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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.
Derived Forms
- ˈٲپDz, noun
- ˈٲ, adjective
Other Word Forms
- ·ٲtDz noun
- y adjective
- · verb (used with object)
Word History and Origins
Origin of silt1
Word History and Origins
Origin of silt1
Example Sentences
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.
Prior to the 11th Century, the Cholas had been one among the many squabbling powers that dotted the Kaveri floodplain, the great body of silt that flows through India's present-day state of Tamil Nadu.
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