Crossword-Solution: SEDIMENT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sediment | n. | The matter which subsides to the bottom, frrom water or any other liquid; settlings; lees; dregs. |
| Sediment | n. | The material of which sedimentary rocks are formed. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SEDIMENT | anagram | ENDTIMES, ENMISTED, TIDESMEN |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with SEDIMENT (5)
Presently they came to a place where a little stream of water, trickling over a ledge and carrying a limestone sediment with it, had, in the slow-dragging ages, formed a laced and ruffled Niagara in gleaming and imperishable stone.
Don't see color yet, do you?” The quartz sediment dwindled by degrees as McTeague spooned it steadily.
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.
How clear and bright the stream of the mind flows in those late hours, after all the sediment and floating trash of the day has drained off! Sometimes I seem to coast the very shore of Beauty or Truth, and hear the surf breaking on those shining sands.
You are well up on the bar, now; there is a bar under every point, because the water that comes down around it forms an eddy and allows the sediment to sink.
Quotes with SEDIMENT (3)
A soul that knows it is loved but does not itself love betrays its sediment: what is at bottom comes up."―Epigrams and Interludes, Section 79
He had in those days imagined himself capable of extraordinary heroisms and endurances which would make the girl he loved forget the awkward hands and the spotty chin of adolescence. Everything had seemed possible. One could laugh at daydreams, but so long as you had the capacity to daydream there was a chance that you might develop some of the qualities of which you dreamed. It was like the religious discipline: words however emptily repeated can in time form a habit, a kind…
Every word spoken in the past accumulated forms and colors in the self. What flows through the veins besides blood is the distillation of every act committed, the sediment of all the visions, wishes, dreams and experiences. All the past emotions converge to tint the skin and flavor the lips, to regulate the pulse and produce crystals in the eyes.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 32 times in crossword archives (1952–2022).