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Excavator vs Dredging - What's the difference?

excavator | dredging |

As nouns the difference between excavator and dredging

is that excavator is a person who excavates while dredging is that which is dredged up.

As a verb dredging is

present participle of lang=en.

excavator

English

Noun

(wikipedia excavator) (en noun)
  • A person who excavates
  • A curette used to scrape out pathological material
  • A vehicle, often on tracks, used to dig ditches etc; a backhoe; digger

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    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.