different between excavator vs cavity

English

Etymology

excavate +? -or.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??ksk??ve?t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??ksk??ve?t?/
• Hyphenation: ex?ca?vat?or

Noun

excavator (plural excavators)

1. A person who excavates.
2. A curette used to scrape out pathological material.
3. A vehicle, often on tracks, used to dig ditches etc; a backhoe; digger.

Hyponyms

• dragline, dragline excavator

Derived terms

• dragline excavator

Translations

See also

• Excavata

References

• excavators on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Latin

Verb

excav?tor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of excav?
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of excav?

Romanian

Etymology

From French excavateur

Noun

excavator n (plural excavatoare)

1. (excavator), digger

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English cavity, from Middle French cavité, from Late Latin cavitas, from Latin cavus (“hollow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kæv?ti/
• • (US) IPA^(key): [?k?æv??i]

Noun

cavity (plural cavities)

1. A hole or hollow depression.
2. A hollow area within the body (such as the sinuses).
3. (dentistry) A small or large hole in a tooth caused by caries; often also a soft area adjacent to the hole also affected by caries.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:hole
• (dentistry): caries

Derived terms

Related terms

• cave
• concave
• excavate
• excavation
• excavator

Translations

Further reading

• cavity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• cavity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• cavity at OneLook Dictionary Search