excavation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin excavātiō (“a hollowing out”), from excavō (“to hollow out”), from ex + cavō (“to hollow out”), from cavus (“hollow”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁- (“vault, hole”). Equivalent to excavate + -ion.
Base: excavate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: excavations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: hollowing out, hollowing
gloss: The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Prof. Dainelli made a personal study of the lakes of the Upper Indus lying between its confluence with the Gilgit on the west and the plains of Kashmir on the east. From this district he cites fifty lakes and groups of lakes. Many of these are moraine-dammed, but some of the larger ones, as the Satpor Tso, the Tso Moriri, the Chiun Tso, and the group of lakes associated with the Pángong Tso, he considers to have originated by glacial excavation.
gloss: An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The material dug out in making a channel or cavity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: […] to cart away the excavations from the work, and to recart the same back again so far as required to fill the trench over the sewer […]
gloss: Archaeological research that unearths buildings, tombs and objects of historical value.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A site where an archaeological exploration is being carried out.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Gregory led the excavations alongside marine archaeologist Andreas Kallmeyer Bloch, who is also a curator at the National Museum.
“It’s been a long process and I’ve come close to giving up along the way, but this is undoubtedly the craziest archaeological excavation I’ve yet been part of,” Bloch said in the news release.
gloss: Something uncovered by archaeological excavation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: To date, [Taco's 1982 cover of Irving Berlin's 1935] "Cheek To Cheek" and similar auditory excavations have fared poorly.
gloss: The act of discovering and exposing or developing (a quality).
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: Chua looks at the landscape of childhood rather like a mining engineer looks at a pristine landscape—ripe for the excavation of talent.
This Andrade, a lawyer, seemed to enjoy bureucratic process as much as Mário de Andrade valorized the enthnographic excavation of creativity.
In the same vein, Emirbayer and Desmond (2012) highlight the vital need for deeper scholarly reflexivity as regards race, advocating excavation of hidden presuppositions at social, disciplinary and scholastic levels.
Derived words: excavational
excavationist
excavation unit
nonexcavation
reexcavation
re-excavation
sub-excavation
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: изкопа́ване
roman: izkopávane
lang: Catalan
word: excavació
lang: Dutch
word: afgraving
lang: Finnish
word: kaivaminen
lang: Finnish
word: kaivuu
lang: German
word: Grabung
lang: German
word: Ausgrabung
lang: Greek
word: εκσκαφή
roman: ekskafí
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἀνασκαφή
roman: anaskaphḗ
lang: Gujarati
word: ખોદકામ
roman: khodkām
lang: Ido
word: exkavo
lang: Ido
word: exkavado
lang: Italian
word: scavo
lang: Latin
word: excavatio
lang: Malay
word: penggalian
lang: Malay
word: pengorekan
lang: Malay
word: ekskavasi
lang: Polish
word: wykopalisko
lang: Portuguese
word: escavação
lang: Russian
word: копа́ние
roman: kopánije
lang: Russian
word: рытьё
roman: rytʹjó
lang: Russian
word: экскава́ция
roman: ekskavácija
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: cladhach
lang: Spanish
word: excavación
lang: Swedish
word: utgrävning
lang: Telugu
word: తవ్వకము
roman: tavvakamu
lang: Turkish
word: kazı
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: قازمه
roman: kazma