Synonym: silt up. Similar words: silty, wilt, jilt, lilt, kilt, hilt, tilt, filth. Meaning: [sɪlt] n. mud or clay or small rocks deposited by a river or lake. v. become chocked with silt.
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31 As the peat shrank, the critical outfall of the river Ouse into the North Sea inevitably began to silt up.
32 The mercury is dumped into the rivers of the region by miners who use it to extract gold from silt.
33 Gravel and silt, washed down the mountainside, are clogging his irrigation ditch.
34 The sewers are so filled with silt and the underground plumbing is so old that heavy rains cause rivers on campus.
35 Loam is a mixture of sand, silt, and clay.
36 Without huge investment the reservoirs will silt up.
37 Each was a composite of three scoops of silt.
38 The mechanical strength of the mortar was enhanced by employing silica fume, sepiolite fiber and silt ceramisite[sentencedict.com], so that it could be used in roof insulation engineering.
39 In ferri-argillic horizon, clay and silt become more and iron concentrations exist in the form of the matrix stained by iron.
40 It means that the property of landfill leachate influences the organic matter content in the vadose zone; furthermore silt would more likely exaggerate the effects more than clay.
41 The middle-level of tidal flat is presented as a zone of reworking, which is dominated by silt flats, or tidal channel systems, silt sediments and ripple bedding respectively.
42 Silt and clay is the main fillings of high - qulity subbase in our country.
43 The mouth of the river was beginning to silt up—a powerful symbol of over-exploitation.
44 He settled in the silt, both eyes on the somnambulant beasts - morbid curiosity.
45 Trees, grasses, plastic offal and silt floating and suspending in water belong to physical pollutants.
46 Blocking a river with a dam also blocks the movement of fish upstream to spawn and the movement of silt downstream to fertilise fields.
47 Accumulations of trash and silt should be near the primary element.
48 The comprehensive harnessing of small watershed is a fundamental measure of controlling the river silt carrying capacity.
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49 Shunt diversion flume is an effective method to clear silt by hydraulic energy.
50 No guidelines are available on liquefaction evaluation of silt - clay and silty sand - clay mixtures under cyclic loading.
51 The soil should be of loam, a mixture of sand, silt, clay and organic material.
52 Up to now there aren't relatively complete methods for estimating alongshore quantity of sediment transport on the foreshore with tide and silt material.
53 Orientation of optic spectrum line is affected on silt of monochromaticity and size of CCD photosensitive unit.
54 For utilizing the groundwater resources in aquifer of fine silt and decreasing producing cost of water, the bridging filter shall be positively popularized.
55 A clod of silt can easily be crumbled in the fingers.
56 The grave issues involved in the current environmental dilemma include high population density, environmental pollution, an overabundant of silt in rivers and lakes, and the frequency of disasters.
57 Therefore, the perforated brick made from the Yellow River silt is feasible to be used as the load-bearing wall instead of solid clay brick.
58 And the ownership of shoaly land which silt up naturally should be determined the attaching rule.
59 This paper analyzes the process of fine silt sand production in Liaohe Oilfield, studies sand production factors, mechanisms and the reasons of sand control difficulty.
60 The restoration will also require careful treatment of the sediment that has built up behind the dams—so as not to bury Olympic National Park or the communities downstream with decades of silt.