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sediment
| sedimental
| sedimentary
| sedimentary clay
| sedimentary rock
| sedimentation
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sediment
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun sediment has 1 sense
- sediment(n = noun.object) deposit - matter that has been deposited by some natural process; Array is a kind of matter
has particulars: alluvial deposit, alluvial sediment, alluvion, alluvium, dregs, settlings, lees, lick, salt lick, evaporite
Derived form adjective sedimentary1
Verb sediment has 2 senses
- sediment(v = verb.motion) Array - deposit as a sediment; Array is one way to deposit, fix, posit, situate
- sediment(v = verb.motion) Array - settle as sediment; Array is one way to settle, settle down
Derived form noun sedimentation1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
CIDE DICTIONARY
sediment, n. [F. sédiment, L. sedimentum a settling, fr. sedere to sit, to settle. See Sit.].
- The matter which subsides to the bottom, from water or any other liquid; settlings; lees; dregs. [1913 Webster]
- The material of which sedimentary rocks are formed. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
sediment, n.
1 matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid; dregs.
2 Geol. matter that is carried by water or wind and deposited on the surface of the land, and may in time become consolidated into rock.
1 matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid; dregs.
2 Geol. matter that is carried by water or wind and deposited on the surface of the land, and may in time become consolidated into rock.
Derivative
sedimentary adj. sedimentation n.
Etymology
F s{eacute}diment or L sedimentum (as SEDILE)
THESAURUS
sediment
alluvion, alluvium, ash, bottoms, cinder, clinker, debris, deposit, deposition, deposits, detritus, diluvium, draff, dregs, drift, dross, ember, feces, froth, grounds, lees, loess, moraine, offscum, precipitate, precipitation, remains, residue, residuum, scoria, scree, scum, sedimentate, settlings, silt, sinter, slag, smut, soot, sublimateROGET THESAURUS
sediment
Uncleanness
N uncleanness, impurity, immundity, immundicity, impurity, defilement, contamination, defoedation, soilure, soiliness, abomination, leaven, taint, tainture, fetor, decay, putrescence, putrefaction, corruption, mold, must, mildew, dry rot, mucor, rubigo, slovenry, slovenliness, squalor, dowdy, drab, slut, malkin, slattern, sloven, slammerkin, slammock, slummock, scrub, draggle-tail, mudlark, dust-man, sweep, beast, dirt, filth, soil, slop, dust, cobweb, flue, smoke, soot, smudge, smut, grit, grime, raff, sossle, sozzle, sordes, dregs, grounds, lees, argol, sediment, settlement heeltap, dross, drossiness, mother, precipitate, scoriae, ashes, cinders, recrement, slag, scum, froth, hogwash, ditchwater, dishwater, bilgewater, rinsings, cheeseparings, sweepings, offscourings, outscourings, off scum, caput mortuum, residuum, sprue, fecula, clinker, draff, scurf, scurfiness, exuviae, morphea, fur, furfur, dandruff, tartar, riffraff, vermin, louse, flea, bug, chinch, mud, mire, quagmire, alluvium, silt, sludge, slime, slush, slosh, sposh, spawn, offal, gurry, lientery, garbage, carrion, excreta, slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria, faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap, shit, sewage, sewerage, muck, coprolite, guano, manure, compost, dunghill, colluvies, mixen, midden, bog, laystall, sink, privy, jakes, toilet, john, head, cess, cesspool, sump, sough, cloaca, latrines, drain, sewer, common sewer, Cloacina, dust hole, sty, pigsty, lair, den, Augean stable, sink of corruption, slum, rookery, dirty, filthy, grimy, unclean, impure, soiled, not to be handled with kid gloves, dusty, snuffy, smutty, sooty, smoky, thick, turbid, dreggy, slimy, mussy, slovenly, untidy, messy, uncleanly, unkempt, sluttish, dowdy, draggle-tailed, uncombed, unscoured, unswept, unwiped, unwashed, unstrained, unpurified, squalid, lutose, slammocky, slummocky, sozzly, nasty, coarse, foul, offensive, abominable, beastly, reeky, reechy, fetid, decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid, rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral, lentiginous, touched, fusty, effete, reasty, rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty, putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied, saprogenic, saprogenous, purulent, carious, peccant, fecal, feculent, stercoraceous, excrementitious, scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous, gory, bloody, rotting, rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese, crapulous, gross, fimetarious, fimicolous, they that touch pitch will be defiled.
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