Sediment
['sedɪm(ə)nt] or ['sɛdɪmənt]
Definition
(noun.) matter that has been deposited by some natural process.
(verb.) settle as sediment.
(verb.) deposit as a sediment.
Typist: Penelope--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Dregs, lees, settlings, grounds, precipitate, DUNDER.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Settlement, lees, dregs, grounds, refuse, dross, residuum, precipitate
ANT:Elutriation, lixiviation, clarification, colature, edulcoration, nitration
Typist: Sonia
Definition
n. what settles at the bottom of a liquid: dregs.—adj. Sedimen′tary pertaining to consisting of or formed by sediment.—n. Sedimentā′tion.
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Examples
- 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. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Sediment ary rocks, like old red sandstone, and, according to Werner, basa lt, are in a third class. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Or sediment may be deposited to any thickness and extent over a shallow bottom, if it continue slowly to subside. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The bottom of the cup has a muddy sediment in it half an inch deep. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The deposits thus left by the evaporation of the sea water gradually became hidden by sediment and soil, and lost to sight. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- No loss of active material, hence no sediment short-circuits. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Shells and bones decay and disappear when left on the bottom of the sea, where sediment is not accumulating. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The filter should be covered with fine woven wire, outside of which should be fastened a flannel cloth to catch all escaping sediment. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- By the sixth century A.D. the populations of Europe and North Africa had been stirred up like sediment. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- 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. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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