1A sum of money paid into a bank or building society account.

2A sum payable as a first instalment on the purchase of something or as a pledge for a contract, the balance being payable later.

我们已经存够了钱来支付买房子的定金。

1. 2.1 A returnable sum payable on the hire or rental of something, to cover possible loss or damage.
   押金
   a refundable €100 deposit is payable on arrival at the villa

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Some hotels ask you to pay a damage deposit when you check-in in case something like this happens.
   • Landlords are not allowed to ask for first and last months' rent or a damage deposit.
   • The beautiful thing is that when they decide to move on, they can keep the damage deposit.
   • The damage deposit covered their final month's rent but their lease was obviously dead.
   • Nevertheless, Chang has promised that all security deposits will be returned as soon as possible after they had been claimed.
   • The most a landlord can ask for in terms of a damage deposit is the last month's rent, payable before the tenant occupies a unit.
   • Force convicted slumlords to give damage deposits to the government.
   • So sure was I of Chris coming through with the loan approval that I'd begun patching up my apartment so I could get my damage deposit back when I moved out.
   • To weather these delays, framers not only should have enough cash in reserve, but also should require an up-front deposit to cover initial costs.
   • Sometimes the loans were for a few hundred bucks, money to buy an old car to drive to work in or to put down as a security deposit on an apartment.
   • The agreement should also lay down rules for the eventual return of any deposit against damages that you ask for, and you should inform any mortgage lender - although this is usually a formality.
   • I then carefully drove it home and took it to the lawyers, where I handed it over as the security deposit on my house.
   • As a landlord you can refuse to return their deposit if they have caused damage beyond normal wear and tear.
   • They can function in addition to or as a replacement for a standard pet deposit which generally only covers minor damage.
   • He is still finding it hard to get a damage deposit together and notes that even if he had the money, many landlords don't want to rent from someone whose current address is a shelter.
   • He mumbles an unheard one-liner about losing his damage deposit as he wrenches the door of the moving car open and dives inelegantly inside.
   • Most pet deposits simply don't come close to covering the damage caused by pets.
2. 2.2 (in the UK) a sum of money lodged by an election candidate and forfeited if they fail to receive a certain proportion of the votes.
   （英国）竞选押金（指由议会选举候选人支付的一笔钱款，如候选人不能得到一定比例的选票，此款不予归还）
   he lost his deposit but was credited with contributing to the Conservatives' defeat

   Example sentencesExamples

   • A candidate shall lose his deposit if he has received less than six percent of the number of valid ballots in the election and has failed to win a seat in the subsequent election run-off.
   • At the general election of 1950, it put up 100 candidates, lost both its seats, and forfeited 97 deposits.
   • He attracted only 1,392 votes and lost his deposit.
   • They fought 496 seats and lost their deposit in 451.
   • Even if you turn up and vote for a man dressed as a banana you'll at least have the satisfaction of knowing when the announcements are made, someone who just wanted to have a bit of fun hasn't lost their deposit.

3A layer or mass of accumulated matter.

油漆涂层表面沉积的盐分。

1. 3.1 A natural underground layer of rock, coal, or other material.
   （沙、岩石、煤等的）天然沉积层
   a great quantity of pottery was found in this deposit

