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silt

noun
/sɪlt/

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”).

  1. derived from *sultijō✻
  2. derived from silen
  3. inherited from silte

Definitions

  1. 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, ...

  2. Any material with similar physical characteristics, regardless of its origins or…

    Any material with similar physical characteristics, regardless of its origins or transport.

  3. 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.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. To clog or fill with silt.

    2. To become clogged with silt.

      • 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.

    3. To flow through crevices

      To flow through crevices; to percolate.

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Derived

siltation, siltlike, siltstone, silty, desilt and desilting, silting, silt up, unsilted

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for silt. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA