Defn: Tendency to become diffused; tendency, as of heat, to become equalized by spreading through a conducting medium.
DIG Dig, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dug or Digged (; p. pr. & vb. n. Digging. — Digged is archaic.] Etym: [OE. diggen, perh. the same word as diken, dichen (see Dike, Ditch); cf. Dan. dige to dig, dige a ditch; or akin to E. 1st dag.
1. To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, open, or loosen, as if with a spade. Be first to dig the ground. Dryden.
2. To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.
3. To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well.
4. To thrust; to poke. [Colloq.] You should have seen children . . . dig and push their mothers under the sides, saying thus to them: Look, mother, how great a lubber doth yet wear pearls. Robynson (More's Utopia). To dig down, to undermine and cause to fall by digging; as, to dig down a wall. — To dig from, out of, out, or up, to get out or obtain by digging; as, to dig coal from or out of a mine; to dig out fossils; to dig up a tree. The preposition is often omitted; as, the men are digging coal, digging iron ore, digging potatoes. — To dig in, to cover by digging; as, to dig in manure.(b) To entrench oneself so as to give stronger resistance; — used of warfare. Also figuratively, esp. in the phrase to dig in one's heels.
DIG
Dig, v. i.
1. To work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work;
to delve.
Dig for it more than for hid treasures. Job iii. 21.
I can not dig; to beg I am ashamed. Luke xvi. 3.
2. (Mining)
Defn: To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.