English-Thai Dictionary

delve

VI ค้นหา ข้อมูล อย่างละเอียด  ค้นคว้า อย่างละเอียด  ศึกษา อย่างละเอียด  ขุดคุ้ย ข้อมูล  investigate research kon-ha-kor-mun-yang-la-iad

 

delve

VT ขุด หา  ขุด  ขุด ด้วย พลั่ว  dig excavate kud-ha

 

delve

VT ล้วง หา  คุ้ยหา  ค้นหา  search probe luang-ha

 

delve into

PHRV ค้นหา ข้อมูล อย่างละเอียด ใน เรื่อง  kon-ha-kor-mun-yang-la-iad-nai-rueang

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DELVE

v.t.Delv. [L. A mole, perhaps the delver. ] 1. To dig; to open the ground with a spade.
Delve of convenient depth your thrashing floor.
2. To fathom; to sound; to penetrate.
I cannot delve him to the root.

 

DELVE

n.Delv. A place dug: a pit; a pitfall; a ditch; a den; a cave. Delve of coals, a quantity of fossil coals dug.

 

DELVER

n.One who digs, as with a spade.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DELVE

Delve v. t. [imp. & p. p. Delved; p. pr. & vb. n. Delving. ] Etym: [AS. delfan to dig; akin to OS. bidelban to bury, D. delven to dig, MHG. telben, and possibly to E. dale. Cf. Delf a mine. ]

 

1. To dig; to open (the ground ) as with a spade. Delve of convenient depth your thrashing flooDryden.

 

2. To dig into; to penetrate; to trace out; to fathom. I can not delve him to the root. Shak.

 

DELVE

DELVE Delve, v. i.

 

Defn: To dig or labor with a spade, or as with a spade; to labor as a drudge. Delve may I not: I shame to beg. Wyclif (Luke xvi. 3 ).

 

DELVE

Delve, n. Etym: [See Delve, v. t., and cf. Delf a mine. ]

 

Defn: A place dug; a pit; a ditch; a den; a cave. Which to that shady delve him brought at last The very tigers from their delves Look out. Moore.

 

DELVER

DELVER Delv "er, n.

 

Defn: One who digs, as with a spade.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

delve

delve |delv dɛlv | ▶verb [ no obj. ] reach inside a receptacle and search for something: she delved in her pocket. • research or make painstaking inquiries into something: as we delve further into the atom's secrets. • [ with obj. ] literary dig; excavate: (as adj. delved ) : the approach from the surface above had awed her, so hugely delved were the tunnels. DERIVATIVES delv er noun ORIGIN Old English delfan ‘dig ’; related to Dutch delven.

 

Oxford Dictionary

delve

delve |dɛlv | ▶verb [ no obj. ] 1 reach inside a receptacle and search for something: she delved in her pocket. • research or make painstaking enquiries into something: the society is determined to delve deeper into the matter. 2 archaic dig; excavate. DERIVATIVES delver noun ORIGIN Old English delfan ‘dig ’, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch delven.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

delve

delve verb 1 she delved into her pocket: rummage (around /about ) in, search, hunt in, scrabble around in, root around /about in, ferret (about /around ) in, fish about /around in, dig into /in; go through, rifle through. 2 we must delve into the matter more deeply: investigate, inquire into, probe, explore, research, look into, go into.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

delve

delve verb 1 she delved in her pocket: rummage (about /around /round ) in, search (through ), hunt through, scrabble about /around in, root about /around in, ferret (about /around ) in, fish about /around in, poke about /around in, dig in, grub about /around in, go through, burrow in; rifle through, scour, ransack, turn upside down, turn inside out; Brit. informal rootle around in; Austral. /NZ informal fossick through; rare roust around in. 2 the society is determined to delve deeper into the matter: investigate, conduct investigations into, make enquiries into, enquire into, probe, examine, explore, research, study, look into, go into; try to get to the bottom of.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

delve

delve /delv /動詞 自動詞 1 «…を » (知識などを求めて )掘り下げる, 精査する, 探求する «into , among » ▸ delve into books 書物を調べる 2 〈道路などが 〉突然下がる .3 ｟詩 古 ｠(くわで )掘る .他動詞 ｟詩 古 ｠…を掘る (dig ); 〈畑 〉をたがやす .