Sediment vs Dirt - What's the difference?
sediment | dirt |
A collection of small particles, particularly dirt, that precipitates from a river or other body of water.
soil or earth
A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance
Previously unknown facts, or the invented "facts", about a person; gossip
Meanness; sordidness.
* Melmoth
In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
As nouns the difference between sediment and dirt
is that sediment is a collection of small particles, particularly dirt, that precipitates from a river or other body of water while dirt is soil or earth.As verbs the difference between sediment and dirt
is that sediment is to deposit material as a sediment while dirt is to make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty.As an acronym DIRT is
Deposit Interest Retention Taxsediment
English
(wikipedia sediment)Noun
(en noun)- The Nile delta is composed of sediment that was washed down and deposited at the mouth of the river.
Hyponyms
* dregs * grounds * grout * settlingsAnagrams
* * * * ---- ==Serbo-Croatian==Noun
Declension
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English
Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(en-noun)- The reporter uncovered the dirt on the businessman by going undercover.
- honours thrown away upon dirt and infamy
