deposit vs lost-and-found

lost-and-found vs deposit

deposit and lost-and-found both are nouns.

deposit is a verb but lost-and-found is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
deposit	Yes	No	Yes	No
lost-and-found	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, lost-and-found is a hyponym of deposit; that is, lost-and-found is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than deposit:

deposit: a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping
lost-and-found: repository in a public building where lost articles can be kept until their owners reclaim them

Other hyponyms of deposit include archive, bank, bank building, drop, depository library, library, museum, repertory, sperm bank, depot, entrepot, storage, store, storehouse, treasury.

deposit (noun)	lost-and-found (noun)
the act of putting something somewhere	repository in a public building where lost articles can be kept until their owners reclaim them
a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping
a payment given as a guarantee that an obligation will be met
matter that has been deposited by some natural process
the phenomenon of sediment or gravel accumulating
a partial payment made at the time of purchase; the balance to be paid later
money deposited in a bank or some similar institution
money given as security for an article acquired for temporary use
the natural process of laying down a deposit of something

deposit (verb)	lost-and-found (verb)
put, fix, force, or implant
put (something somewhere) firmly
put into a bank account

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