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dredging

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for dredging.

Editorial note

How are they going to stop the lagoon from silting up and becoming shallower, short of dredging it regularly?

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Quick take

That which is dredged up.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of dredging gathered in one view.

noun

That which is dredged up.

noun

(uncountable) The act of using a dredger or excavator to dredge a harbour, river, channel or watercourse.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for dredging.

noun

That which is dredged up.

noun

(uncountable) The act of using a dredger or excavator to dredge a harbour, river, channel or watercourse.

Example sentences

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How are they going to stop the lagoon from silting up and becoming shallower, short of dredging it regularly?

2

It erodes quickly and hence requires upkeep (dredging from where it flows to, and restocking where it flows from).

3

Why it's worth dredging up, with apparently no new or novel updates, is beyond me.

4

It likely won't, because it will be heavily silted before then, and dredging a lagoon that size is really quite expensive.

5

It is like the premise of a sci-fi novel where future states slowly creep along by dredging and filling in land.

6

That stirred up distant memories of reading Hofstadter, dredging up some of his vocabulary.

7

What do we get out of dredging this particular argument up again and again and again?

8

I've spent far too much time dredging around the information that is currently publicly available...

9

Off the coast of florida here we have sandmines dredging in the gulfstream.

10

However I will concede that because of the shear volume of data that google collects and retains it is a much is a worrying if they decide that it is ok for them to go dredging.

11

Just curious: why are we dredging up stuff from 1999?

12

Given they only have 300 data points and they have tested at least 10 hypothesises it is almost certain that they have been engaged in a massive example of data dredging [1].

Quote examples

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I remember people dredging up the "conspiracy nut" term whenever mass surveillance came up before the Snowden leaks finally made the scope of it undeniable.

Proper noun examples

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Dredging my memory there's companies like Anamorphic which was acquihired by Sun in 97 to work on Java.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use dredging in a sentence?

How are they going to stop the lagoon from silting up and becoming shallower, short of dredging it regularly?

What does dredging mean?

That which is dredged up.

What part of speech is dredging?

dredging is commonly used as noun.