Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A sedimentary material consisting of very fine particles intermediate in size between sand and clay.
- intransitive verb To become filled with silt.
- intransitive verb To fill, cover, or obstruct with silt.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A deposit of mud or fine soil from running or standing water; fine earthy sediment: as, a harbor choked up with silt.
- To choke, fill, or obstruct with silt or mud: commonly with up.
- To percolate through crevices; ooze, as water carrying fine sediment.
- To become obstructed or choked with silt or sediment: with up.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.
- transitive verb To choke, fill, or obstruct with silt or mud.
- intransitive verb To flow through crevices; to percolate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.
- noun Material with similar physical characteristics, whatever its origins or transport.
- noun geology A
particle from 3.9 to 62.5microns indiameter , following theWentworth scale - verb transitive To clog or fill with silt.
- verb intransitive To become clogged with silt.
- verb transitive To
flow throughcrevices ; topercolate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb become chocked with silt
- noun mud or clay or small rocks deposited by a river or lake
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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When we first set up shop in a dusty film studio in Giza, which is the town next to Cairo, I found Dr. Sala on the back lot, aging some of our sets with silt from the Nile.
Doug Liman: Fair Game in the Middle East Doug Liman 2010
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On Mars, NASA's robot rover Spirit is spinning its wheels on the soft shoulder of planetary exploration, up to its axles in silt millions of miles away from tense engineers who are struggling to extricate it by remote control.
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When we first set up shop in a dusty film studio in Giza, which is the town next to Cairo, I found Dr. Sala on the back lot, aging some of our sets with silt from the Nile.
Doug Liman: Fair Game in the Middle East Doug Liman 2010
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You have loam and we have river bed sand and decomposed granite and perhaps silt from the river.
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Because the depth is always just slightly over your head you never get into areas where someone has stirred up a bunch of silt from the bottom.
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But I do want to enter a modest plea for the strange and wonderful, the subversive gold dust you find in silt, online or off.
Archive 2008-05-01 L. Lee Lowe 2008
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Because the depth is always just slightly over your head you never get into areas where someone has stirred up a bunch of silt from the bottom.
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But I do want to enter a modest plea for the strange and wonderful, the subversive gold dust you find in silt, online or off.
Creative procrastination, or how to get something done for nothing L. Lee Lowe 2008
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The silt from the estuary had suddenly given way to the deep blue of the sea.
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So I can actually bury huges parts of Egypt in silt if I need to.
Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2008
sumit commented on the word silt
Is defined by the Udden-Wentworth scale as having a particle size of 3.90625–62.5 micrometres (0.00015–0.0025 inches)
February 26, 2007
bilby commented on the word silt
to love life, to love it
even when you have no stomach for it
and everything you've held dear
crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,
your throat filled with the silt of it.
- Ellen Bass, untitled poem.
September 7, 2009