Sediment is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SEDIMENT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to settle in the bottom of a liquid
• settle as sediment
• (of a liquid) deposit a sediment
• deposit (something) as a sediment
• deposit as a sediment
NOUN:
• matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid; dregs
• particulate matter that is carried by water or wind and deposited on the surface of the land or the seabed, and may in time become consolidated into rock
• matter which settles to the bottom of a liquid
• The matter which subsides to the bottom, frrom water or any other liquid; settlings; lees; dregs.
• The material of which sedimentary rocks are formed.
• matter that has been deposited by some natural process
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to settle to the bottom of a liquid

Words related to SEDIMENT

sedimented14 sedimenting15 sedimentous14 sediments12

Words that contain SEDIMENT

sediments12 sedimented14 sedimentary17 sedimenting15 sedimentous14 sedimentable17 sedimentarily19 sedimentation16 sedimentology20 sedimentations17 sedimentologic20 nonsedimentable20 sedimentologies19 sedimentologist19 sedimentologica21 sedimentological22 sedimentologists20 sedimentologically27

How to use SEDIMENT in a sentence

• Let it stand to cool, when the water and dirty sediment will settle at the bottom of the basin.
• Strain it through a fine sieve into a jug, and, when nearly cold, pour it into a well-oiled mould, omitting the sediment at the bottom.
• Only there remained, as after a flood the sediment, a final result of it all, the balance between successes and failures, a ground beneath the feet of new aspirations.
• In some of the springs a red, in others a green and yellow, sediment is produced.
• The refined liquid then flows into the reservoir, m, and the impure mass of sediment runs into the pulp-reservoir, o.
• The mountain-forming movement takes place after a certain great depth of sediment is collected.
• When this occurs at all steadily, I usually give directions to lessen the amount of food until the urine is again free from sediment.
• A small log of wood on the edge of the water I observed was covered over with a stony substance formed by sediment from the water.
• The deposits thus left by the evaporation of the sea water gradually became hidden by sediment and soil, and lost to sight.
• The latter, poured boiling from the kettle, left a sediment of ice in the bottom of the tin cup before it was drained, so great was the cold.
• When the water has become clear, pour it off with care, leaving the sediment behind, then add a fresh quantity of clean water, shake, let settle, and pour off as before.
• Rivers wear away their banks and carry them along in their waters in the form of a fine sediment.
• Several samples of the beer were produced, all of them of a different colour, and filled with sediment.
• Stir well together, allow all sediment to settle, or better, filter-press the mass.
• Alfred, your frying-pan had a sediment of eggs, meat, grease, and pure dirt on the bottom as hard as the iron itself.
• The dregs and sour sediment that reaction from exaggerated hope is so apt to stir in poor natures had no place here.
• A sufficient interval has now passed to allow all the sediment of party fanaticism to fall to the bottom.
• Shells and bones will decay and disappear when left on the bottom of the sea, where sediment is not accumulating.
• Pour off the water, being careful to get none of the sediment.
• When perfectly clear, and all the salt and sediment has settled at the bottom, the butter is done.
• The sediment is strained off and boiled down to make molasses.
• We will assure our customers that there will not be an ounce of dirt or sediment in a hundred pounds of our oil.
• Here they lie for many ages, becoming buried deeper and deeper under masses of like sediment, which are constantly being washed down upon them from above.

Similar words containing SEDIM without suffix ent

sediments12 sedimented14 sedimentary17 sedimenting15 sedimentous14 sedimentable17 sedimentarily19 sedimentation16 sedimentology20 sedimentations17 sedimentologic20 nonsedimentable20 sedimentologies19 sedimentologist19 sedimentologica21 sedimentological22 sedimentologists20 sedimentologically27

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