Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Material that settles to the bottom of a liquid; lees.
- n. Solid fragments of inorganic or organic material that come from the weathering of rock and are carried and deposited by wind, water, or ice.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The matter which settles to the bottom of water or any other liquid; settlings; lees; dregs; in geology, detrital material mechanically suspended in or deposited from water; the material of which the sedimentary rocks are composed.
- n. In a steam-boiler, an internal deposit of precipitate from the feed-water, or of solid matter mechanically present, which lies as a loose or soft mud on the heating surfaces: distinguished from scale, which is a hard crystalline coating adhering to the metal.
- To allow to settle; settle: said of matter in suspension in a liquid.
Wiktionary
- n. A collection of small particles, particularly dirt, that precipitates from a river or other body of water.
- v. transitive To deposit material as a sediment.
- v. intransitive To be deposited as a sediment.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The matter which subsides to the bottom, from water or any other liquid; settlings; lees; dregs.
- n. (Geol.) The material of which sedimentary rocks are formed.
WordNet 3.0
- v. settle as sediment
- v. deposit as a sediment
- n. matter that has been deposited by some natural process
Etymologies
- From Latin sedimentum < sedeō. (Wiktionary)
- Latin sedimentum, act of settling, from sedēre, to sit, settle; see sed- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“But Dr. Atiq Rahman, a lead author of a UN report on climate change, says this may not make the country any less vulnerable: “The rate at which sediment is deposited and new land is created is much slower than the rate at which climate change and sea level rises are taking place.””
“E. coli was deteced in sediment samples but no standards exist for determining human health risks from E. coli in soil or sediment.”
“Floats are tethered to the trees so that once felled, no sediment is disturbed.”
“That hamburger is greasy and leaves a thin sediment of garbage floating queasily at the bottom of my stomach.”
“Levees have cut off the normal overflow of sediment from the Mississippi River which would otherwise gradually rebuild the coast. realist says:”
“Once brought to the surface, its contents can be analyzed to determine how much sediment is in the water.”
“Since 2006 he participates in the Sagalasoss Project and so far, most of his research in Sagalassos focuses on the long-term sediment dynamics of the Bügdüz catchment in the western part of the territory of Sagalassos.”
“The sediment is sago in its first stage – a fine powder, which is at once packed into cylinder-like cases for export.”
Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago
“A soil removal and long-term sediment and surface water monitoring plan is forthcoming.”
“But you can’t pick up a paper or turn on the telly without finding people being encouraged to dredge up the dark sediment from the bottoms of their psyches.”
London Theater Journal: Let the Marathon Begin - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sediment’.
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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Aequoria's list
affect, deleterious, nuance, pliant, verbatim, pertinent, latter, municipality, provincial, voyeuristic, circumlocution, wane and 798 more...
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Lees
Items of little or no value that are left behind by physical or biological processes other than passing through an alimentary canal. See also Valse's Leftovers and reesetee's Hogwash! for other tak...
lees, dross, dregs, orts, debris, jetsam, flotsam, rubbage, rubbish, trash, refuse, junk and 130 more...
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Misc. Words.
Words I like to use, words I like but may forget.
corrosion, astonish, solace, ferment, continuum, kinesthetic, permeate, repose, caprice, cardinal, discourse, surrender and 610 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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InstantWordPower
sesquipedalian, optometrist, quadruped, biped, bimonthly, bifocal, bicuspid, bivalve, quadraphonic, quadruplet, quadruple, quadrilateral and 107 more...
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noele's list
vertiginous, verdant, mellifluous, serpentine, verdigris, traject, amaranthine, luminous, phosphorescent, temerous, cerulean, shapeshifter and 531 more...
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Leftovers
Things of a vestigial nature.
vestiges, remnants, debris, detritus, leftovers, artifact, appendix, molt, clippings, shavings, wisdom teeth, residue and 18 more...
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Construction Material for the Immaterial
I like concrete metaphors. These are building supplies I've used for poetry.
...All our joys were clotted
with pearls, all our griefs were denied
with stone, all our words...paint, sandalwood, chalk, aluminum, brick, mother-of-pearl, goldleaf, pigment, mineral, terra-cotta, tempera, ash and 73 more...
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EngagingEnglish
mug, deftly, gauge, billboard, extrovert, assertiveness, sociability, discern, intriguing, stymied, stymie, impart and 71 more...
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Wine Words
We love wine.
wine, pinot, traminette, chardonnay, cask, oak, chablis, riesling, port, winery, ferment, complex and 11 more...
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Muddy Words
Words used to describe mud and associated things.
turbid, Adam, pelacole, lutulent, illutible, roil, dirt, water, squish, mire, bog, swampy and 2 more...
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