   with modifier areas of mineral deposits

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Seventeen miles due west is the White Sands National Monument, 300 square miles of white gypsum dunes, the largest gypsum deposit in the world.
   • In addition to the dominant Precambrian and Paleozoic rocks, there are small deposits of Mesozoic rocks on the island as well.
   • Mining activities for these mineral deposits can be traced back two thousand years.
   • More than a moving vehicle to carry away natural deposits of rock and shale, the river takes with it whatever it is given.
   • Mongolia, population 2.3 million, lives on mostly undeveloped land with so much mineral wealth that coal deposits sit on the desert surface.
   • Mineral deposits include oil and natural gas, gold, uranium, bauxite, nickel, and cobalt.
   • The first step in the mining is removing the overburden - the topsoil, muskeg, sand, clay and gravel - that covers the deposits.
   • Asbestos is a fibrous mineral mined from rock deposits.
   • This issue may become important in years to come as mineral deposits and other natural resources are discovered, as may the impact of the increasing number of tourists visiting the continent.
   • Rising magmas are the essential component for building the mineral deposits of the Andes.
   • All of the blasting and tunneling that went on at the site riddled the mountain with fractures, exposing enormous areas of rock and mineral deposits to oxygen and water.
   • Lemmon says the rock samples and mineral deposits tend to point to a large area of water that once existed on Mars, such as a lake or even a sea.
   • Because much of the evidence is literally microscopic, it is possible, with good deposits like these at Harnham, to learn a great deal about an ancient environment from even very small excavations.
   • The removal of huge amounts of material from the underground deposit causes massive subsidence at the surface.
   • In the Lagan Valley the boulder clay is often covered by later glacial deposits.
   • Most parts of the dry sea floor are covered with deposits of billions of tonnes of toxic salts, brought there over the decades with the water seeping from the fields into the rivers.
   • In these deposits, it is possible to observe changes over many years which are recorded, providing information about past environments.
   • The rich mineral deposits surrounding Iron Town generate plenty of wealth to go around.
   • What was at stake, and what prompted the woman's presentation, was pressure from gas interests to further develop natural gas deposits in the area.
   • Chinese companies are interested in Mongolia's largely unexplored coal deposits and other mineral reserves.

   Synonyms

   seam, vein, lode, layer, stratum, bed, accumulation

4mass noun The action of placing something in a specified place.

1with object and usually with adverbial of place Put or set down (something or someone) in a specific place.

他把一堆课本随便放在了厨房餐桌上。

1. 1.1 (of water, the wind, or other natural agency) lay down (matter) gradually as a layer or covering.
   （水、风或其他自然力）使（物质）沉积
   beds where salt is deposited by the tide

   因潮汐的作用而有盐分沉积的浅海海床。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Geologists suggested the layers may have been formed either by ash from a volcano or from sediments deposited by wind or liquid water.
   • Vein gold is deposited by hot subterranean water known as a hydrothermal fluid.
   • Sand dunes develop ridges when the wind deposits a chance accumulation of sand grains.
   • The overlying limestones and tuffs were deposited in shallow water as indicated by the rich shelly fauna.
   • At the time of its abrupt opening, layers of unconsolidated lime mud and ash were already deposited on the dolomite surface.
   • Sand was deposited by wind or water, and briefly wetted by liquid water that evaporated, forming the sulfate cement.
   • From this data, scientists hope to determine whether some of the layers were deposited by wind, rather than by water.
   • Carbonaceous sediments were deposited over a wide range of environments.
   • They found that the materials in all three divisions were wet both before and after the layers were deposited by either wind or water.
   • Sediments deposited by the water may also have been brought to the surface by the meteorite impacts that gave rise to the many craters visible today.
   • Silver was deposited near the end of the copper deposition, and most specimens show a combination of silver on copper.
   • Fossils, he claimed, were the remains of once-living organisms, turned to stone inside layers of silt or sand deposited by water.
   • If it turns out that passing comets have deposited water ice on the moon, hydrogen and oxygen might be even more easily obtained, he added.
   • Flowing water may have deposited sand and silt in the bottoms of lakebeds or oceans.
   • This is testament to the inert nature of gold; the metal is commonly deposited hydrothermally as grains, wires, and crystals in quartz veins.
   • A few tools are found still associated with this gravel which has been clearly deposited by water.
   • A layer of oxygen blocking material is deposited on the layer of metal.
   • This indicates that the sand was deposited by flowing water.
   • Usually these were positioned a few inches above the mound floor, apparently after a layer of soil was deposited.
   • That meteorite contains carbonates and other minerals that would have been deposited from liquid water flowing through it nearly 4 billion years ago.

