Dredge (disambiguation)
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Dredge or dredging may refer to:
- Dredging, underwater excavation work
- Dredge, CaliforniaDredge, CaliforniaDredge is a former settlement in Butte County, California, United States. It was located a few miles east-southeast of Chico, and 1 mile east of Butte Creek.-References:...
, former community in Butte County - Dragline excavatorDragline excavatorA dragline excavator is a piece of heavy equipment used in civil engineering and surface mining.In civil engineering the smaller types are used for road, port construction, and as pile driving rigs. The larger types are used in strip-mining operations to move overburden above coal, and for...
, tool for dredging in mining; piece of heavy equipment used to remove overburden in an open pit or strip mine- In the case of gold placer miningPlacer miningPlacer mining is the mining of alluvial deposits for minerals. This may be done by open-pit or by various surface excavating equipment or tunneling equipment....
, a dredge is used to pick up ore and gravel, send it through sluices to remove gold, and deposit the remaining rock, or tailings, behind the dredge
- In the case of gold placer mining
- Data dredgingData dredgingData dredging is the inappropriate use of data mining to uncover misleading relationships in data. Data-snooping bias is a form of statistical bias that arises from this misuse of statistics...
, inappropriate use of statistics that concentrates on local irregularities - Dredge (agriculture), mixture of barleyBarleyBarley is a major cereal grain, a member of the grass family. It serves as a major animal fodder, as a base malt for beer and certain distilled beverages, and as a component of various health foods...
and oatOatThe common oat is a species of cereal grain grown for its seed, which is known by the same name . While oats are suitable for human consumption as oatmeal and rolled oats, one of the most common uses is as livestock feed...
s planted together used in brewing; notable for being planted in medieval Europe - Dredge (cooking), coating a food with a dry ingredient (such as flour or icing sugar) by first immersing it in a wet coating, such as milk or egg
- Bradley DredgeBradley DredgeBradley Dredge is a Welsh professional golfer.Dredge was born in Tredegar. He turned professional in 1996.Dredge attempted to gain his card on the European Tour via the qualifying school in 1995 and 1996, the second time doing sufficiently well to gain a place on the Challenge Tour for 1997...
(b. 1973), European Tour golfer who helped Wales win the World Cup Of Golf - Dredger (comic character), tough Dirty Harry-type cop in the Action comic book series
- Dredging (astronomy), process in stellar evolutionStellar evolutionStellar evolution is the process by which a star undergoes a sequence of radical changes during its lifetime. Depending on the mass of the star, this lifetime ranges from only a few million years to trillions of years .Stellar evolution is not studied by observing the life of a single...
in which heavier elements produced via fusion in the interior of stars are brought to the surface through convection - DredgDredgDredg is an American rock group formed in 1993 in Los Gatos, California. The band consists of vocalist Gavin Hayes, guitarist Mark Engles, bassist Drew Roulette and drummer Dino Campanella....
, American progressive alternative rock band - Scallop dredgeScallop dredgeA fishing dredge, also known as a scallop dredge, oyster dredge, etc, is a kind of dredge which is towed along the bottom of the sea by a fishing boat in order to collect a targeted edible bottom-dwelling species. The gear is used to fish for scallops, oysters and other species of clams, crabs, and...
or oyster dredge, a type of fishing dredge used to harvest mollusks