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silty Definition

silty (sil)

adjective silti·er, silti·est

of, like, or full of silt

silty Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • loam: The principle crop on his 450 acres of mainly silty, heavy loam is 320 acres of winter wheat.
  • backfill: This feature measured up to 0.16m in width x 0.21m in depth with a brown silty clay backfill.
  • clay: These flat stones were recorded within a matrix of very mixed brown silty clay.
  • sand: First, a partially burnt reddish silty sand containing charcoal fragments appears to have been thrown into the base of the pit.
  • soil: The sandstone plateau around the hills gives rise to red, silty, loam soils over silty clays.
  • layer: The silty layer was removed revealing another demolition layer.

Modifying Another Word

  • very: She still lies exactly as she sank, upright and mainly intact, but, like all the harbor wrecks, very silty.
  • slightly: This material is course slightly silty sand, containing a high proportion of shells.
  • quite: The down side is that the area around Lyme Bay is quite silty.
  • fairly: We did a long dive, but there was nothing much to see, and the water was fairly silty.
  • too: The clay samples form the other four locations can be regarded as too silty.

Browse dictionary entries near silty

  1. silt
  2. siloxane
  3. Silone
  4. Siloam
  5. silo
  6. Silly Putty
  7. silly
  8. sillimanite
  9. sillabub
  10. sill
  1. Silures
  2. Silurian
  3. silurid
  4. silva
  5. silvan
  6. Silvanus
  7. silver
  8. Silver Age
  9. silver bell
  10. silver birch