   Synonyms

   leave behind, leave, set down, let settle, precipitate, dump

   wash up, cast up
2. 1.2 Lay (an egg)
   下（蛋）
   the female deposits a line of eggs

   雌鸟下了一排蛋。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • In many species, males guard nest sites in which several females can deposit their eggs.
   • Evidence for this comes from the fact that eggs at different stages of development can be found in their nests, suggesting that multiple females deposited eggs in the nest.
   • Given the ephemeral nature of the pools, females need to deposit eggs early and quickly.
   • After this process is complete a male bull trout (usually only one) will fertilize eggs deposited by the female.
   • Females deposited their eggs in clutches with the eggs arranged in rows, which meant that the order of fertilization by the different sires could be distinguished.
   • Females of some species will deposit eggs in other female's nests.
   • This can be understood by considering a scenario in which males can spawn for only 3 days (the same period that females spend depositing eggs).
   • A female ready to deposit her eggs seeks out a bloodsucking insect, generally a fly or mosquito.
   • Females make slits in the branches and deposit their eggs inside.
   • It ends with the female depositing her eggs in the male's pouch.
   • The males become pregnant after the females deposit their eggs onto them.
   • When that happens, the usurper proceeds systematically to execute the now defenseless larvae before it deposits its own eggs in the gall.
   • Several females may deposit eggs in the same nest and a female may deposit eggs in several different nests.
   • Eggs are deposited by the female one at a time and fertilized simultaneously by the male, with clutch sizes sometimes reaching 500 eggs.
   • The females of many species deposit their eggs on just the few plant species that serve as food sources for the emerging larvae.
   • Most salamanders deposit aquatic eggs, which hatch into aquatic larvae.
   • Clutches of 8-15 eggs are deposited in nests that the females dig, and the hatchlings emerge between a year and 16 months later.
   • Females leave the spawning area a few days after depositing their eggs.
   • The mother later returns, repeatedly, to each of her tadpoles, which have reduced beaks and denticles, and deposits unfertilized eggs for them to eat.
   • Once hatched, females return to their hatching beach every few years to deposit eggs.

2with object Place (something) somewhere for safekeeping.

1. 2.1 Pay (a sum of money) into a bank or building society account.
   存款
   the money had been deposited in a Swiss bank account

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The amount of money deposited in the saving accounts of each bank can be no more than $100 million yuan.
   • All too often, dividend cheques are just deposited into our bank accounts and spent.
   • This may prevent the victim of a fraud seeking a proprietary remedy against a bank where money has been deposited into a bank account.
   • Early on, you may have to settle for a secured credit card, which is a card backed by money you deposit in a savings account.
   • The simplest and safest way is to put cash into an interest-bearing bank account, where you are paid by the bank for depositing your money.
   • The money would be deposited in a UN-controlled bank account used to buy food.
   • The only sign of him is the money that's deposited into my bank account every month.
   • Money laundering is charged because the lobster purchase and sale required money to be deposited in a bank.
   • Conventional wisdom has it that as equities perform better than savings in the long term, the money should not be deposited at a bank or building society but invested in stocks and shares.
   • I always arrange for my regular tax refund to be deposited in my bank account.
   • Eurocurrency is the term given to any currency which is deposited in a bank account outside its country of origin.
   • Would you also like to go to the bank and deposit regular sums of money?
   • As far as he is concerned, they gave him the money to be deposited into his trading account so that he could trade with it.
   • I once had a large sum of money deposited into my bank account by mistake.
   • If you file electronically and arrange for your refund to be deposited into your bank account, you'll get your money in less than two weeks, assuming the return is accurate.
   • He says an emergency meeting of all eight hospitals has been planned for Monday if money is not deposited in their bank accounts today.
   • For example, it says that your money must be deposited into a custodial account, which walls it off in case your employer goes bankrupt or is sold.
   • The money collected was deposited in the State Account.
   • When he started dating a girl he was quite seriously about, Mum opened a bank account, weekly deposited money into and gave him an access card so he could impress his girl.
   • Prosecutors believe that a large portion of the missing funds was deposited in local bank accounts that have yet to be traced.

   Synonyms

   lodge, bank, house, store, stow, put away, hoard, lay in

   entrust, consign, commit

   informal stash, squirrel away, salt away, put aside for a rainy day
2. 2.2 Pay (a sum) as a first instalment or as a pledge for a contract.
   付（一定金额）作为首期分期付款（或定金、押金）
   I had to deposit 10% of the price of the house

   我必须先付房价的10%作为定金。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • In fact, we allow them to deposit NT $20,000 initially and pay the remainder in installments.
   • Earlier, the students were compelled to pay a fee of Rs 5,000 apart from Rs 23,000 deposited as the first installment for getting the institute affiliated.