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Silt vs Loamy - What's the difference?

silt | loamy |

As a noun silt

is .

As an adjective loamy is

consisting of loam; partaking of the nature of loam; resembling loam.

silt

English

Noun

  • 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

    • See also

    * alluvium * varve

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To clog or fill with silt.
  • To become clogged with silt.
  • To flow through crevices; to percolate.

    • Derived terms

    * silt up

    Anagrams

    * ----

    loamy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Consisting of loam; partaking of the nature of loam; resembling loam.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
    • Yet there was no time to be lost if I was ever to get out alive, and so I groped with my hands against the side of the grave until I made out the bottom edge of the slab, and then fell to grubbing beneath it with my fingers. But the earth, which the day before had looked light and loamy to the eye, was stiff and hard enough when one came to tackle it with naked hands, and in an hour's time I had done little more than further weary myself and bruise my fingers.