excavation
31excavation — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. cavity, hole, pit, mine, shaft, quarry, opening. See concavity. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The act of excavating] Syn. digging, unearthing, disinterring, mining, quarrying, exhuming, scooping out, digging …
32excavation — ex|ca|va|tion [ ,ekskə veıʃn ] noun count or uncount the process of digging in the ground to find things from the past: archaeological excavations a. uncount TECHNICAL the process of digging a large hole in the ground …
33excavation — n. 1. Excavating. See the verb. 2. Cutting, cavity, hollow, cut …
34excavation — n hole, hollow, cavity, pit, crater; quarry, mine, cellar, foundation; earthwork, Inf. dig; burrow, cavern, dugout; ditch, trench, trough, cut, groove, sap, furrow; opening, cutting, shaft, stope; depression, indentation, dent, dint …
35excavation — ex·ca·va·tion …
36excavation — ex•ca•va•tion [[t]ˌɛks kəˈveɪ ʃən[/t]] n. 1) civ a hole made by excavating 2) civ the act of excavating 3) ara an area in which excavating has been done or is in progress, as an archaeological site • Etymology: 1605–15; < L …
37excavation — /ɛkskəˈveɪʃən/ (say ekskuh vayshuhn) noun 1. the act of excavating. 2. a hole or cavity made by excavating. 3. the site of archaeological investigation by digging …
38excavation — nf. => Creux, Grotte, Trou …
39excavation site — place where digging occurs (usually for anthropological or rescue purposes) …
40Mucking excavation — Mucking Location …