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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
alluvion, alluvium, ash, bottoms, cinder, clinker, debris, deposit, deposition, deposits, detritus, diluvium, draff, dregs, drift, dross, ember, feces, froth, grounds, lees, loess, moraine, offscum, precipitate, precipitation, remains, residue, residuum, scoria, scree, scum, sedimentate, settlings, silt, sinter, slag, smut, soot, sublimate
Dictionary Results for sediment:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
sediment
    n 1: matter that has been deposited by some natural process
         [syn: sediment, deposit]
    v 1: deposit as a sediment
    2: settle as sediment
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Sediment \Sed"i*ment\, n. [F. s['e]diment, L. sedimentum a
   settling, fr. sedere to sit, to settle. See Sit.]
   1. The matter which subsides to the bottom, from water or any
      other liquid; settlings; lees; dregs.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. (Geol.) The material of which sedimentary rocks are
      formed.
      [1913 Webster]
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