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Synonyms for sediment
ˈsɛd ə məntsed·i·ment

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  1. sediment

    Synonyms:
    settlement, lees, dregs, grounds, refuse, dross, residuum, precipitate

    Antonyms:
    elutriation, lixiviation, clarification, colature, edulcoration, nitration

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  1. sediment, depositverb

    matter that has been deposited by some natural process

    Synonyms:
    down payment, bank deposit, alluviation, sedimentation, depositary, deposition, depository, deposit, repository

  2. sedimentverb

    deposit as a sediment

  3. sedimentverb

    settle as sediment

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  1. sedimentnoun

    Synonyms:
    dregs, lees, settlings, grounds, precipitate, DUNDER

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  1. sedimentnoun

    Synonyms:
    precipitate, dregs, lees, settlings, grounds, feculence

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  1. List of paraphrases for "sediment":

    sediments, sedimentary, sedimentation, pellet, depositional

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How to use sediment in a sentence?

  1. David Shankman:

    Everything in the lake has been dramatically altered by landscape change, dams and sand mining, the amount of water in the lake, in the Yangtze River, the sediment going in and going out - everything is affected by human activity.

  2. Milo Barham:

    The melting of ice sheets after Snowball Earth caused a dramatic rise in sea level, ultimately flooding the continents, driving a remarkable retreat of shorelines and the development of clearer ocean water, researchers have long been aware that the timing of Snowball Earth and the development of more complex life seem to have coincided, but no one has really thought about how the oceans being starved of sediment might have helped ancient organisms thrive in the oceans.

  3. Malik Khan:

    There is a potential for land reclamation through the displacement of the sediment the rivers carry.

  4. Takeshi Tsuji:

    Zones like the one we investigated are not uncommon along rifts, so I expect that similar reservoirs may exist elsewhere in the Okinawa Trough as well as other sediment-covered continental back-arc basins around the world.

  5. Murray Ford:

    We have found Marshall Islands are resilient in the face of rising seas and that sediment supply to some atolls is out-pacing sea level rise, what we don't know is how that will play out in coming decades.


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