Sediment vs Lees - What's the difference?
sediment | lees |
A collection of small particles, particularly dirt, that precipitates from a river or other body of water.
(plural only) The sediment that settles during fermentation of beverages, consisting of dead yeast and precipitated parts of the fruit.
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(sailing) English plurals
As nouns the difference between sediment and lees
is that sediment is a collection of small particles, particularly dirt, that precipitates from a river or other body of water while lees is (plural only) the sediment that settles during fermentation of beverages, consisting of dead yeast and precipitated parts of the fruit or lees can be (sailing).As a verb sediment
is to deposit material as a sediment.sediment
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.