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- Dictionarysilt/sɪlt/
noun
- 1. fine sand, clay, or other material carried by running water and deposited as a sediment, especially in a channel or harbour.
verb
- 1. become filled or blocked with silt: "the river's mouth had silted up"
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SILT definition: 1. sand or soil that is carried along by flowing water and then dropped, especially at a bend in a…. Learn more.
The meaning of SILT is loose sedimentary material with rock particles usually 1/2₀ millimeter or less in diameter; also : soil containing 80 percent or more of such silt and less than 12 percent of clay. How to use silt in a sentence.
verb. A sedimentary material consisting of grains or particles of disintegrated rock, smaller than sand and larger than clay. The diameter of the particles ranges from 0.0039 to 0.0625 mm. Silt is often found at the bottom of bodies of water where it accumulates slowly by settling through the water.
Silt is the fine bits of clay and sand that become sediment settling at the bottom of a river or lake. If there's a lot of silt flowing in a river, it looks murky.
SILT meaning: sand, soil, mud, etc., that is carried by flowing water and that sinks to the bottom of a river, pond, etc.
silt. noun [ U ] us / sɪlt / uk / sɪlt / Add to word list. sand or soil that is carried along by flowing water and then dropped, especially at a bend in a river or at a river's opening. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Soil. alluvial. boulder clay. clayey. cover crop. earthiness. frozen. humus. lime. loam. ooze. peat moss. sandy.
noun. 1. sediment suspended in stagnant water or carried by moving water, that often accumulates on the bottom of rivers, bays, etc., esp. such sediment with particles smaller than sand and larger than clay. 2. soil composed of 80 percent or more silt and less than 12 percent clay. verb transitive, verb intransitive.
Definition of silt noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
SILT definition: sand and clay that has been carried along by a river and is left on land. Learn more.
Silt is detritus (fragments of weathered and eroded rock) with properties intermediate between sand and clay. A more precise definition of silt used by geologists is that it is detrital particles with sizes between 1/256 and 1/16 mm (about 4 to 63 microns). [2]
