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silt en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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

  1. (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:
  2. (broadly, uncountable) Any material with similar physical characteristics, regardless of its origins or transport.
  3. (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

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
silts Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

silty · siltation · siltlike · siltstone

Relateds

alluvium · varve

Synonyms

slitch

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(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)

silt en · VERB

Pronunciation

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

  1. (transitive) To clog or fill with silt.
  2. (intransitive) To become clogged with silt.
    • Subject to flooding by the six small rivers coming together just west of the city, the main river below the city has long been shallow and subject to silting. The Communists have both maintained the earlier pattern of dredging the river, and have built a bypass flood canal around the city on the south side to relieve flood pressures. Though dredging can keep the river navigable for small ships, a new artificial port, Sinkang, able to take 10,000 ton ships at all times, was created at T'ang-ku. This is kept open for about two months during winter by icebreakers. 1972, “TIENTSIN (T'IEN-CHING)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 21, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1140, column 1:
    • They are city-dwellers, men whose lives pass in the shadows of buildings, whose lungs are silted with coalsmoke, and few will ever cross the sea. 2017, Sarah Moss, “London, summer 1878”, in Signs for Lost Children, New York, N.Y.: Europa Editions, →ISBN, page 16:
  3. (ambitransitive) To flow through crevices; to percolate.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
silted Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
silted Tense=Past lexicographic
silting Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
silts Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Deriveds

desilt and desilting · silt up · silting · unsilted

Translations (8)

ru заполня́ться и́лом (to become clogged with silt) · ru проса́чиваться (to flow through crevices; to percolate) · bg затлачвам се (to become clogged with silt) · sh zamuljti (to clog or fill with silt) · io slamizar (to clog or fill with silt) · bg затлачвам (to clog or fill with silt) · fr envaser (to become clogged with silt) · fr envaser (to clog or fill with silt)