Sift vs Silt - What's the difference?
sift | silt |
To sieve or strain (something).
To separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving.
To examine (something) carefully.
* 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 28.
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Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.
Material with similar physical characteristics, whatever its origins or transport.
(geology) A particle from 3.9 to 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
To clog or fill with silt.
To become clogged with silt.
To flow through crevices; to percolate.
As verbs the difference between sift and silt
is that sift is to sieve or strain (something) while silt is to clog or fill with silt.As a noun silt is
mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.sift
English
Verb
- But if we still carry on our sifting humour, and ask, What is the foundation of all conclusions from experience ? this implies a new question.
- It immediately occurred to him to sift her on the subject of Isabella and Theodore.