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Sediment (Verb)

Meaning 1

Deposit as a sediment.

Classification

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming.

Examples

  • Iron oxides deposit as a sediment at the bottom of the river.
  • Crushed coral fragments accumulate and eventually sediment on the ocean floor.
  • Pollutants from industrial waste can sediment in the soil, contaminating local groundwater.
  • Minerals from the geothermal fluid sediment as deposits in the hot spring area.
  • Solid particles in the water sediment over time, turning into distinct layers of soil.

Hypernyms

  • Posit
  • Deposit
  • Fix

Related Words

  • Sedimentation (noun)

Meaning 2

Settle as sediment.

Classification

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming.

Examples

  • Water particles suspended in the air will eventually settle as sediment at the bottom of a container over time.
  • As the storm subsided, the disturbed soil particles began to settle as sediment at the riverbed.
  • Heavy minerals tend to settle as sediment in the deeper areas of a body of water.
  • Dead marine organisms will naturally settle as sediment on the ocean floor.
  • Sand particles carried by strong winds can settle as sediment on beaches and in other landscape features.

Hypernyms

  • Settle Down
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