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jilt
English
Etymology
Contracted from Scots jillet (“a giddy girl, a jill-flirt”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??lt/
- Rhymes: -?lt
Noun
jilt (plural jilts)
- A woman who jilts a lover.
- 1683, Thomas Otway, The Soldiers Fortune
- And has she been long a Jilt? has she practi?ed the Trade for any Time?
- 1683, Thomas Otway, The Soldiers Fortune
Translations
Verb
jilt (third-person singular simple present jilts, present participle jilting, simple past and past participle jilted)
- (transitive) To cast off capriciously or unfeelingly, as a lover; to deceive in love.
- Tell a man passionately in love, that he is jilted; bring a score of witnesses of the falsehood of his mistress, it is ten to one but three kind words of hers shall invalidate all their testimonies.
Translations
Turkmen
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic ?????? (jild, “skin, hide”).
Noun
jilt (definite accusative ?, plural ?)
- skin
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silt
English
Etymology
From Middle English silte, cilte, cylte, perhaps from Middle English silen ("to filter; strain"; equivalent to sile +? -t), or cognate with Norwegian and Danish sylt (“salt marsh”), Middle Low German sulte (“salt-marsh”), German Sulze, Sülze (“brine”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sultij? (“salty water; brine”). Related to Old English sealt (“salt”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?lt/
- Rhymes: -?lt
Noun
silt (countable and uncountable, plural silts)
- (uncountable) Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.
- Synonym: slitch
- (uncountable, by extension) Material with similar physical characteristics, whatever its origins or transport.
- (countable, geology) A particle from 3.9 to 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
Translations
See also
- alluvium
- varve
Verb
silt (third-person singular simple present silts, present participle silting, simple past and past participle silted)
- (transitive) To clog or fill with silt.
- (intransitive) To become clogged with silt.
- (transitive, intransitive) To flow through crevices; to percolate.
Derived terms
- silt up
- silting
- desilt and desilting
Translations
Anagrams
- &lits, List, list, lits, slit, tils
Dutch
Noun
silt n (plural silten)
- (geology) silt
Derived terms
- siltsteen
Anagrams
- list, stil
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From English silt
Noun
silt (definite singular silten)
- silt
Derived terms
- siltstein
References
- “silt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From English silt
Noun
silt (definite singular silten)
- silt
Derived terms
- siltstein
References
- “silt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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