Dredging vs Mining - What's the difference?
dredging | mining |
That which is dredged up.
* 2011 , John P. Rafferty, Oceans and Oceanography (page 189)
(uncountable) the act of using a dredger or excavator to dredge a harbour, river, channel or watercourse.
(senseid) The activity of removing solid valuables from the earth.
(figuratively) Any activity that extracts or undermines.
* (Jonathan Swift)
(military) The activity of placing explosives underground, rigged to explode
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
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(head)Noun
(en noun)- Soundings showed wide variations in depths of water, and from the dredgings of the bottom came new types of sediment
mining
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Noun
- gold mining
- His extensive mining for apparently statistically significant results made any of his results questionable.
- 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.