The meaning of Silt

noun

A deposit of clay, silt, and sand left by flowing floodwater in a river valley or delta, typically producing fertile soil.

Usage examples:

Many vineyards are located on valley bottoms underlain by alluvium which can provide deep, free-dra…

noun

Sticky mud or dirt.

Usage examples:

That weird clag that fills your back yards and covers your roads

noun

A stiff, sticky fine-grained earth that can be moulded when wet, and is dried and baked to make bricks, pottery, and ceramics.

Usage examples:

The soil is mainly clay

noun

Thick, heavy earth that is soft when wet, and hard when dry or baked

Usage examples:

Clay is used for making bricks and pots.

noun

A sum of money paid into a bank or building society account.

Usage examples:

Cash funds which are an alternative to bank or building society deposits

verb

Put or set down (something or someone) in a specific place.

Usage examples:

He deposited a pile of school books on the kitchen table

noun

An amount of money paid into an account

Usage examples:

She made a large deposit last thursday., will you get your deposit back if you cancel the trip?, th…

noun

Soft, sticky matter resulting from the mixing of earth and water.

Usage examples:

Ankle deep in mud, we squelched across a meadow

noun

A computer-based text or virtual reality game which several players play at the same time, interacting with each other as well as with characters controlled by the computer.

verb

(of a fluid) slowly trickle or seep out of something.

Usage examples:

Blood was oozing from a wound in his scalp

noun

The sluggish flow of a fluid.

Usage examples:

I picked a fruit and watched the ooze of fig milk from the stem

noun

Wet mud or slime, especially that found at the bottom of a river, lake, or sea.

Usage examples:

Abandoned barges sunk in ooze

noun

A loose granular substance, typically pale yellowish brown, resulting from the erosion of siliceous and other rocks and forming a major constituent of beaches, river beds, the seabed, and deserts.

Usage examples:

This magical coast boasts mile upon mile of golden sand

verb

Smooth or polish with sandpaper or a mechanical sander.

Usage examples:

Mask off the area to be painted and sand it down

noun

Matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid; dregs.

Usage examples:

The ice freezes the wine and sediment at the base of the cork

verb

Settle as sediment.

Usage examples:

The erythrocytes were allowed to sediment within the syringe

noun

Solid material, such as dirt or minerals, that falls to the bottom of a liquid

noun

An unpleasantly thick and slippery liquid substance.

Usage examples:

The cold stone was wet with slime

verb

Cover with slime.

Usage examples:

What grass remained was slimed over with pale brown mud

noun

A smooth, sticky, liquid substance usually considered unpleasant

Usage examples:

A greenish slime covered the surface of the water near the sewer pipe.

noun

Thick, soft, wet mud or a similar viscous mixture of liquid and solid components, especially the product of an industrial or refining process.

Usage examples:

The dumping of sewage sludge

noun

Wet dirt, or any other thick, wet substance

Usage examples:

The dirty water left a layer of sludge in the bottom of the pail.