Dig vs. Delve — What's the Difference?

To break up, turn over, or remove (earth or sand, for example), as with a shovel, spade, or snout, or with claws, paws or hands.

To search deeply and laboriously

To make or form by removing earth or other material

To research or make inquiries into something

To prepare (soil) by loosening or cultivating.

To undertake an activity or occupation undeterred by difficulty or uncertainty

To obtain or unearth by digging

To discuss or explain something, especially in detail

To obtain or find by an action similar to digging

To enter or move into an area in which movement is difficult

To learn or discover by careful research or investigation

To dig the ground, as with a spade.

To force down and into something; thrust

(Archaic) To dig (ground) with a spade.

To poke or prod

(intransitive) To dig into the ground, especially with a shovel.

(Sports) To strike or redirect (a ball) just before it hits the ground, keeping it in play, as in tennis or volleyball.

(ambitransitive) To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out

To understand fully

(ambitransitive) To dig; to excavate.

To like, enjoy, or appreciate

A pit or den.

To take notice of

To dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade.

To loosen, turn over, or remove earth or other material.

To dig into; to penetrate; to trace out; to fathom.

To make one's way by or as if by pushing aside or removing material

To dig or labor with a spade, or as with a spade; to labor as a drudge.

(Slang) To have understanding

A place dug; a pit; a ditch; a den; a cave.

A poke or thrust

Turn up, loosen, or remove earth;

A sarcastic, taunting remark; a gibe.

An archaeological excavation.

(Sports) An act or an instance of digging a ball.

Digs Lodgings.

To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.should this be split into senses?

(transitive) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.

(mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.

To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.

(figurative) To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.

To understand, to like.

To thrust; to poke.

(volleyball) To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball

To understand.

To appreciate, or like.

An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place.

A thrust; a poke.

(volleyball) A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.

(cricket) An innings.

A cutting, sarcastic remark.

The occupation of digging for gold.

A plodding and laborious student.

A tool for digging.

A rare or interesting vinyl record bought second-hand.

Digoxin.

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.

To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.

To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well.

To thrust; to poke.

To like; enjoy; admire.

To work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve.

To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.

To work hard or drudge;

Of a tool: To cut deeply into the work because ill set, held at a wrong angle, or the like, as when a lathe tool is set too low and so sprung into the work.

To understand; as, do you dig me?.

To notice; to look at; as, dig that crazy hat!.

To appreciate and enjoy; as, he digs classical music as well as rock.

A plodding and laborious student.

A tool for digging.

An act of digging.

An amount to be dug.

Same as Gouge.

A critical and sometimes sarcastic or insulting remark, but often good-humored; as, celebrities at a roast must suffer through countless digs.

An archeological excavation site.

The site of an archeological exploration;

An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect;

A small gouge (as in the cover of a book);

The act of digging;

The act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow;

Turn up, loosen, or remove earth;

Create by digging;

Work hard;

Remove the inner part or the core of;

Poke or thrust abruptly;

Get the meaning of something;