silt
/sɪlt/noun
उच्चारण सिल्ट
गाद, तलछट, मिट्टी
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[U]
sand, mud or soil that is carried by flowing water and is left at the mouth of a river or in a harbour
गाद, तलछट, मिट्टी
- The floods left a layer of fertile silt on the fields.
- Silt has reduced the depth of the reservoir.
- Rivers carry silt down from the mountains to the plains.
+ 2 more examples
- The dam is slowly filling with silt.
- Farmers value the rich silt left behind by the annual flood.
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[I, T] ~ (sth) (up)
to become, or to make something become, blocked with sand or mud
गाद से भर जाना
- The old harbour has silted up.
- The canal had silted up and no longer carried water to the fields.
- Over time, the river mouth silted up and ships could no longer enter.
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- The drains silt up every monsoon unless they are cleaned.
- The pond had silted up after years of neglect.
§Structures (grammar patterns) 4
silt (uncountable noun)
Silt is uncountable, so it has no plural and takes a singular verb; measure it with phrases like a layer of silt or tonnes of silt.
'Silt' uncountable noun है, इसलिए इसका plural नहीं बनता और यह singular verb लेता है; मात्रा बताने के लिए 'a layer of silt' जैसे वाक्यांश प्रयुक्त होते हैं।
- The silt left by the flood made the fields fertile.
- A thick layer of silt covered the village road.
silt up (phrasal verb)
As a verb, silt is usually used with up to say that a channel, harbour or reservoir fills with mud and becomes blocked; up cannot be replaced by off or out.
Verb के रूप में 'silt' प्रायः 'up' के साथ आता है, जिसका अर्थ है कि नहर, बंदरगाह या जलाशय कीचड़ से भर कर बंद हो जाता है; 'up' की जगह off या out नहीं आता।
- The old harbour has silted up over the centuries.
silt + be + deposited / carried / washed
The passive is common because rivers and floods act on silt; use by for the river and from or down for the place.
Passive रूप आम है क्योंकि नदियाँ और बाढ़ गाद पर प्रभाव डालती हैं; नदी के लिए 'by' और स्थान के लिए 'from' या 'down' आता है।
- Silt is carried down by the Ganga and deposited in the delta.
silt (transitive and intransitive)
It can be intransitive (the canal silted up) or transitive (the flood silted up the canal), and the result is blocked flow.
यह अकर्मक (the canal silted up) और सकर्मक (the flood silted up the canal) दोनों हो सकता है, और परिणाम बहाव का रुकना है।
- Heavy rain silted up the drains near the market.
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adjective + silt
finethickfertileriverblack
- Fine silt settled on the bottom of the pond.
verb + silt
depositcarrydredgeremovetrap
- The dam traps most of the silt before it reaches the plains.
silt + noun
depositslayerlevelloadsoil
- The silt load of the river increases in the monsoon.
silt + up + noun
a canala harboura reservoira draina lake
- Years of neglect silted up the tank in the village.
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- Farmers in the Ganga plain depend on the silt left behind after floods.
गंगा के मैदान के किसान बाढ़ के बाद छूटी गाद पर निर्भर रहते हैं।
- The reservoir lost a quarter of its capacity because of silt.
गाद के कारण जलाशय की चौथाई क्षमता घट गई।
- Radhika's geography textbook explains how silt builds a delta.
राधिका की भूगोल की पाठ्यपुस्तक बताती है कि गाद से डेल्टा कैसे बनता है।
- The workers dredged the silt from the mouth of the canal.
मज़दूरों ने नहर के मुहाने से गाद निकाली।
- The pond silted up after the cattle trampled its banks for years.
वर्षों तक मवेशियों के किनारे रौंदने से तालाब में गाद भर गई।
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✗ The river deposits a lot of silts in the delta.
✓ The river deposits a lot of silt in the delta.
Silt is uncountable and has no plural form.
'Silt' uncountable है और इसका plural रूप नहीं होता।
✗ The old canal has silted off.
✓ The old canal has silted up.
The phrasal verb is silt up, meaning to fill with mud.
Phrasal verb 'silt up' है, जिसका अर्थ कीचड़ से भर जाना है।
✗ The silt brought by the floods were removed.
✓ The silt brought by the floods was removed.
The subject silt is singular, so the verb must be was.
Subject 'silt' singular है, इसलिए verb 'was' होनी चाहिए।
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✓In the exam
One-word substitution
Fine soil carried and left by rivers is silt or alluvium; the soil it forms is alluvial soil; the land formed at a river mouth is a delta; removing silt from the bottom of a river or harbour is dredging.
नदियों द्वारा लाई और छोड़ी गई महीन मिट्टी silt या alluvium; इससे बनी मिट्टी alluvial soil; नदी के मुहाने पर बनी ज़मीन delta; नदी या बंदरगाह के तल से गाद निकालना dredging।
General knowledge
Alluvial soil of the Indo-Gangetic plain is the most fertile in India; the Sundarbans delta is formed by the Ganga and Brahmaputra.
सिंधु-गंगा मैदान की जलोढ़ मिट्टी भारत में सबसे उपजाऊ है; सुंदरबन delta गंगा और ब्रह्मपुत्र से बना है।