silt

Use silt in a sentence

The Mississippi River Delta contains a large amount of silt.

noun

Silt is a material of the earth made up of particles that are somewhere in between the sizes of sand and clay, often found at the bottom of rivers and bays.
An example of silt is what one may find at the bottom of a harbor that eventually will clog the waterway.

verb

Silt is defined as to fill something up with particles of the earth that are somewhere in between sand and clay in size.
An example of to silt is to fill up the bottom of a slow moving river with sediment.

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silt

sediment suspended in stagnant water or carried by moving water, that often accumulates on the bottom of rivers, bays, etc., esp. such sediment with particles smaller than sand and larger than clay
soil composed of 80 percent or more silt and less than 12 percent clay

Origin of silt

Middle English cylte, probably from Scand, as in Norwegian and Danish dialect, dialectal sylt, salt marsh, akin to Old High German sulza, brine: for Indo-European base see salt

to fill, cover, or choke up with silt

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silt

noun

A sedimentary material consisting of very fine particles intermediate in size between sand and clay.

verb

silt·ed, silt·ing, silts

verb

intransitive

To become filled with silt: an old channel that silted up.

verb

transitive

To fill, cover, or obstruct with silt: River sediments gradually silted the harbor.

Origin of silt

Middle English sylt probably of Scandinavian origin ; see sal- in Indo-European roots.

Related Forms:

silt·a′tion
noun

silt′y
adjective

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A sedimentary material consisting of grains or particles of disintegrated rock, smaller than sand and larger than clay. The diameter of the particles ranges from 0.0039 to 0.0625 mm. Silt is often found at the bottom of bodies of water where it accumulates slowly by settling through the water.

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Noun

(countable and uncountable, plural silts)

Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.
Material with similar physical characteristics, whatever its origins or transport.
(geology) A particle from 3.9 to 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale

Verb

(third-person singular simple present silts, present participle silting, simple past and past participle silted)