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Definition: Dredge |
DredgeNoun1. A power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed. Verb1. Cover before cooking; "dredge the chicken in flour before frying it". 2. Search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost. 3. Remove with a dredge, usually from a bottom of a body of water. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dredge" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references) |
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Transportation | A vessel or floating structure equipped with excavating machinery employed in deepening channels and harbours, and removing submarine obstructions. Source: European Union. (references) |
Bible | Dredge (Job 24:6). See CORN. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Food & Agriculture | An apparatus usually in the form of an oblong iron frame with an attached bag net. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. Large floating machine used in underwater excavation for developing and maintaining water depths in canals, rivers, and harbors; raising the level of lowland areas and improving drainage; constructing dams and dikes; removing overburden from submerged orebodies prior to openpit mining; or recovering subaqueous deposits having commercial value. CF:grab sampler b. See:dradge c. Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water. d. A type of bag net used for investigating the fauna of the sea bottom e. In dry process enameling: (1) the application of dry, powdered frit to hot ware by sifting; and (2) the sieve used to apply powdered porcelain enamel frit to the ware. Also called dredging f. Any of various machines equipped with scooping or suction devices used in deepening harbors and waterways and in underwater minin. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: DredgeSynonym: drag (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Assemblage | Assemble, muster; bring together, get together, put together, draw together, scrape together, lump together; collect, collocate, colligate; get, whip in; gather; hold a meeting; convene, convoke, convocate; rake up, dredge; heap, mass, pile; pack, put up, truss, cram; acervate; agglomerate, aggregate; compile; group, aggroup, concentrate, unite; collect into a focus, bring into a focus; amass, accumulate; (store); collect in a dragnet; heap Ossa upon Pelion. |
Elevation | Take up, drag up, fish up; dredge. |
Lever; crane, derrick, windlass, capstan, winch; dredge, dredger, dredging machine. | |
Extraction | Verb: extract, draw; take out, draw out, pull out, tear out, pluck out, pick out, get out; wring from, wrench; extort; root up, weed up, grub up, rake up, root out, weed out, grub out, rake out; eradicate; pull up by the roots, pluck up by the roots; averruncate; unroot; uproot, pull up, extirpate, dredge. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Dredge haul on EXPLORER Thongs are asking for crushed foot. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Bottom samples from dredge haul south of Australia Robert F. Dill and Robert S. Dietz on right OCEANOGRAPHER around the world cruise. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | An old gold dredge west of Nome. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Hart-Miller Island, once two islands that nearly eroded into extinction, are now one. They are being regenerated and enlarged with dredge spoils from Baltimore Harbor. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Sorting a dredge haul of holothurians on the deck of the NATHANIEL PALMER. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Clam dredging with the dredge deployed from the starboard side. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Starfish attacking young oysters. Special equipment is used to dredge or scrape starfish off oyster beds in order to reduce the damage to the oysters. F&W 12,001. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Barren Island before the planting. The work at Barren Island provided a valuable lesson. Geotubes were placed around the perimeter of the island to form a wave break but they failed and the dredge material was washed away behind the tubes. Wave breaks in the future will be constructed of rock, which is more expensive, but a better alternative. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Geotubes filled with dredge material are made of polypropylene. The tubes were placed to protect the plantings at Barren Island. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Detached orifice of beach replenishment dredge pipeline observed during Girl Scout beach study. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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Business | Construction of the port started in 1938 but was not completed until 1951 because of World War II. Funding for the construction of the port was obtained via a loan from the World Bank to dredge the sand bar, deepen the river, and purchase loading/unloading equipment. (references) | |
Economic History | Mexico | The port of Progreso started an expansion/renovation project in the year 2000 with an investment of more than US$80 million to expand a container terminal, build a cruise terminal, dredge a 5 km. navigation channel, and make some port improvements designed to protect the port's infrastructure, such as a wave breaker. (references) |
Bahrain | Initially, bids for the contract to dredge 15 cubic meter of material and the reclamation of up to 400 hectares were submitted by five prequalified companies, the US' Great Lakes Dredge&Dock Company, Ham Dredging of the Netherlands, the UK/Dutch Royal Boskalis Westminster, Jan de Nul of Belgium and Geneva-registered Archirodon Construction (Overseas). (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Dredge" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 60.98% of the time. "Dredge" is used about 82 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 60.98% | 50 | 48,117 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 17.07% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (singular) | 13.41% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (proper) | 8.54% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 82 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "dredge" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Dredge | Last name | 200 | 38,160 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "dredge": dredge a channel ♦ dredge for ♦ dredge or dredger ♦ dredge up ♦ Flour dredge ♦ mechanized dredge ♦ oyster dredge. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "dredge": all-dredge. