To dig is to remove solid material from a surface.

Dig or DIG may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

  • Dig!, a 2004 documentary
  • Dig, a 1971 animated film by John Hubley and Faith Hubley
  • Dig, a 2011 short film by Joshua Caldwell
  • Dig (2022 film), a film by K. Asher Levin

Music

Groups and labels

  • Dig (band), an American rock band
  • Directions in Groove, or DIG, a defunct Australian acid jazz band

Albums

  • Dig (Adam Again album) or the title song, 1992
  • Dig (Boz Scaggs album), 2001
  • Dig (Dig album), 1993
  • Dig (I Mother Earth album), 1993
  • Dig (Miles Davis album) or the title song, 1956
  • Dig (Toshiko Akiyoshi album) or the title song, 1993
  • Dig?, by Bill Bruford's Earthworks, 1989

Songs

  • "Dig" (composition), a jazz standard by Miles Davis, 1951
  • "Dig" (Incubus song), 2007
  • "Dig" (Mark Lizotte song), 1999
  • "Dig" (Mudvayne song), 2000
  • "Dig", by Collective Soul from Collective Soul, 2009
  • "Dig", by NOFX from the album Punk in Drublic, 1994
  • "Dig", by Quiet Riot from Down to the Bone, 1995

Periodicals

  • Dig (magazine), a children's magazine associated with the Archaeological Institute of America
  • Weekly Dig, an alternative newsweekly in Boston, Massachusetts

Other arts, entertainment, and media

  • Dig (2015 TV series), an American action series
  • Dig (upcoming TV series), an American comedy series
  • ABC DiG, an Australian digital radio service
  • Carl Diggler, a fictional American journalist whose nickname and column are called "The Dig"
  • Dig (Clune book), a 1937 non-fiction book by Frank Clune
  • Dig (novel), a 2019 young adult novel by A. S. King

Computing and technology

  • dig (command), a Unix network utility for querying DNS name servers
  • DIG, a filename extension referring to either Digilink or Sound Designer files

Law and law enforcement

  • Deputy inspector general of police, an Indian, Pakistani or Sri Lankan police service officer
  • Deputy inspector general of prisons, an Indian or Pakistani provincial prison service officer
  • Dismissed as improvidently granted, in the procedures of the U.S. Supreme Court, a decision regarding a previously granted appeal

Transport

  • Digby & Sowton railway station, Devon, England; National Rail station code DIG
  • Diqing Shangri-La Airport, Yunnan, China; IATA airport code DIG

Other uses

  • Archaeological dig, an excavation
  • Volleyball dig, often shortened to "dig"
  • Dig (woreda), a district of Somali Region, Ethiopia
  • DIG: an archaeological adventure, an educational resource in York, England
  • Digoxigenin or dig, a plant-produced steroid used for biochemical "tagging"
  • Dig (restaurant), an American fast-casual restaurant chain
  • Disablement Income Group, a British disability rights organization

See also

  • The Dig (disambiguation)
  • Big Dig, a megaproject in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
  • Deeg, a city in Rajasthan, India
  • Digg, a community-based popularity website
  • Digger (disambiguation)