silty
silty
Definition
silty (sil′tē)
adjective silt′i·er, silt′i·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
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- silo
- Silly Putty
- silly
- sillimanite
- sillabub
- sill
- Silures
- Silurian
- silurid
- silva
- silvan
- Silvanus
- silver
- Silver Age
- silver bell
- silver birch
