silt

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɪlt/
• Rhymes: -ɪlt

Etymology

From Middle English cylte, cognate with Norwegian and Danish sylt (“salt marsh”) and Old English sealt (“salt”)

Noun

silt (countable and uncountable, plural silts)

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

Translations

fine earth deposited by water

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 泥沙 (zh)

• Dutch: silt
• Finnish: liete (fi), lieju (fi)
• French: vase (fr), limon (fr)
• German: (1) Schlamm, Schlick (de), Schluff (de)
• Italian: limo m
• Maori: kenepuru, kotao

• Polish: muł (pl), ił (pl)
• Portuguese: sedimento (pt) m, silte m
• Russian: ил (ru) (il)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: муљ m

  Roman: mulj m

• Spanish: limo (es) m, sedimentos fluviales m pl

See also

• alluvium
• varve

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To clog or fill with silt.
2. (intransitive) To become clogged with silt.
3. (transitive) To flow through crevices; to percolate.

Translations

to clog or fill with silt

to become clogged with silt

to flow through crevices; to percolate

Derived terms

• silt up

Anagrams

• list, lits, slit

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Dutch

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Noun

silt n (plural silten)

1. (geology) silt

Derived terms

• siltsteen

Anagrams

• list, stil