'Excavation' definitions:
Definition of 'excavation'
(from WordNet)
noun
The act of digging; "there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton" [syn: excavation, digging, dig]
noun
The site of an archeological exploration; "they set up camp next to the dig" [syn: dig, excavation, archeological site]
noun
A hole in the ground made by excavating
noun
The act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth [syn: mining, excavation]
Definition of 'Excavation'
From: GCIDE
- Excavation \Ex`ca*va"tion\, n. [L. excavatio: cf. F. excavation.]
- 1. The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping. "A winding excavation." --Glover. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Engin.) (a) An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel. (b) The material dug out in making a channel or cavity. [1913 Webster]
- The delivery of the excavations at a distance of
- 250 feet. --E. L. Corthell. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'excavation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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 out