Definition for Sediment:

• Matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid.

Synonyms for Sediment:

• n.

  •
  • layer,
  • skin,
  • surface,
  • blanket,
  • membrane,
  • cover,
  • paint,
  • plate.
  •
  • lees,
  • precipitation,
  • stone,
  • bed,
  • leftover,
  • rock.
  •deposit (noun)
  • de positions,
  • de-positions,
  • de-posits,
  • de posit,
  • de posits,
  • de position,
  • de-posit,
  • de-position.
  •dross (noun)
  • SCOB,
  • recrements.
  •filth (noun)
  • rottenness,
  • putridity,
  • ordure,
  • Feculence,
  • putridities,
  • sleazes,
  • sleaze,
  • smut,
  • foul matter.
  •refuse (noun)
  • scraps,
  • Rejectamenta,
  • dunghills,
  • dunghill,
  • waste matter,
  • Sweepings.
  •residue (noun)
  • debris,
  • sawdust,
  • vestige,
  • remainder,
  • Filings,
  • leftovers,
  • chaff,
  • slag,
  • precipitate,
  • afterglow,
  • afterimage,
  • remnant,
  • artifact,
  • grounds,
  • scum.
  •rock (noun)
  • shale.
  •settlings (noun)
  • powder,
  • sand,
  • solids,
  • gritty matter,
  • grit.
  •sludge (noun)
  • goop,
  • GLOP,
  • glops,
  • goops.
  •solid residue from liquid solution (noun)
  • residuum,
  • settling,
  • waste,
  • gook,
  • gunk.
  •soot (noun)
  • Fuliginosity.
  •trash (noun)
  • ex cess,
  • ex-cess,
  • odds ends,
  • ex-cesses.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • bedrock,
  • outcrop,
  • stratum,
  • aquifer,
  • dreg,
  • silt.
  •
  • upthrust,
  • steppingstone.
  •carbon
  • soot.

Paraphrases for Sediment:

• Reverse Entailment

  • Proper noun, singular
    sedimentation, sedimentary.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    sedimentation.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    depositional.
  • Proper noun, singular
    cubes.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    silt, deposit, siltation, pellet, sludge.
  • Verb, past tense
    Were.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    sedimentary.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    deposition, sedimentary.

Antonyms for Sediment:

• n.

  • solid residue from liquid solution
    whole, possessions.

Sediment Sentence Examples:

• When such fine vegetable sediment is mixed, as is often the case, with clay, it becomes similar to the bituminous limestone and calcareo - bituminous shales of the coal - measures.

• It was so sparkling, its bed so free from sediment or impurities of any kind, that it had a new look, as if it had just come from the hand of its Creator.

Homophones for Sediment:

• stannite, stomate, stent, sextant, sudden death, section hand, steam heat, satinwood, steamed, stained, stoned, sixteenth, sodium iodide, Satinette, staminate, stone-dead, statement, stunted, sectioned, stunt, sweetmeat, stint, squatinidae, steam-heat, stunned, standee, shittimwood, stemmed, stew meat, St. Matthew, student, statant, Satinet, sodomite, stand out, sweetened, south wind, sustainment, stand, sustained.

Hypernym for Sediment:

• n.

  • object
    alluvion, salt lick, alluvium, evaporite, lick, alluvial sediment, settlings, lees, alluvial deposit, dregs.

Hyponym for Sediment:

• n.

  • object
    matter.

• v.

  • motion
    posit, settle down, deposit, fix, settle, situate.