Usually means: Fine particles, smaller than sand.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. silt: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. silt: Merriam-Webster
  3. silt: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. silt: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. silt: Collins English Dictionary
  6. silt: Vocabulary.com
  7. Silt, silt: Wordnik
  8. silt: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. silt: Wiktionary
  10. silt: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. silt: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. silt: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. silt: Dictionary.com
  14. silt: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. silt: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Silt (disambiguation), Silt: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Silt: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. silt: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. silt: Rhymezone
  20. Silt: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. silt: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. silt: FreeDictionary.org
  23. silt: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. silt: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Silt: Energy Dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. silt: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SILT: Acronym Finder
  2. silt: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. silt: Urban Dictionary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. silt: Canadian Soil Information System
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Oil Analysis (No longer online)
  5. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See silted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.
noun:  (uncountable, by extension) Any aterial with similar physical characteristics, regardless of its origins or transport.
noun:  (countable, geology) A particle from 3.9 to 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
verb:  (transitive) To clog or fill with silt.
verb:  (intransitive) To become clogged with silt.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To flow through crevices; to percolate.

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