silt
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silt
- /sɪlt/
Rhymes with -ɪlt
Where it comes from
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”).
noun silts
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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, ...
Similar: slitch
- Any material with similar physical characteristics, regardless of its origins or transport.
- A particle from 3.9 to 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale. 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.
verb silts · silting · silted
- To clog or fill with silt.
- 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 sou
- To flow through crevices; to percolate.
Translations
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noun fine earth deposited by water
| Español | limo, sedimentos fluviales, fango, cieno |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 실트 silteu |
| 日本語 | シルト shiruto, 沈泥 chindei |
| 中文 | 泥沙 níshā |
| हिन्दी | गाद gād |
| Português | sedimento, silte |
| Français | silt, vase, limon |
| Deutsch | Schlamm, Schlick, Schluff |
| Italiano | limo |
| Русский | ил il |
| العربية | غَرِين ḡarīn |
| עברית | טִיט tit, טִין tin |
verb to clog or fill with silt
| Français | envaser |
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verb to become clogged with silt
| Français | envaser |
|---|---|
| Русский | заполня́ться и́лом zapolnjátʹsja ílom |
verb to flow through crevices; to percolate
| Русский | проса́чиваться prosáčivatʹsja |
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Talk about this word "silt." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/silt. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. silt. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/silt "silt." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/silt.Cite this
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title = {silt},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/silt},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
