concave, as in leaves with the basal area or basal corners (alar cells) hollowed out in comparison to the plane leaf margins and distal portions of the leaf; sometimes used to describe Brachythecium leaves with two and only two ?plications?.
- (Excavate) means to dig out and remove or to form a cavity or hole. (Webster)
- (excavate) Member of a kingdom of eukaryotes. All are single-celled species and none are known to have mitochondria.
- (excavate) of a perithecial axis, deeply concave.
- (excavate) to carefully dig up buried objects to find information about the past.
- (Excavating) Removal of earth at a construction site to create a hole or cavity.
- The process of clearing trees, removing topsoil and grading land before the foundation is laid.
- Removal of soil during rough grading.
- any man-made cut, cavity, trench, or depression in an earth surface, formed by earth removal.