silt

IPA: sˈɪɫt

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

Examples of "silt" in Sentences

The silts of the soil are coarse.
We determined to mix silt and clay.
The soil is mostly of the type silt.
Excessive silt load in the lake has lowered the storage.
The bottom of the lagoon is formed of silt clay substratum.
We determined the percent silt and clay using a hydrometer.
A huge layer of silt was brought in by the waves of the Tsunami.
So I can actually bury huges parts of Egypt in silt if I need to.
It is suggested that the pair were represented by the silt of the sea bed.
Its favored habitat is silt, sand and gravel subject to regular inundation.
Its favoured habitat is silt, sand and gravel subject to regular inundation.
The silt from the estuary had suddenly given way to the deep blue of the sea.
You have loam and we have river bed sand and decomposed granite and perhaps silt from the river.
But I do want to enter a modest plea for the strange and wonderful, the subversive gold dust you find in silt, online or off.
Because the depth is always just slightly over your head you never get into areas where someone has stirred up a bunch of silt from the bottom.
When we first set up shop in a dusty film studio in Giza, which is the town next to Cairo, I found Dr. Sala on the back lot, aging some of our sets with silt from the Nile.
On Mars, NASA's robot rover Spirit is spinning its wheels on the soft shoulder of planetary exploration, up to its axles in silt millions of miles away from tense engineers who are struggling to extricate it by remote control.