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "dredge"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | dragë (dredger), rrjetë fundore (drag-net, trawl), qëmtoj, peshkoj me rrjetë fundore, mbledh (accumulate, add, add together, assemble, bank, brush up, call in, call together, cast, cast up, clench, collate, collect, compile, compress, congregate, convene, convoke, draw, drum up, focus, fold, fund, furl, gather, get together, group, herd, impound, kilt, levy, lift, make up, pack, pick, pick off, pick up, pool, rally, reap, round up, scoop up, shut, sweep, take, total, totalize), kap me rrjetë fundore, gërryej (be corroded, be eroded, cave, chew, corrode, erode, gouge, hollow out, honeycomb, rasp, scoop out, scuff, tear, tear to pieces). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | جرف الوحل, إلتقط المحار بشبكة, آلة الحفر, رش السكر, رش الدقيق, شبكة لالتقاط المحار. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | копая (break ground, delve, dig, excavate, fossick, grub, hoe, mine, navvy, pickax, scoop, scoop out, shovel), греба (dip, ladle, oar, pull, pull an oar, rake, row, scoop, shovel), мрежа за стриди, земекопачка, екскаватор (dredger, excavator, grab, navvy, power shovel, shovel), поръсвам (dust, perfuse, powder, sift, sprinkle), изваждам наяве (unkennel), драга (drag, dredger, excavator), драгирам. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 挖泥机. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vylovit (fish out), hloubit (dig), bagrovat (dig). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | skrabevod, skraber (bug, disc scraper, doctor, doctor blade, doctor knife, drag hooks, flight, go-devil, knife, paddle, pig, pipeline cleaner, pipeline scraper, scraper, squeegee), opmudringsfartoej (dredger), opmudringsfartøj, muddermaskine (dredge(USA), dredger). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | dreg (dredge(USA), dredger, gang hooks, grapnel, harrow, harrowfork), slootgraver en-reiniger, mosselkor, kor (trawl, trawl net), baggermolen (drag, dredger, dredging engine), baggermachine (dredger). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | لاروبی کردن (Drag), لاروب , الت تنقیه قنات ومانندان . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | osterihara. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | drague (dragnet), dragueur (drag, dredger). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | ausbaggern (excavate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κόσκινο (riddle, screen, sieve), βυθοκόρος (hopper), βορβοροφάγοσ, μηχανή εκσκαφής ή/και καθαρισμού τάφρων, πλοίο-βυθοκόρος (dredger), πασπαλίζω (powder, sprinkle), εκσκαφέας-καθαριστής τάφρων, εκβαθύνω, δράγα, δίκτιο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מחפר (digger, excavator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kotróhajó, kotor (to drag, to dredge out, to dredge up, to rabble, to scoop), felszínre hoz (to dredge, to dredge up), behint (bestrew, powder, sowed, sown, to dredge, to dust, to sow, to strew). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pukat (seine, sweep-net, trail-net, trawl), mengeruk (scrape, stick one's hand into). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | draga (drag). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 浚う (to dredge, to sweep away, to wash away). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | さらう (to abduct, to carry off, to dredge, to kidnap, to practise, to rehearse, to review, to run away with, to sweep away, to wash away). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sleaydey (drag, draggle, draw along, dredging, sledge, sleigh, trail), sleayd (drag, sledge, toboggan, trail, trailer), duinaghey (dredging), dredjal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | mudre, muddermaskin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | edgedray draga (bagger, drag). (various references) dragã (darling, dear, drag, dredger, honey, love, my darling, my dear, sweetheart), pudra (powder, puff, whiten), presãra (asperse, Dot, interlard, intersperse, lard, punctuate, sand, scatter, spread, sprinkle, strew), curãţa (brush, brush up, burnish, clean, cleanse, clear, demolish, do, dress, dust, furbish, Gill, grub, mop, mop up, pick, purge, purify, refine, rid, rinse, scavenge, scoop, scour, scrub, skin, trim, wash, wipe), aduce la suprafaţã cu draga. (various references) взвесь (suspension), ловить устриц сетью, драга (creeper, drag, tangle). (various references) očistiti bagerom, kopati (delve, dig, gopher, mine, prospect), iskopati (dig out, dig up, drag up, excavate, grub, plant out, unearth), bager (bagger, drag). (various references) rastra (drag, dragnet, dredger, rake), draga (drag, dredger, excavator). (various references) muddra (Frisk, shake down). (various references) เครื่องจักรขุ"ลอกแม่น้ำหรือลำคลอง, โรยแป้ง, ขุ"ลอก. (various references) dibini taramak (dredge up), tarama aleti kullanmak, tarakla temizlemek, tarak makinası, tarak dubası, serpiştirmek (Dot, drizzle, intersperse, spit, splash, splatter, sprinkle, strew, weave), ağlı kepçe, üzerine serpmek. (various references) землечерпалка (drag-boat, dredger, navvy), драгувати. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dredge": dredged, dredger, dredgers, dredges. (additional references) | |
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"Dredge" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arledge, derde, derge, Derwendeg, Djedje, Dorridge, dredle, dregde, Dregne, dridge, drudgy, fredge, redge, tredge, Tredget. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-e-g-r" | |
-1 letter: dreed, edged, edger, greed, reded. | |
-2 letters: deed, deer, dere, dree, dreg, edge, eger, geed, gree, redd, rede, reed. | |
-3 letters: dee, ere, erg, ged, gee, red, ree, reg. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, er, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-e-e-g-r" | |
+1 letter: degrade, degreed, dredged, dredger, dredges. | |
+2 letters: badgered, begirded, daggered, dangered, degermed, degraded, degrader, degrades, demerged, deranged, deterged, diverged, dogeared, dredgers, engirded, gandered, gardened, gendered, hardedge, regarded, regilded, regraded, rejudged. | |
+3 letters: bedrugged, begirdled, begrudged, degraders, degreased, deraigned, derogated, desugared, digressed, disagreed, dodgeries, engirdled, glandered, guerdoned, hardedges, pedigreed, prejudged, redamaged, redargued, reddening, renegaded, repledged, rewedding. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 72 65 64 67 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .-. . -.. --. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01110010 01100101 01100100 01100111 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D r e d g e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0072 0065 0064 0067 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)388471707371 |
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