excavation of a cut

  • 1Cut — may refer to: The act of cutting, the separation of an object into two through acutely directed force Contents 1 Mathematics 2 Computing 3 …

    Wikipedia

  • 2excavation — [n] site of digging; digging blasting, burrow, cavity, cut, cutting, dig, disinterring, ditch, dugout, exhuming, hole, hollow, mine, mining, pit, quarry, removal, scooping, shaft, shoveling, trench, trough, unearthing; concepts 178,509,513 Ant.… …

    New thesaurus

  • 3Excavation (archaeology) — The term archaeological excavation has a double meaning.# Excavation is the best known and most commonly used within the science of archaeology. In this sense it is the exposure, processing and recording of archaeological remains. # The term is… …

    Wikipedia

  • 4cut — I. verb (cut; cutting) Etymology: Middle English cutten Date: 13th century transitive verb 1. a. to penetrate with or as if with an edged instrument b. to hurt the feelings of c. to strike sharply with a cutting effect d …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 5Cut (earthmoving) — Road cutting …

    Wikipedia

  • 6cut — Synonyms and related words: AWOL, French leave, Parthian shot, Platonic form, Platonic idea, Spartan, Vandyke, abandon, abate, abatement, abbreviate, abbreviated, abrade, abrasion, abridge, abridged, abscind, abscondence, absence, absence without …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 7Cut and fill — A mass haul diagram where land and rock cuts are hauled to fills In earthmoving, cut and fill is the process of constructing a railway, road or canal whereby the amount of material from cuts roughly matches the amount of fill needed to make… …

    Wikipedia

  • 8excavation — Synonyms and related words: abysm, abyss, arroyo, avulsion, box canyon, breach, break, bringing to light, burrow, canyon, casual discovery, catching, cavity, chance discovery, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, coulee …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 9excavation — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. cavity, hole, pit, mine, shaft, quarry, opening. See concavity. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The act of excavating] Syn. digging, unearthing, disinterring, mining, quarrying, exhuming, scooping out, digging …

    English dictionary for students

  • 10excavation — n. 1. Excavating. See the verb. 2. Cutting, cavity, hollow, cut …

    New dictionary of synonyms