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Synonyms for sediment
ˈsɛd ə məntsed·i·ment
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sediment
Synonyms:
settlement, lees, dregs, grounds, refuse, dross, residuum, precipitateAntonyms:
elutriation, lixiviation, clarification, colature, edulcoration, nitration
Princeton's WordNet
sediment, depositverb
matter that has been deposited by some natural process
Synonyms:
down payment, bank deposit, alluviation, sedimentation, depositary, deposition, depository, deposit, repositorysedimentverb
deposit as a sediment
sedimentverb
settle as sediment
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List of paraphrases for "sediment":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#3816 | deposit | |
#4075 | settlement | |
#5087 | grounds | |
#6759 | repository | |
#7367 | refuse | |
#10866 | sediment | |
#12728 | deposition | |
#17755 | sediments | |
#20092 | depository | |
#24465 | lees | |
#26967 | pellet | |
#28495 | sedimentation | |
#31066 | sedimentary | |
#41439 | precipitate | |
#43789 | depositary | |
#72134 | dregs | |
#73663 | depositional | |
#77731 | dross | |
#192178 | residuum |
How to use sediment in a sentence?
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.
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.
There is a potential for land reclamation through the displacement of the sediment the rivers carry.
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.
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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- утайкаBulgarian
- usazeninaCzech
- Satz, SedimentGerman
- sedimentigi, feĉoEsperanto
- sedimentoSpanish
- sedimentoitua, sedimentti, sedimentoidaFinnish
- sédimenter, sédimentFrench
- üledékHungarian
- մրուրArmenian
- endapanIndonesian
- vatnborin jarðvegsefni, botnlag, botnfall, set, syrja, dreggjar, vindborin jarðvegsefniIcelandic
- sedimento, depositoItalian
- 堆積物Japanese
- waiparaMāori
- талогMacedonian
- sedimenterenDutch
- osadPolish
- sedimentoPortuguese
- отложение, осаждаться, осадок, осаждать, отстойRussian
- талог, talogSerbo-Croatian
- வண்டல்Tamil
- 沉澱Chinese
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