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Verb
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dredges, 3rd person singular present; dredged, past tense; dredged, past participle; dredging, present participle;
  1. Sprinkle (food) with a powdered substance, typically flour or sugar
    • - dredge the bananas with sugar and cinnamon
Noun
  1. An apparatus for bringing up objects or mud from a river or seabed by scooping or dragging

  2. A dredger

  1. a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed
  2. cover before cooking; "dredge the chicken in flour before frying it"
  3. search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost
  4. Dredging is a cooking technique used to coat wet or moist foods with a dry ingredient prior to cooking. Put most simply, dredging involves little more than pulling/rolling the wet food through the dry material to provide an even coating. ...
  5. Dredging is an excavation activity or operation usually carried out at least partly underwater, in shallow seas or fresh water areas with the purpose of gathering up bottom sediments and disposing of them at a different location. This technique is often used to keep waterways navigable.
  6. (Dredging (astronomy)) Dredge-up refers to a period in the evolution of a star where a surface convection zone extends down to the layers where material has undergone nuclear fusion. ...
  7. Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as: A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds. A dredging machine. ...
  8. (Dredged) Aggregate- Aggregate generally comprised of sand, gravel and soil which has been removed by machine from under water, for example, from rivers, lakes and oceans.
  9. (dredging) Removal of mud from the bottom of water bodies. This can disturb the ecosystem and causes silting that kills aquatic life. Dredging of contaminated muds can expose biota to heavy metals and other toxics. ...
  10. (Dredging) The removal of sediment or the excavation of tidal or subtidal bottom to provide sufficient depths for navigation or anchorage, or to obtain material for construction or for beach nourishment.
  11. (Dredging) is the removal of sediment to deepen access channels, provide turning basins for ships and to maintain adequate water depth along waterside facilities.
  12. (Dredging) A method for deepening streams, lakes, or reservoirs by scraping and removing solids from the bottom.
  13. (DREDGING) (SMP) Excavation or displacement of the bottom or SHORELINE of a water body. Dredging can be accomplished with mechanical or hydraulic machines. ...
  14. (DREDGING) A mining process specific to placer deposits associated with ancient alluvial or glacial activity.
  15. (Dredging (hydraulic)) is the removal of sand, sediments, silts, fines and sludge from the bottom of ponds, lakes, rivers or any other contained waterborne environment. The material is removed via the dredge and pumped to a material disposal site through pipelines.
  16. (Dredging (of anchor)) Moving of an anchor over the sea bottom to control the movement of the vessel
  17. (Dredging) A mechanical operation that may use heavy machinery to remove river material to improve the channel or as part of a mining operation.
  18. (Dredging) Excavation by any means in any water body or wetland. Excavation or creation of a water body which is or is to be connected to waters, directly or via excavated water bodies or a series of excavated water bodies.
  19. (Dredging) Form of sediment removal that involves clearing bottom sediment from a lake to increase the depth, control nuisance aquatic vegetation, control nutrient release from sediments, and to remove toxic substances.
  20. (Dredging) Mechanical removal of sediment from the bottom of water bodies, usually done to allow navigation in areas which are naturally shallow.
  21. (Dredging) Removing material (usually sediments) from wetlands or waterways, usually to make them deeper and wider.
  22. (Dredging) Removing silt from the bed of a river or port in order to deepen or maintain the depth of harbours or entrances to rivers.
  23. (Dredging) Sergio Veludo on Fotopedia
  24. (Dredging) The fishing vessel tows a rigid steel framed dredge along the seafloor to gather scallops or, in the case of oyster capture, a steel ring mesh dredge is used.
  25. (Dredging) The process of excavating, creating, or altering a water body such as a river, lake or estuary, by scooping or sucking up sediment from the bed in order to deepen it.2