Definition of deposit

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Deposit (n.) To lay down; to place; to put; to let fall or throw down (as sediment); as, a crocodile deposits her eggs in the sand; the waters deposited a rich alluvium..

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Depository :: Depository (n.) One with whom something is deposited; a depositary.
Lodgment :: Lodgment (v.) An accumulation or collection of something deposited in a place or remaining at rest.
Tomb :: Tomb (n.) A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave; a sepulcher.
Corban :: Corban (n.) An alms basket; a vessel to receive gifts of charity; a treasury of the church, where offerings are deposited..
Stratigraphic :: Stratify (v. t.) To form or deposit in strata, or layers, as substances in the earth; to arrange in strata..
Intervale :: Intervale (n.) A tract of low ground between hills, or along the banks of a stream, usually alluvial land, enriched by the overflowings of the river, or by fertilizing deposits of earth from the adjacent hills. Cf. Bottom, n., 7..
Horizon :: Horizon (n.) The epoch or time during which a deposit was made.
Burial :: Burial (n.) The act of burying; depositing a dead body in the earth, in a tomb or vault, or in the water, usually with attendant ceremonies; sepulture; interment..
Ossuary :: Ossuary (n.) A place where the bones of the dead are deposited; a charnel house.
Galvanoplastic :: Galvanoplastic (a.) Of or pertaining to the art or process of electrotyping; employing, or produced by, the process of electolytic deposition; as, a galvano-plastic copy of a medal or the like..
Stock :: Stock (n.) An irregular metalliferous mass filling a large cavity in a rock formation, as a stock of lead ore deposited in limestone..
Amyloid :: Amyloid (n.) The substance deposited in the organs in amyloid degeneration.
Oviposition :: Oviposition (n.) The depositing of eggs, esp. by insects..
Trust :: Trust (n.) That which is committed or intrusted to one; something received in confidence; charge; deposit.
Draw :: Draw (v. i.) To make a draft or written demand for payment of money deposited or due; -- usually with on or upon.
Catery :: Catery (n.) The place where provisions are deposited.
Electro-tint :: Electro-tint (n.) A style of engraving in relief by means of voltaic electricity. A picture is drawn on a metallic plate with some material which resists the fluids of a battery; so that, in electro-typing, the parts not covered by the varnish, etc., receive a deposition of metal, and produce the required copy in intaglio. A cast of this is then the plate for printing..
Store :: Store (v. t.) A place of deposit for goods, esp. for large quantities; a storehouse; a warehouse; a magazine..
Ampere :: Ampere (n.) The unit of electric current; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by U. S. Statute as, one tenth of the unit of current of the C. G. S. system of electro-magnetic units, or the practical equivalent of the unvarying current which, when passed through a standard solution of nitrate of silver in water, deposits silver at the rate of 0.001118 grams per second. Called also the international ampere..
Metamorphic :: Metamorphic (a.) Pertaining to, produced by, or exhibiting, certain changes which minerals or rocks may have undergone since their original deposition; -- especially applied to the recrystallization which sedimentary rocks have undergone through the influence of heat and pressure, after which they are called metamorphic rocks..
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