noun · verb · 8 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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Pronunciation
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/sɪlt/
rhymes with -ɪlt
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Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
noun
Meaning 1
Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: slitch
Antonyms: none provided
2
noun
Meaning 2
Any material with similar physical characteristics, regardless of its origins or transport.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
3
noun
Meaning 3
A particle from 3.9 to 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
4
verb
Meaning 4
To clog or fill with silt.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
5
verb
Meaning 5
To become clogged with silt.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
6
verb
Meaning 6
To flow through crevices; to percolate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
7
noun
Meaning 7
mud or clay or small rocks deposited by a river or lake
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
PIE word *sḗh2l 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”).
Across languages
Translations
84 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Afrikaans:
slik
— fine earth deposited by water
Albanian:
lym
— fine earth deposited by water
Arabic:
غَرِين
(ḡarīn)
— fine earth deposited by water
Armenian:
տիղմ
(tiġm)
— fine earth deposited by water
Azerbaijani:
lil
— fine earth deposited by water
Belarusian:
іл
(il)
— fine earth deposited by water
Belarusian:
глей
(hljej)
— fine earth deposited by water
Belarusian:
мул
(mul)
— fine earth deposited by water
Bulgarian:
ти́ня
(tínja)
— fine earth deposited by water
Catalan:
llim
— fine earth deposited by water
Catalan:
llaquim
— fine earth deposited by water
Chinese Mandarin:
泥沙
(níshā)
— fine earth deposited by water
Czech:
nános
— fine earth deposited by water
Czech:
naplavenina
— fine earth deposited by water
Czech:
bahno
— fine earth deposited by water
Danish:
silt
— fine earth deposited by water
Dutch:
silt
— fine earth deposited by water
Finnish:
siltti
— fine earth deposited by water
Finnish:
liete
— fine earth deposited by water
Finnish:
lieju
— fine earth deposited by water
French:
silt
— fine earth deposited by water
French:
vase
— fine earth deposited by water
French:
limon
— fine earth deposited by water
Galician:
sedimento
— fine earth deposited by water
Georgian:
შლამი
(šlami)
— fine earth deposited by water
German:
Schlamm
— fine earth deposited by water
German:
Schlick
— fine earth deposited by water
German:
Schluff
— fine earth deposited by water
Hebrew:
טִיט
(tit)
— fine earth deposited by water
Hebrew:
טִין
(tin)
— fine earth deposited by water
Hindi:
गाद
(gād)
— fine earth deposited by water
Hungarian:
üledék
— fine earth deposited by water
Hungarian:
iszap
— fine earth deposited by water
Hungarian:
kőzetliszt
— fine earth deposited by water
Hungarian:
aleurit
— fine earth deposited by water
Ido:
slamo
— fine earth deposited by water
Indonesian:
silt
— fine earth deposited by water
Indonesian:
debu
— fine earth deposited by water
Irish:
siolta
— fine earth deposited by water
Italian:
limo
— fine earth deposited by water
Japanese:
シルト
(shiruto)
— fine earth deposited by water
Japanese:
沈泥
(chindei)
— fine earth deposited by water
Kapampangan:
banlik
— fine earth deposited by water
Korean:
실트
(silteu)
— fine earth deposited by water
Latvian:
dūņas
— fine earth deposited by water
Lithuanian:
dumblas
— fine earth deposited by water
Maltese:
ħama
— fine earth deposited by water
Māori:
kenepuru
— fine earth deposited by water
Māori:
kotao
— fine earth deposited by water
Māori:
parakiwai
— fine earth deposited by water
Māori:
kotae
— fine earth deposited by water
Māori:
parahua
— fine earth deposited by water
Norwegian Bokmål:
silt
— fine earth deposited by water
Norwegian Nynorsk:
silt
— fine earth deposited by water
Polish:
muł
— fine earth deposited by water
Polish:
ił
— fine earth deposited by water
Portuguese:
sedimento
— fine earth deposited by water
Portuguese:
silte
— fine earth deposited by water
Russian:
ил
(il)
— fine earth deposited by water
Serbo-Croatian:
муљ
— fine earth deposited by water
Serbo-Croatian:
mulj
— fine earth deposited by water
Slovak:
nános
— fine earth deposited by water
Slovak:
silt
— fine earth deposited by water
Slovene:
mulj
— fine earth deposited by water
Spanish:
limo
— fine earth deposited by water
Spanish:
sedimentos fluviales
— fine earth deposited by water
Spanish:
fango
— fine earth deposited by water
Swedish:
silt
— fine earth deposited by water
Tagalog:
labon
— fine earth deposited by water
Ukrainian:
мул
(mul)
— fine earth deposited by water
Ukrainian:
наму́л
(namúl)
— fine earth deposited by water
Ukrainian:
іл
(il)
— fine earth deposited by water
Ukrainian:
глей
(hlej)
— fine earth deposited by water
Welsh:
llaid
— fine earth deposited by water
Welsh:
silt
— fine earth deposited by water
Welsh:
llifwaddod
— fine earth deposited by water
Bulgarian:
затлачвам
(zatlačvam)
— to clog or fill with silt
French:
envaser
— to clog or fill with silt
Ido:
slamizar
— to clog or fill with silt
Serbo-Croatian:
zamuljti
— to clog or fill with silt
Bulgarian:
затлачвам се
(zatlačvam se)
— to become clogged with silt
French:
envaser
— to become clogged with silt
Russian:
заполня́ться и́лом
(zapolnjátʹsja ílom)
— to become clogged with silt
Russian:
проса́чиваться
(prosáčivatʹsja)
— to flow through crevices; to percolate
