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# excavator

noun (an excavator, excavators); verb excavate

«excavator» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. An excavator is a big machine with an arm and a bucket for digging up earth and rocks. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excavator/#m1)
2. An excavator is also a person who digs carefully at a site to find old objects, like an archaeologist. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excavator/#m2)

### In the lessons

Everyday life (building sites, roadworks), children's books about diggers, and history lessons about archaeology. Safety: stay away from working machines. Phrases: hydraulic excavator, mini excavator.

### Examples

- The excavator dug a deep hole for the new pool. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excavator/#x1)
- My little brother loves watching excavators. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excavator/#x2)
- The excavator's bucket scooped up the soil. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excavator/#x3)
- Archaeologists worked as careful excavators at the Roman site. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excavator/#x4)
- Stay far away from a working excavator. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excavator/#x5)
- A mini excavator fitted through the garden gate. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excavator/#x6)

### Note

Countable. Everyday name: digger (UK, Australia) or backhoe (a type, US). Say «EX-ka-vay-ter».

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «excavator» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excavator/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«excavator» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/excavator.html) on Mova free.