dig vs spade

dig and spade both are nouns.

dig and spade both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
dig	Yes	No	Yes	No
spade	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, spade is a hyponym of dig; that is, spade is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than dig:

dig: turn up, loosen, or remove earth
spade: dig (up) with a spade

Other hyponyms of dig include furrow, groove, rut, root, rootle, rout, shovel, trowel, burrow, tunnel.

dig (noun)	spade (noun)
the act of digging	a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot
the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow	a playing card in the major suit that has one or more black figures on it
a small gouge (as in the cover of a book)
an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
the site of an archeological exploration

dig (verb)	spade (verb)
get the meaning of something	dig (up) with a spade
turn up, loosen, or remove earth
create by digging
remove the inner part or the core of
poke or thrust abruptly
thrust down or into
remove, harvest, or recover by digging
work hard

Difference between dig and spade

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