What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Dredging vs Mining - What's the difference?

dredging | mining |

As verbs the difference between dredging and mining

is that dredging is while mining is .

As nouns the difference between dredging and mining

is that dredging is that which is dredged up while mining is (senseid) the activity of removing solid valuables from the earth.

dredging

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which is dredged up.
  • * 2011 , John P. Rafferty, Oceans and Oceanography (page 189)
  • Soundings showed wide variations in depths of water, and from the dredgings of the bottom came new types of sediment
  • (uncountable) the act of using a dredger or excavator to dredge a harbour, river, channel or watercourse.
  • mining

    English

    Noun

  • (senseid) The activity of removing solid valuables from the earth.
  • gold mining
  • (figuratively) Any activity that extracts or undermines.
  • His extensive mining for apparently statistically significant results made any of his results questionable.
  • * (Jonathan Swift)
  • the fabrick, however weak by the delicacy of its composition, would not have fallen so soon, if the foundation had not been injured by the slow minings of regret and vexation.
  • (military) The activity of placing explosives underground, rigged to explode
  • Derived terms

    * defensive mining * offensive mining * open-pit mining * strip-mining * surface mining

    Verb

    (head)
  • Derived terms

    * data mining