I. noun
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■ ADJECTIVE
fine
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Nearer the sea and along the rivers the soils were all fine silt .
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It grows in shallow water in pools and ponds, most frequently on substrates ranging from sand to fine silt .
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This was a brown, evil-looking brew, topped by grey scum, with the taste and texture of fine silt .
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Their movements would have kicked up the fine silt carpet on the bottom of the lake, obscuring vision.
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Gravel and silt , washed down the mountainside, are clogging his irrigation ditch.
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Obviously, the same river flow that fills them with silt also brings in minerals and organic materials from elsewhere.
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The silt is swirling, and no one seems sure which way is which.
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The crumbled porcelain of a third lay embedded like fossilized prehistoric remains long entombed in silt and mud.
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The plants provide shelter for animals, trap silt and draw nutrients from the water.
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The sewers are so filled with silt and the underground plumbing is so old that heavy rains cause rivers on campus.
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They have little to look forward to, save for fat legs, flopping in the silt of some riverine beach.
II. verb
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■ ADVERB
up
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Increased erosion will accelerate the process of silting up the region's hydro-electric dams.
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The rivers are infinitely renewable, at least until the reservoirs silt up or the climate changes.
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As the peat shrank, the critical outfall of the river Ouse into the North Sea inevitably began to silt up .
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From now until the year 2000, the arts calendar is silting up with festivals, memorials and monumental events.
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As the peat shrank, the critical outfall of the river Ouse into the North Sea inevitably began to silt up.
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From now until the year 2000, the arts calendar is silting up with festivals, memorials and monumental events.
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Increased erosion will accelerate the process of silting up the region's hydro-electric dams.
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The rivers are infinitely renewable, at least until the reservoirs silt up or the climate changes.