different between sediment vs plonge

English

Etymology

From Middle French sédiment, from Latin sedimentum < sede?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?d.?.m?nt/
• Rhymes: -?d?m?nt

Noun

sediment (countable and uncountable, plural sediments)

1. A collection of small particles, particularly dirt, that precipitates from a river or other body of water.

   The Nile delta is composed of sediment that was washed down and deposited at the mouth of the river.

Hyponyms

• dregs
• grounds
• grout
• settlings

Related terms

• sedimentary
• sedimentation
• sedimentaceous
• sedimentitious
• sedimentoclastic

Translations

Verb

sediment (third-person singular simple present sediments, present participle sedimenting, simple past and past participle sedimented)

1. (transitive) To deposit material as a sediment.
2. (intransitive) To be deposited as a sediment.

Translations

Anagrams

• Edmisten, end items, end times, endtimes, enmisted, midteens, set mined, setmined, tidesmen

Czech

Noun

sediment m

1. sediment

Synonyms

• usazenina

Related terms

• See sese

Further reading

• sediment in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• sediment in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French sédiment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?se?.di?m?nt/
• Hyphenation: se?di?ment
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

sediment n (plural sedimenten)

1. sediment

Derived terms

• sedimentaanvoer
• sedimentafzetting
• sedimentgesteente

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin sedimentum

Noun

sediment n (definite singular sedimentet, indefinite plural sediment or sedimenter, definite plural sedimenta or sedimentene)

1. sediment

Related terms

• sedimentær

References

• “sediment” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin sedimentum

Noun

sediment n (definite singular sedimentet, indefinite plural sediment, definite plural sedimenta)

1. sediment

Related terms

• sedimentær

References

• “sediment” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

From French sediment, from Latin sedimentum.

Noun

sediment n (plural sedimente)

1. sediment

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sed?ment/
• Hyphenation: se?di?ment

Noun

sedìment m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. sediment

Declension

English

Etymology

See plunge.

Verb

plonge (third-person singular simple present plonges, present participle plonging, simple past and past participle plonged)

1. (transitive) To cleanse, as open drains which are entered by the tide, by stirring up the sediment when the tide ebbs.

Anagrams

• OpenGL

French

Noun

plonge f (plural plonges)

1. (France, informal) the work of washing dishes

Derived terms

• faire la plonge

Verb

plonge

1. first-person singular present indicative of plonger
2. third-person singular present indicative of plonger
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of plonger
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of plonger
5. second-person singular imperative of plonger

Further reading

• “plonge” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).