Dredging vs Mooring - What's the difference?
dredging | mooring |
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.
A place to moor a vessel
The act of securing a vessel with a cable or anchor etc.
(figuratively) Something to which one adheres to, or the means that help one maintain a stable position and keep one's identity - moral, intellectual, political, etc.
*1890 , John George Nicolay and John Hay,
*:The party of pro-slavery reaction was for the moment in the ascendant; and as by an irresistible impulse, the Supreme Court of the United States was swept from its hitherto impartial judicial moorings into the dangerous seas of polities.
*1898 , "
*:Friendship from its moorings strays,
*:Love binds fast together;
*:Friendship is for balmy days,
*:Love for stormy weather.
As verbs the difference between dredging and mooring
is that dredging is while mooring is .As nouns the difference between dredging and mooring
is that dredging is that which is dredged up while mooring is a place to moor a vessel.dredging
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(en noun)- Soundings showed wide variations in depths of water, and from the dredgings of the bottom came new types of sediment