What is the meaning of digging?

noun

• The act of digging.
  • usage: "there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton"
  • synonyms: excavation, dig

verb

• Turn up, loosen, or remove earth.
  • usage: "Dig we must"; "turn over the soil for aeration"
  • synonyms: dig, delve, cut into, turn over
• Create by digging.
  • usage: "dig a hole"; "dig out a channel"
  • synonyms: dig, dig out
• Work hard.
  • usage: "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
  • synonyms: labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
• Remove, harvest, or recover by digging.
  • usage: "dig salt"; "dig coal"
  • synonyms: dig, dig up, dig out
• Thrust down or into.
  • usage: "dig the oars into the water"; "dig your foot into the floor"
  • synonyms: dig
• Remove the inner part or the core of.
  • usage: "the mining company wants to excavate the hillside"
  • synonyms: excavate, dig, hollow
• Poke or thrust abruptly.
  • usage: "he jabbed his finger into her ribs"
  • synonyms: jab, prod, stab, poke, dig
• Get the meaning of something.
  • usage: "Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter"
  • synonyms: grok, get the picture, comprehend, savvy, dig, grasp, compass, apprehend