Sediment
['sedɪm(ə)nt] or ['sɛdɪmənt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) matter that has been deposited by some natural process.
(verb.) settle as sediment.
(verb.) deposit as a sediment.
錄入:佩内洛普--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The matter which subsides to the bottom, frrom water or any other liquid; settlings; lees; dregs.
(n.) The material of which sedimentary rocks are formed.
布莱尔整理
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Dregs, lees, settlings, grounds, precipitate, DUNDER.
阿弗丽达整理
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Settlement, lees, dregs, grounds, refuse, dross, residuum, precipitate
ANT:Elutriation, lixiviation, clarification, colature, edulcoration, nitration
校對:索尼亚
解釋/意思:
n. what settles at the bottom of a liquid: dregs.—adj. Sedimen′tary pertaining to consisting of or formed by sediment.—n. Sedimentā′tion.
迪克整理
例句/造句/用法:
- Similarly, the soil is formed from the overhanging mountains; it is washed as sediment into the sea; it is elevated, after consolidation, into the overhanging mountains. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Sediment ary rocks, like old red sandstone, and, according to Werner, basa lt, are in a third class. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Or sediment may be deposited to any thickness and extent over a shallow bottom, if it continue slowly to subside. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The bottom of the cup has a muddy sediment in it half an inch deep. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The deposits thus left by the evaporation of the sea water gradually became hidden by sediment and soil, and lost to sight. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- No loss of active material, hence no sediment short-circuits. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Shells and bones decay and disappear when left on the bottom of the sea, where sediment is not accumulating. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The filter should be covered with fine woven wire, outside of which should be fastened a flannel cloth to catch all escaping sediment. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- By the sixth century A.D. the populations of Europe and North Africa had been stirred up like sediment. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The geologists have studied the whole accumulation of these sediments as it remains to-day, from those of the earliest ages to the most recent. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
錄入:奥维尔