sediment vs posit

sediment and posit both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sediment	Yes	No	Yes	No
posit	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, posit is a hypernym of sediment; that is, posit is a word with a broader meaning than sediment:

Other hypernyms of sediment include deposit, fix, situate.

sediment (noun)	posit (noun)
matter that has been deposited by some natural process	(logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning

sediment (verb)	posit (verb)
settle as sediment	take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom
deposit as a sediment	put before
	put (something somewhere) firmly