Meaning

3 senses
  1. (uncountable)Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.

    Schlamm, Schlick, Schluff

    илil

    мулmul, наму́лnamúl, ілil

    mud or clay or small rocks deposited by a river or lake

  2. (broadly, uncountable)Any material with similar physical characteristics, regardless of its origins or transport.

  3. (countable)A particle from 3.9 to 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.

Examples

4 sentences
  1. The river was cloudy with silt.

    ruРека была мутной от ила. — Karok

  2. The great river was dark with silt.

  3. Silt has a finer particle size than sand, but not as fine as clay.

  4. The soil should be full of loam, a mixture of sand, silt, clay and organic material.

Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
fine earth deposited by water:
Русский
By meaning 1
fine earth deposited by water:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
fine earth deposited by water:

Forms

plural: silts
Singularsilt
Pluralsilts

regular

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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