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silt
[silt]
noun
earthy matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment.
verb (used without object)
to become filled or choked up with silt.
verb (used with object)
to fill or choke up with silt.
silt
/ ɪ /
noun
a fine deposit of mud, clay, etc, esp one in a river or lake
verb
(usually foll by up) to fill or become filled with silt; choke
silt
A sedimentary material consisting of grains or particles of disintegrated rock, smaller than sand and larger than clay. The diameter of the particles ranges from 0.0039 to 0.0625 mm. Silt is often found at the bottom of bodies of water where it accumulates slowly by settling through the water.
Other 51Թ Forms
- siltation noun
- silty adjective
- desilt verb (used with object)
- ˈٲپDz noun
- ˈٲ adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of silt1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of silt1
Example Sentences
The naturalist's latest documentary Ocean With David Attenborough showed new footage of a bottom trawling net bulldozing through silt on the seafloor and scooping up species indiscriminately.
However, it could now flush silt from its reservoirs without prior warning - potentially causing damage downstream in Pakistan.
Regional Water Quality Control Board found that the charred silt does not contain wildfire-related chemicals at levels considered to be dangerous to human health, the health department concluded.
I wanted to show her what I learned: that we are never alone among the tadpoles, silt and stones, that we belong to nature too.
Municipal wells typically draw drinking water from hundreds of feet underground, often tapping into aquifers that lie beneath impermeable clay and silt layers called aquitards.
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