SILT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does silt mean? 

• SILT (noun)
  The noun SILT has 1 sense:

1. mud or clay or small rocks deposited by a river or lake

  Familiarity information: SILT used as a noun is very rare.

• SILT (verb)
  The verb SILT has 1 sense:

1. become chocked with silt

  Familiarity information: SILT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SILT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mud or clay or small rocks deposited by a river or lake

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("silt" is a kind of...):

dirt; soil (the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock)

Derivation:

silt (become chocked with silt)

silty (full of silt)

• SILT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they silt    ... he / she / it silts   
Past simple: silted   
Past participle: silted   
-ing form: silting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become chocked with silt

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

silt; silt up

Context example:

The river silted up

Hypernyms (to "silt" is one way to...):

back up; choke; choke off; clog; clog up; congest; foul (become or cause to become obstructed)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

silt (mud or clay or small rocks deposited by a river or lake)

 Context examples 

This mudstone gradually formed billions of years ago from silt that accumulated at the bottom of the ancient lake.

(NASA Finds Ancient Organic Material, Mysterious Methane on Mars, NASA)

A wind-deposited sediment consisting mostly of silt, the silt commonly derived from finely ground rock washed out of continental glaciers.

(Loess, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

A bluff cape to the north and a long spit to the south marked the mouth of the noble river, with a low-lying island of silted sand in the centre, all shrouded and curtained by the spume of the breakers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)