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How to pronounce sediment in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms deposit
Type of matter
Has types lees, lick, alluvial deposit, settlings, salt lick, alluvial sediment, alluvion, alluvium, dregs, evaporite
Derivation sedimentary
Type Words
Type of deposit, fix, posit, situate
Derivation sedimentation
Type Words
Type of settle, settle down

Examples of sediment

sediment
Lift mushrooms out of the water, leaving behind the soaking liquid and sediment.
From the post-gazette.com
The sediment rises around her, and she disappears in a cloud of underwater dust.
From the time.com
So what were heat-loving organisms doing in the freezing sediment of the Arctic?
From the newscientist.com
She added that dam sediment could have been hauled to gravel pits 10 miles away.
From the sacbee.com
Cypress officials have denied their development is responsible for the sediment.
From the newsobserver.com
Strain the broth through a fine mesh strainer, leaving behind grit and sediment.
From the post-gazette.com
But live creatures often lurk in the soupy brews of water, seaweed and sediment.
From the sacbee.com
Other local threats include coastal development, sediment run-off and pollution.
From the guardian.co.uk
With the multibeam swath mapping system, the sediment surface below is revealed.
From the scientistatwork.blogs.nytimes.com
More examples
  • Deposit as a sediment
  • Matter that has been deposited by some natural process
  • Settle as sediment
  • (sedimentary) aqueous: produced by the action of water
  • Sediment is naturally-occurring material that is broken down by processes of weathering and erosion, and is subsequently transported by the action of fluids such as wind, water, or ice, and/or by the force of gravity acting on the particle itself.
  • Lees refers to deposits of dead yeast or residual yeast and other particles that precipitate, or are carried by the action of "fining", to the bottom of a vat of wine after fermentation and aging. The yeast deposits in beer brewing are known as trub. ...
  • Sedimentary rock is a type of rock that is formed by sedimentation of material at the Earth's surface and within bodies of water. ...
  • Sedimentation is the tendency for particles in suspension to settle out of the fluid in which they are entrained, and come to rest against a barrier. ...
  • (Sedimentation (water treatment)) Sedimentation is a physical water treatment process used to settle out suspended solids in water under the influence of gravity.