DREDGE
Dictionary entry overview: What does dredge mean?
• DREDGE (noun)
The noun DREDGE has 1 sense:
1. a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed
Familiarity information: DREDGE used as a noun is very rare.
• DREDGE (verb)
The verb DREDGE has 3 senses:
1. cover before cooking
2. search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost
3. remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water
Familiarity information: DREDGE used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• DREDGE (noun)
Meaning:
A power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("dredge" is a kind of...):
digger; excavator; power shovel; shovel (a machine for excavating)
Meronyms (parts of "dredge"):
dredging bucket (a bucket for lifting material from a channel or riverbed)
scoop; scoop shovel (the shovel or bucket of dredge or backhoe)
Holonyms ("dredge" is a part of...):
dredger (a barge (or a vessel resembling a barge) that is used for dredging)
• DREDGE (verb)
Meaning:
Cover before cooking
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Context example:
dredge the chicken in flour before frying it
Hypernyms (to "dredge" is one way to...):
coat; surface (put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface)
Domain category:
cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "dredge"):
flour (cover with flour)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
Meaning:
Search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
dredge; drag
Hypernyms (to "dredge" is one way to...):
look for; search; seek (try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence examples:
The men dredge the area for animals
The men dredge for animals in the area
Meaning:
Remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "dredge" is one way to...):
remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
