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delve verb BrE /delv/ ; NAmE /delv/ - [intransitive] + adv./prep. to search for something inside a bag, container, etc.
synonym dig (3)
She delved in her handbag for a pen.
2. уст. to excavate
When Adam dalf and Eve span, who was then a gentleman?
1) делать изыскания, изучать, тщательно исследовать; рыться, копаться (в книгах, документах)
2) уст. копать, рыть
3) разг. работать как раб; надрываться; выполнять тяжёлую работу
delve into something - to try hard to find out more information about something
She had started to delve into her father's distant past.
We must delve back into history to find the reason.
dig verb BrE /dɪɡ/ ; NAmE /dɪɡ/
1. [intransitive, transitive] to make a hole in the ground or to move soil from one place to another using your hands, a tool or a machine
dig (for something) to dig for coal/gold/Roman remains
They dug deeper and deeper but still found nothing.
I think I'll do some digging in the garden.
dig something to dig a ditch/grave/hole/tunnel
(British English) I've been digging the garden.
2. [transitive] dig something to remove something from the ground with a tool
I'll dig some potatoes for lunch.
3. [intransitive] (+ adv./prep.) to search in something in order to find an object in something
I dug around in my bag for a pen.
4. [transitive] dig something (old-fashioned, slang) to approve of or like something very much
dig
гл.; прош. вр., прич. прош. вр. dug
1) копать, рыть
2) = dig up вскопать, перекопать (почву)
3) = dig out; = dig up выкапывать, извлекать (из-под земли, снега)
4) (dig for) копать в поисках чего-л., искать
5) (dig in) перемешивать с почвой, закапывать в землю (удобрение)
6) = dig in ( dig into) вонзать, втыкать (шпоры, вилку)
7) ( dig into) вонзаться, врезаться, втыкаться
8) ( dig in(to)) совать; засовывать, всовывать
9) ( dig in(to)) запускать руку во (что-л.), рыться (в чём-л.)
10) ( dig into) разг. набрасываться на (что-л.), жадно начинать есть (что-л.)браться по-настоящему за (что-л.), приступать всерьёз к (чему-л.)собирать информацию, тщательно исследоватьупрочивать, укреплять своё положение в (чём-л.)
11) толкать, пихать
12) амер.; разг. обращать внимание, замечатьоценивать; понимать приходить в восторг, балдеть
13) амер.; разг. долбить, зубрить
14) археол. производить раскопки
We must dig deep into the English language's past to find the origins of "delve." The verb originated in 9th century Old English as "delfan" and is related to the Old High German word telban, meaning "dig." For some 400 years, there was only delving - no digging - because "dig" didn't exist until the 13th century. Is the phrase "dig and delve" (as in the line "eleven, twelve, dig and delve," from the nursery rhyme that begins "one, two, buckle my shoe") redundant? Not necessarily. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, in some local uses as recently as the late 19th century, "dig" was the term for working with a mattock (a tool similar to an adze or a pick), while "delve" was reserved for using a spade.
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dig transitive verb
1 a : to break up, turn, or loosen (as earth) with an implement b : to prepare the soil of <dig a garden>
2 a : to bring to the surface by digging : (=unearth) <dig potatoes> b : to bring to light or out of hiding <dig up facts>
3 to hollow out or form by removing earth : (=excavate) <dig a hole>
4 to drive down so as to penetrate : (=thrust)
5 =poke ( толкать, пихать), prod
6 slang
a : to pay attention to : (=notice) <dig that fancy hat>
b : understand <couldn't dig the medical jargon>
c : like, admire <high school students dig short poetry — David Burmester>
intransitive verb
1 to turn up, loosen, or remove earth
2 to work hard or laboriously
3 to advance by or as if by removing or pushing aside material
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