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Sediment definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SED'IMENT, n. [L. sedimentum, from sedeo, to settle.] The matter which subsides to the bottom of liquors; settlings; lees; dregs.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: matter that has been deposited by some natural process [syn: sediment, deposit] v
1: deposit as a sediment
2: settle as sediment

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Latin sedimentum settling, from sed?re to sit, sink down Date: 1547 1. the matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid 2. material deposited by water, wind, or glaciers II. Date: 1859 transitive verb to deposit as sediment intransitive verb 1. to settle to the bottom in a liquid 2. to deposit sediment

Oxford Reference Dictionary

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. Derivatives: sedimentary adj. sedimentation n. Etymology: F sédiment or L sedimentum (as SEDILE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sediment Sed"i*ment, n. [F. s['e]diment, L. sedimentum a settling, fr. sedere to sit, to settle. See Sit.] 1. The matter which subsides to the bottom, frrom water or any other liquid; settlings; lees; dregs. 2. (Geol.) The material of which sedimentary rocks are formed.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(sediments) Sediment is solid material that settles at the bottom of a liquid, especially earth and pieces of rock that have been carried along and then left somewhere by water, ice, or wind. Many organisms that die in the sea are soon buried by sediment. N-VAR

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Dregs, lees, settlings, grounds, precipitate.

Moby Thesaurus

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, sublimate