Sediment

What do we mean by sediment?

Material that settles to the bottom of a liquid; lees. noun

Solid fragments of inorganic or organic material that come from the weathering of rock and are carried and deposited by wind, water, or ice. noun

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. noun

To allow to settle; settle: said of matter in suspension in a liquid.

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. noun

The matter which subsides to the bottom, from water or any other liquid; settlings; lees; dregs. noun

The material of which sedimentary rocks are formed. noun

A collection of small particles, particularly dirt, that precipitates from a river or other body of water. noun

To deposit material as a sediment. verb

To be deposited as a sediment. verb

Settle as sediment verb

Deposit as a sediment verb

Matter that has been deposited by some natural process noun

A collection of small particles, particularly dirt, that precipitates from a river or other body of water.

Noun; a large sum of cash awarded to the plaintiff whose case is upheld by Judge Joe Brown. ebonic/niglish word derived from "settlement." Urban Dictionary

Sediment adj - something that is so effort, lazy or flat alturnativley it can be used to discribe something that is bad Urban Dictionary

The tangible aftermath of over- flatulance found in the underpants or panty. Can be smelled and felt. Not to be confused with shart. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to sediment:
sediment, pediment, sepiment, sentiment, segment, regiment, rudiment, sedent, leniment, sediments, serment, redient, ledgment, bedient.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word sediment:
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Words that rhyme with sediment:
impediment.

Adjectives that are often used to describe sediment:
urinary, fine, bottom, marine, grained, coarse, much, soft, more, white, unconsolidated, red, thick, sandy, muddy, rich, loose, heavy, finer, brown, organic, abundant, total, original, centrifuged, dry, clastic, cohesive, pelagic, recent, glacial, coarser, black, copious, calcareous, dark, terrigenous, fluvial, active, wet, internal, yellow, less, sea, reddish, whitish, considerable, eroded, suspended, coastal, slight, abnormal, granular, flocculent, sorted, deep, fresh, derived, surficial, like, urine, lacustrine, alluvial, colored, consolidated, enough, laminated, inorganic, borne, clayey, ocean, anoxic, slimy, dust, saturated, crystalline, estuarine, amorphous, light, mixed, solid, sized, freshwater, anaerobic, overlying, excess, mucous, lateritious, earthy.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective sediment:
water, interface, deformation, transport, relationships, relations, samples, discharge, yield, interactions, concentration, load, mixture, concentrations, distribution, trap, delivery, structures, seawater, accumulation, communities, cores, interaction, removal, deposition, yields, bound, gravity, rating, flow, associated, feeding, control, texture, environment, surface, loads, data, habitats, contact, movement, relationship, invertebrates, layer, interrelationships, features, criteria, quality, test, traps, trace, production, assemblages, formation, rates, source, particles, supply, interfaces, records, deposits, balance, sampling, stratigraphy, laden, pollution, mixtures, ratio, layers, respiration, loading, sample, complex, ratios, composition, boundary, sampler, basalt, environments, dwellers, petrologie, folds, hosted.

Words that sound like sediment:
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