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Sediment vs Clough - What's the difference?

sediment | clough |

As a noun sediment

is sediment.

As a proper noun clough is

.

sediment

English

(wikipedia sediment)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To deposit material as a sediment.
  • To be deposited as a sediment.

    • Anagrams

    * * * * ---- ==Serbo-Croatian==

    Noun

    • Declension

    {{sh-decl-noun , sedìment, sedimenti , sedimenta, sedimen?ta / sedim?nt? , sedimentu, sedimentima , sediment, sedimente , sedimente, sedimenti , sedimentu, sedimentima , sedimentom, sedimentima }}

    clough

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), (m), (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * (Scotland)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Northern England, US) A narrow valley; a cleft in a hillside; a ravine, glen, or gorge.
    • (Nares)
  • A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.
    • (Knight)
  • A cliff; a rocky precipice.
  • (label) The cleft or fork of a tree; crotch.
  • (label) A wood; weald.

    • Etymology 2

    Alternative forms

    * cloff

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Formerly an allowance of two pounds in every three hundredweight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight.

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