silt
See also: šilt
English
Etymology
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 Sulze, Sülze (“brine”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sultijō (“salty water; brine”). Related to Old English sealt (“salt”).
Pronunciation
Noun
silt (countable and uncountable, plural silts)
- (uncountable) Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.
- Synonym: slitch
- (uncountable, by extension) Material with similar physical characteristics, whatever its origins or transport.
- (countable, geology) A particle from 3.9 to 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
Translations
fine earth deposited by water
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See also
Verb
silt (third-person singular simple present silts, present participle silting, simple past and past participle silted)
- (transitive) To clog or fill with silt.
- (intransitive) To become clogged with silt.
- (transitive, intransitive) To flow through crevices; to percolate.
Derived terms
Translations
to clog or fill with silt
to become clogged with silt
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to flow through crevices; to percolate
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Anagrams
Dutch
Noun
silt n (plural silten)
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Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Noun
silt (definite singular silten)
Derived terms
References
- “silt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Noun
silt (definite singular silten)
Derived terms
References
- “silt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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