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1. (n.) silt
earthy matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment.
2. (v.i.) silt
to become filled or choked up with silt.
3. (v.t.) silt
to fill or choke up with silt.
Etymology: (1400–50; late ME cylte gravel cf. OE syltan to salt, OHG sulza salt marsh)
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| Definition of 'silt' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (verb) silt
mud or clay or small rocks deposited by a river or lake
2. (verb) silt up, silt
become chocked with silt
"The river silted up"
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| Definition of 'silt' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) silt
mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water
2. (verb) silt
to choke, fill, or obstruct with silt or mud
3. (verb) silt
to flow through crevices; to percolate
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Sense: fine sand and mud left behind by flowing water.
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 Afrikaans: slik |
 Arabic: غَرْيَن، طَمْي |
 Bulgarian: нанос |
 Brazilian: sedimento |
 Czech: bahno, nános |
 German: der Schlamm |
 Danish: dynd |
 Greek: βούρκος, λάσπη |
 Spanish: sedimento, aluvión, limo, |
 Estonian: uhtliiv, muda |
 Farsi: لجن |
 Finnish: liete |
 French: vase |
 Hebrew: סְחוֹפֶת |
 Hindi: गाद |
 Croatian: mulj, glib |
 Hungarian: iszap |
 Indonesian: halus |
 Icelandic: árframburður, botnleðja |
 Italian: limo |
 Japanese: 沈泥 |
 Korean: 미사(微砂) |
 Lithuanian: dumblas, sąnašos |
 Latvian: sanesas; nogulumi |
 Malay: kelodak |
 Dutch: slib |
 Norwegian: bunnslam, dynn |
 Polish: muł |
 Persian: لجن |
 Pashto: خړه، سليټ، پسته خاوره |
 Portuguese: sedimento |
 Romanian: nămol |
 Russian: ил; осадок |
 Slovak: bahno, nános |
 Slovenian: mulj |
 Serbian: mulj |
 Swedish: slam, dy |
 Thai: ขี้โคลน |
 Turkish: mil, balçık |
 Taiwanese: 淤泥，淤沙 |
 Ukrainian: мул, осад на дні |
 Urdu: رسوب |
 Vietnamese: bùn, phù sa |
 Chinese: 淤泥 |
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