excavating
present participle ofexcavate
| 单词 | excavating |
| 释义 | excavating present participle ofexcavate excavate verb[IorT] uk/ˈek.skə.veɪt/us/ˈek.skə.veɪt/toremoveearththat iscoveringveryoldobjectsburiedin thegroundinordertodiscoverthings about the past: Iceagebonesare being excavated in thecaves. todigaholeorchannelin theground,especiallywith amachine: Intinminingtoday,workersexcavatetunnelshorizontally from averticalshaft. Archaeology
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Digging Engineering - mining & quarrying Examplesofexcavatingexcavating In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Excavatingwas elevated into an art, with the indeed convenient 'quadrant method' as the most prominent example. From theCambridge English Corpus The number of tunnels was determined as the number of points where termites wereexcavating. From theCambridge English Corpus When viewed from the pulmonary aspect, the opening was ovalshaped, with its lower marginexcavatinginto the pulmonary sinus. From theCambridge English Corpus Excavatingbelow the level of the niche, they found more than 10 stratigraphic levels. From theCambridge English Corpus Excavatingeastward from the main skeleton, this team encountered the crocodile skeleton. From theCambridge English Corpus Buying clay from the merchants offers the advantage of saving time; traveling to the source, plusexcavatingand loading the clay, takes one full day. From theCambridge English Corpus Inevitably, the increasing market-orientation of archaeology will also lead to forms of commercialization in the business ofexcavating. From theCambridge English Corpus Perhaps the concern went deeper,excavatingan anxiety about acceptance in the modern world. From theCambridge English Corpus Whether constructing orexcavating, much hard physical work may be involved. From theCambridge English Corpus We may well find that thisexcavatingcapacity, as well as the financial means, will in the future prove to be inadequate to investigate all sites of archaeological interest. From theCambridge English Corpus Observers past and present expressed wonderment at all-night floodlights enabling 200 men and 30 teams of horses to work non-stop razing existing structures while simultaneouslyexcavatingfor foundations. From theCambridge English Corpus During the time we wereexcavatingcolonies, there were no mating flights of this species to our knowledge; thus we can reliably compare the number of males among the colonies. From theCambridge English Corpus Excavatingin the area at the base of the tree in 1992, we removed the contents of a pit that measured 185 cm north-south by 105 cm east-west. From theCambridge English Corpus Whilstexcavatingthe cairns, banks and roundhouses, many of us found that context sheets and scale drawings were often inadequate means of describing the subtleties of construction we were encountering. From theCambridge English Corpus That is to say, up to what figure would he impose additionalexcavatingcosts in order to ensure restoration? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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