silt en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /sɪlt/
- (UK) audio
Etymology
PIE word *sḗh₂l From Middle English silte, cilte, cylte, perhaps from Middle English silen ("to filter; strain"; equivalent to sile + -t), or cognate with Norwegian and Danish sylt (“salt marsh”), Middle Low German sulte (“salt-marsh”), German Sülze (“meat in aspic”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sultijō (“salty water; brine”). Related to Old English sealt (“salt”).
Meanings
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(uncountable) Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.
A large tube is then followed over several silt banks to surface after a total dive of 200 m in a large passage containing an active streamway – The San Agustin Way. 5 m before the passage surfaces another line junction is passed, ...
2006, Duncan Price, Welsh Sump Index, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 41:
- (broadly, uncountable) Any material with similar physical characteristics, regardless of its origins or transport.
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(countable) A particle from 3.9 to 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
The gravels, initially deposited by surf-zone processes during the Pleistocene low stands in this area were drowned by quartzose sands, and then the prodeltaic silts and clays deposited by the seaward prograding-feather edge of the Holocene Orange Delta were subsequently integrated into the delta-front by bioturbation.
2015 December 1, “Infaunal Benthic Communities from the Inner Shelf off Southwestern Africa Are Characterised by Generalist Species”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:Above the lower headcut, phreatophytic mesquite and little leaf sumac hug the banks, drawing pendulate water from the silts remaining from former marsh deposits and sending long taproots into channel stores.
2007, Susan L. Woodward, “Modern Vegetation of the Murray Springs Area and the Upper San Pedro Valley”, in Caleb Vance Haynes, Bruce B. Huckell, editor, Murray Springs, page 58:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| silts | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
silty · siltation · siltlike · siltstone
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Translations (77)
fi siltti (fine earth deposited by water) · bg ти́ня (fine earth deposited by water) · uk мул (fine earth deposited by water) · fr limon (fine earth deposited by water) · sh mulj (fine earth deposited by water) · ga siolta (fine earth deposited by water) · ja シルト (fine earth deposited by water) · be іл (fine earth deposited by water) · be мул (fine earth deposited by water) · sh муљ (fine earth deposited by water) · ka შლამი (fine earth deposited by water) · es sedimentos fluviales (fine earth deposited by water) · hu iszap (fine earth deposited by water) · cs nános (fine earth deposited by water) · nn silt (fine earth deposited by water) · pl ił (fine earth deposited by water) · es cieno (fine earth deposited by water) · be глей (fine earth deposited by water) · cs naplavenina (fine earth deposited by water) · nl silt (fine earth deposited by water) · mi parahua (fine earth deposited by water) · pam banlik (fine earth deposited by water) · id debu (fine earth deposited by water) · cy llifwaddod (fine earth deposited by water) · ru ил (fine earth deposited by water) · mi kenepuru (fine earth deposited by water) · fr vase (fine earth deposited by water) · sk nános (fine earth deposited by water) · nb silt (fine earth deposited by water) · de Schlamm (fine earth deposited by water) · ca llim (fine earth deposited by water) · sl mulj (fine earth deposited by water) · it limo (fine earth deposited by water) · io slamo (fine earth deposited by water) · mi kotao (fine earth deposited by water) · pl muł (fine earth deposited by water) · id silt (fine earth deposited by water) · cy llaid (fine earth deposited by water) · tl labon (fine earth deposited by water) · he טִין (fine earth deposited by water) · cy silt (fine earth deposited by water) · de Schlick (fine earth deposited by water) · ja 沈泥 (fine earth deposited by water) · hu kőzetliszt (fine earth deposited by water) · ar غَرِين (fine earth deposited by water) · da silt (fine earth deposited by water) · cs bahno (fine earth deposited by water) · mi parakiwai (fine earth deposited by water) · lt dumblas (fine earth deposited by water) · sk silt (fine earth deposited by water) · sv silt (fine earth deposited by water) · lv dūņas (fine earth deposited by water) · fi liete (fine earth deposited by water) · fi lieju (fine earth deposited by water) · de Schluff (fine earth deposited by water) · es fango (fine earth deposited by water) · hy տիղմ (fine earth deposited by water) · ko 실트 (fine earth deposited by water) · mt ħama (fine earth deposited by water) · mi kotae (fine earth deposited by water) · sq lym (fine earth deposited by water) · pt sedimento (fine earth deposited by water) · uk іл (fine earth deposited by water) · hu aleurit (fine earth deposited by water) · es limo (fine earth deposited by water) · az lil (fine earth deposited by water) · uk наму́л (fine earth deposited by water) · cmn 泥沙 (fine earth deposited by water) · hi गाद (fine earth deposited by water) · af slik (fine earth deposited by water) · pt silte (fine earth deposited by water) · he טִיט (fine earth deposited by water) · uk глей (fine earth deposited by water) · gl sedimento (fine earth deposited by water) · fr silt (fine earth deposited by water) · hu üledék (fine earth deposited by water) · ca llaquim (fine earth deposited by water)