digger

«digger» in Mova's school dictionary: a large machine with a big metal bucket on an arm, used… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a digger, diggers)

meaning for a pupil

1) A digger is a large machine with a big metal bucket on an arm, used for digging holes and moving earth. tree →

2) A digger is also a person or animal that digs. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life diggers work on building sites and roads; young children love toy diggers. In nature lessons moles, rabbits and wombats are good diggers. In Australia and New Zealand «digger» is also a friendly word for a soldier. Safety: stay away from moving diggers on building sites. Phrases: a toy digger, a mechanical digger, a gold digger.

examples

• The digger scooped up a big pile of earth. tree →
• My little brother plays with his toy digger in the sandpit. tree →
• Moles are excellent diggers. tree →
• We watched the digger dig a hole for the new pool. tree →
• The digger driver waved to us. tree →
• Keep away from the digger while it is working. tree →
• Wombats are strong diggers. tree →

note

Countable: a digger, diggers (double g). From «dig» + «-er». In the USA a big digger is often called an excavator or backhoe.

In the corpora

• Diggers swing round and their drivers cannot see behind them; never go onto a building site, and keep behind the fences.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «digger» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.