The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deposit \De*pos"it\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deposited; p. pr. & vb. n. Depositing.] [L. depositus, p. p. of deponere. See Depone, and cf. Deposit, n.]
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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.
The fear is deposited in conscience.
--Jer. Taylor. To lay up or away for safe keeping; to put up; to store; as, to deposit goods in a warehouse.
To lodge in some one's hands for safe keeping; to commit to the custody of another; to intrust; esp., to place in a bank, as a sum of money subject to order.
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To lay aside; to rid one's self of. [Obs.]
If what is written prove useful to you, to the depositing that which I can not but deem an error.
--Hammond.Note: Both this verb and the noun following were formerly written deposite.
Wiktionary
n. deposition vb. (present participle of deposit English)
Usage examples of "depositing".
As the depositing actions continue to work, other beds are formed on the top of that which we are considering, and in time the layer may be buried to the depth of many thousand feet.
To perceive the effect of these movements, we must first note that in the great rock-constructing realm of the seas organic life is constantly extracting from the water substances, such as lime, potash, soda, and a host of other substances necessary for the maintenance of high-grade organisms, depositing these materials in the growing strata.
Pliocene period, a warm sea washed the southern slopes of the Alps, depositing layers of coral and molluscs.
It surged eastward and for twelve million years dominated the foothills, cutting them away, scraping down hillocks, and depositing on the plains new layers of soil characterized by a rocky, infertile content.
Seccombe advised, but before morning a howling storm attacked, depositing seven inches of snow and piling it in drifts.
Dumire stayed in the shadows, walked up to the table where Meurice talked like a Gatling gun while Harry shifted the three thimbles, depositing the pea very obviously under one of them.
One of the handlers managed to find a shovel and used it unceremoniously to scoop up five chicks at a time, depositing them back in the wire cage.
Millions of years ago, during the Pliocene period, a warm sea washed the southern slopes of the Alps, depositing layers of coral and molluscs.
Depositing their dollars outside of the United States allows the holders of Eurodollars to escape regulation by the Federal Reserve Board.
After depositing the hairtail on the counter, he set the lightly oiled wok on the gas burner to heat and started a pot of jasmine rice.
The queen ordered the two males with the largest quantity of appropriate nutriments -- not very much unfortunately, though understandably -- to apply tongues to the cleanly severed stump, closing blood vessels against the future flow and depositing the nanomachines that would soon guide regrowth.
Eastern soils are usually too heavy to admit of depositing the seed thus deeply, but to this there are some exceptions.
In the spring, one of our guides assured us with unwonted cheer, it would overflow its banks, depositing nourishing silt on the flood-plains, hailed by the Akkadians as a life-giver.
Every sea breached clean over the wreck, washing away the salt incrustations from their bodies and depositing fresh incrustations.
Incredibly, the aliens birthed a second time not three lightshifts after depositing themselves in a silver meadow, filled with ancient, domestic sap and stalks.