silt

Word family

Related topics: Geology

silt1 /sɪlt/ noun [uncountableU]

1.HEGsand, mud, soil etc that is carried in water and then settles at a bend in a river, an entrance to a port etc 淤泥，〔沉积的〕泥沙

Examples from the Corpus

silt• Gravel and silt, washed down the mountainside, are clogging his irrigation ditch.• The crumbled porcelain of a third lay embedded like fossilized prehistoric remains long entombed in silt and mud.• They have little to look forward to, save for fat legs, flopping in the silt of some riverine beach.• The silt is swirling, and no one seems sure which way is which.• The plants provide shelter for animals, trap silt and draw nutrients from the water.• The sewers are so filled with silt and the underground plumbing is so old that heavy rains cause rivers on campus.• Obviously, the same river flow that fills them with silt also brings in minerals and organic materials from elsewhere.

silt2 verb

1 silt up phrasal verbphr v SHUT/CLOSEif something silts up or is silted up, it becomes filled with silt （被）淤塞

The old harbour silted up years ago.

这个老港湾在许多年前就淤塞了。

Examples from the Corpus

silt• From now until the year 2000, the arts calendar is silting up with festivals, memorials and monumental events.• Increased erosion will accelerate the process of silting up the region's hydro-electric dams.• The rivers are infinitely renewable, at least until the reservoirs silt up or the climate changes.• As the peat shrank, the critical outfall of the river Ouse into the North Sea inevitably began to silt up.

Origin silt1

(1400-1500) Probably from a Scandinavian language

Chinese

Corpus

TOEFL BNC: 16816 COCA: 15872

silt

noun

ADJECTIVE | ... OF SILT | VERB + SILT | SILT + NOUN | PREPOSITION

ADJECTIVE

➤fine細泥沙

◇The water contains fine silt.水裏含有細泥沙。

... OF SILT

➤deposit, layer泥沙層

◇The wreck was covered in a fine layer of silt.沉船被一層薄薄的淤泥覆蓋。

VERB + SILT

➤deposit沉澱泥沙

◇During the annual floods the river deposits its silt on the fields.每年河水泛濫時都會在田野上沉積一層淤泥。

➤remove清除淤泥

➤be covered in, be covered with覆蓋着淤泥

SILT + NOUN

➤deposit淤泥沉澱

PREPOSITION

➤with silt用泥沙

◇The tunnel had been blocked with silt.隧道被泥沙堵住了。

TOEFL BNC: 16816 COCA: 15872

silt

Soil and earth: alluvium, clay, clod...