silt
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3.7
- noun
- /sɪlt/
:
limo
- The rest of the soil is made up of sand, silt, and clay.
- silt and sand
- silt and clay
- layer of silt
Well, your soil is not just sand, silt and clay.
- Well, your soil is not just sand, silt and clay.
- It is a combination of both sand, silt, clay and organic matter.
- But if you re flood the same area, then you'll get all sort of like the water and silt filling all of these cracks.
- I've dealt with silt silt and I've dealt with tall grass.
Examples
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The construction crew had to remove the silt that had built up in the harbor to ensure safe passage for the boats.
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The Taylor Highway moves past bilious streams swollen with the silt of placer mines.
Academic text (1992) -
Last thing you want to do is kick up silt down there.
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So it's going to form sand, silt and clay.
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Well, your soil is not just sand, silt and clay.
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The river normally carries an enormous silt burden, and a flood can increase it dramatically.
Academic text (2011) -
The brown river moves heavily with silt and the dyes from the sweater factory up north.
Fiction book (1991) -
About a quarter of the river's silt settles to the riverbed, filling in the channel.
Academic text (1992) -
Rivers were too often full of mud, silt, and other extraneous material, and were thought unhealthy to drink.
Academic text (1991) -
The Forum was buried beneath river silt, mudslide, debris and rubble from collapsing buildings.
Synonyms
78
3.5
A layer of sand or minerals that nature leaves over time
43
4.2
Small bits that collect at the bottom of water or other liquids
Soil, sand or small stones that a river drops when it slows down
Loose soil and sand that water carries and leaves on banks or fields
Loose soil like sand or clay that a river leaves when it slows
Small particles that sink to the bottom of a liquid
How Fine
Surface Forms
Etymology
Silt comes from an old North European river and sea word for fine 'mud' and 'sand' left by moving water. So silt means the thin, often rich material that rivers and floods drop in channels and on the land near a river.