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Movements of the ploughman when digging A dog digging on a beach.. Digging, also referred to as excavation, is the process of using some implement such as claws, hands, manual tools or heavy equipment, to remove material from a solid surface, usually soil, sand or rock on the surface of Earth.
One of the first known instances of archaeological excavation took place in the sixth century BC when Nabonidus, the king of Babylon, excavated a temple floor that was thousands of years old. [8]
Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States. The Supreme Court normally DIGs a case through a per curiam decision, [a] usually without giving reasons, [2] but rather issuing a one-line decision: "The writ of certiorari is dismissed as improvidently granted."
DIG, a writ of certiorari that is dismissed as improvidently granted (DIGged), in the Procedures of the Supreme Court of the United States; Deputy inspector general of police (DIG Police), a high-ranking senior Indian, Pakistani or Sri Lankan Police Service officer
An excavator that is in a hole and, per the Law of Holes, has stopped digging.. The law of holes, or the first law of holes, is an adage which states: "If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging."
In this event the writ of certiorari is "dismissed as improvidently granted" (DIGged)—saying, in effect that the Court should not have accepted the case. As with the granting or denial of cert , this dismissal is usually issued without explanation, normally with a one-sentence per curiam decision if the Court already heard oral arguments.
A gas main being laid in a trench. A trench is a type of excavation or depression in the ground that is generally deeper than it is wide (as opposed to a swale or a bar ditch), and narrow compared with its length (as opposed to a simple hole or pit).
A dug well in a village in Faryab Province, Afghanistan The difference between a well and a cistern is in the source of the water: a cistern collects rainwater where a well draws from groundwater.