| VERB | contact | dredge | cover before cooking |
|---|---|---|---|
| contact | dredge, drag | search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost | |
| contact | dredge | remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water | |
| NOUN | artifact | dredge | a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed |
| Sounds | dreh'jh | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | allege ... wedge: 11 rhymes with ehjh... | |
| Meaning | A power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed. | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of | dredger | A barge (or a vessel resembling a barge) that is used for dredging |
| Parts | dredging bucket | A bucket for lifting material from a channel or riverbed |
| scoop, scoop shovel | The shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe | |
| Broader | power shovel, excavator, digger, shovel | A machine for excavating |
| Spanish | dragado, draga | |
| Catalan | draga | |
| Verbs | dredge | remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water |
| dredge | search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost | |
| Meaning | Cover before cooking. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something PP | |
| Example | "dredge the chicken in flour before frying it" | |
| Category | cooking, cookery, preparation | The act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat |
| Narrower | flour | Cover with flour |
| Broader | coat, surface | Put a coat on |
| Spanish | dragar, espolvorear | |
| Meaning | search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Model | The men dredge the area for animals; The men dredge for animals in the area | |
| Synonym | drag | |
| Broader | search, seek, look for | try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of |
| Spanish | arrastrar, dragar, rastrear | |
| Catalan | dragar, rastrejar | |
| Nouns | dredge | a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed |
| Meaning | Remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something PP | |
| Broader | remove, take, take away, withdraw | Remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract |
| Spanish | dragar | |
| Catalan | dragar | |
| Nouns | dredge | a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed |
| dredger | a barge (or a vessel resembling a barge) that is used for dredging | |
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