Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A collection of small particles, particularly dirt, that precipitates from a river or other body of water.
- v. To deposit material as a sediment.
- v. To be deposited as a sediment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. The matter which subsides to the bottom, from water or any other liquid; settlings; lees; dregs.
- n. The material of which sedimentary rocks are formed.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To allow to settle; settle: said of matter in suspension in a liquid.
- 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.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. settle as sediment
- v. deposit as a sediment
- n. matter that has been deposited by some natural process
Etymologies
Examples
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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.”
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E. coli was deteced in sediment samples but no standards exist for determining human health risks from E. coli in soil or sediment.
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Floats are tethered to the trees so that once felled, no sediment is disturbed.
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That hamburger is greasy and leaves a thin sediment of garbage floating queasily at the bottom of my stomach.
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Levees have cut off the normal overflow of sediment from the Mississippi River which would otherwise gradually rebuild the coast. realist says:
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Once brought to the surface, its contents can be analyzed to determine how much sediment is in the water.
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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.
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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
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A soil removal and long-term sediment and surface water monitoring plan is forthcoming.
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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.
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