silt

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English

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Etymology

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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 (salt-marsh), German Sülze (meat in aspic), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sultijō (salty water; brine). Related to Old English sealt (salt).

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  • IPA(key): /sɪlt/
  • Rhymes: -ɪlt
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Noun

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silt (countable and uncountable, plural silts)

  1. (uncountable) Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.
    Synonym: slitch
  2. (uncountable, by extension) Material with similar physical characteristics, whatever its origins or transport.
  3. (countable, geology) A particle from 3.9 to 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.

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silt (third-person singular simple present silts, present participle silting, simple past and past participle silted)

  1. (transitive) To clog or fill with silt.
  2. (intransitive) To become clogged with silt.
  3. (transitive, intransitive) To flow through crevices; to percolate.

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Danish

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silt (singular definite -en, not used in plural form)

  1. (geology) silt

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Dutch

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silt n (plural silten)

  1. (geology) silt

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French

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silt m (plural silts)

  1. (geology) silt

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Indonesian

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silt (first-person possessive siltku, second-person possessive siltmu, third-person possessive siltnya)

  1. (geology) silt
    Synonym: debu

Norwegian Bokmål

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From English silt.

Noun

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silt (definite singular silten)

  1. silt

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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From English silt.

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silt (definite singular silten)

  1. silt

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Swedish

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silt c (uncountable)

  1. (geology) silt

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