different between silt vs bioswale

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)

1. (uncountable) Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.

   Synonym: slitch

2. (uncountable, by extension) Material with similar physical characteristics, whatever its origins or transport.
3. (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)

1. (transitive) To clog or fill with silt.
2. (intransitive) To become clogged with silt.
3. (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)

1. (geology) silt

Derived terms

• siltsteen

Anagrams

• list, stil

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English silt

Noun

silt (definite singular silten)

1. silt

Derived terms

• siltstein

References

• “silt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English silt

Noun

silt (definite singular silten)

1. silt

Derived terms

• siltstein

References

• “silt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Etymology

bio- +? swale

Noun

bioswale (plural bioswales)

1. A type of biofilter designed to remove silt and pollution from surface runoff, consisting of a swaled drainage course with gently sloped sides and filled with vegetation, compost and/or riprap.