silt
Etymology
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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, German Sülze, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sultijō.
Pronunciation- IPA: /sɪlt/
silt
- (uncountable) Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.
- Synonyms: 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.
- French: silt, vase, limon
- German: Schlamm, Schlick, Schluff
- Italian: limo
- Portuguese: sedimento, silte
- Russian: ил
- Spanish: limo, sedimentos fluvial, fango
silt (silts, present participle silting; simple past and past participle silted)
- (transitive) To clog or fill with silt.
- (intransitive) To become clogged with silt.
- (ambitransitive) To flow through crevices; to percolate.
- French: envaser
- French: envaser
- Russian: заполняться илом
- Russian: проса́чиваться
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