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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Travertine :: Travertine (n.) A white concretionary form of calcium carbonate, usually hard and semicrystalline. It is deposited from the water of springs or streams holding lime in solution. Extensive deposits exist at Tivoli, near Rome..
Cash :: Cash (n.) A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box..
Pledge :: Pledge (n.) The transfer of possession of personal property from a debtor to a creditor as security for a debt or engagement; also, the contract created between the debtor and creditor by a thing being so delivered or deposited, forming a species of bailment; also, that which is so delivered or deposited; something put in pawn..
Bank :: Bank (n.) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital..
Money :: Money (n.) Any written or stamped promise, certificate, or order, as a government note, a bank note, a certificate of deposit, etc., which is payable in standard coined money and is lawfully current in lieu of it; in a comprehensive sense, any currency usually and lawfully employed in buying and selling..
Depositure :: Depositure (n.) The act of depositing; deposition.
Poll :: Poll (v. t.) To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters; as, he polled a hundred votes more than his opponent..
Ovipositor :: Ovipositor (n.) The organ with which many insects and some other animals deposit their eggs. Some ichneumon files have a long ovipositor fitted to pierce the eggs or larvae of other insects, in order to lay their own eggs within the same..
Lay :: Lay (v. t.) To deposit, as a wager; to stake; to risk..
Pawn :: Pawn (v. t.) To give or deposit in pledge, or as security for the payment of money borrowed; to put in pawn; to pledge; as, to pawn one's watch..
Oviposit :: Oviposit (v. i.) To lay or deposit eggs; -- said esp. of insects.
Melanosis :: Melanosis () The morbid deposition of black matter, often of a malignant character, causing pigmented tumors..
Pleistocene :: Pleistocene (n.) The Pleistocene epoch, or deposits..
Polarization :: Polarization (n.) An effect produced upon the plates of a voltaic battery, or the electrodes in an electrolytic cell, by the deposition upon them of the gases liberated by the action of the current. It is chiefly due to the hydrogen, and results in an increase of the resistance, and the setting up of an opposing electro-motive force, both of which tend materially to weaken the current of the battery, or that passing through the cell..
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..
Spawn :: Spawn (v. i.) To deposit eggs, as fish or frogs do..
Cast :: Cast (v. t.) To drop; to deposit; as, to cast a ballot..
Secrete :: Secrete (v. t.) To deposit in a place of hiding; to hide; to conceal; as, to secrete stolen goods; to secrete one's self..
Ossuary :: Ossuary (n.) A place where the bones of the dead are deposited; a charnel house.
Labyrinth :: Labyrinth (n.) A series of canals through which a stream of water is directed for suspending, carrying off, and depositing at different distances, the ground ore of a metal..
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