silt

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. (uncountable) Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.
2. (broadly, uncountable) Any material with similar physical characteristics, regardless of its origins or transport.
3. (countable) A particle from 3.9 to 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.

Verb

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

Concepts

limon

vase

envaser

fond

🔙

boues

dépôt vaseux

boue

bone

bourbe

dépôt

Synonymes

ooze

mud

slime

mire

sediment

sludge

alluvium

deposit

lees

blackish mud

slush

slurry

precipitate

puddle

silt up

dregs

shallow

silting

slab

slosh

soil

subside

suspension

drift-wood

mud accumulation

rock flour

etc and deposited

mud silting

mud filling

alluvial soil

inorganic silt

bemire

clay

debris

dirt

draggle

gratings

gumbo

loam

mortar

muddy

refuse

rubbish

sand

seaweeds

settle

Traductions

cieno

limo

Schluff

limo

Schlamm

Schlick

silte

sedimento

verschlammen

llim

silt

insabbiare

λάσπη

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/sɪlt/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: silte

Appartenant à Middle Low German: sulte

Appartenant à allemand: Sülze

Appartenant à ancien anglais: sealt

In summary

PIE word
*séh₂ls
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”).