Sediment vs Silty - What's the difference?
sediment | silty |
A collection of small particles, particularly dirt, that precipitates from a river or other body of water.
Having a noticeable amount of silt.
:The silty river needed its channel dredged periodically to remain navigable.
As a noun sediment
is a collection of small particles, particularly dirt, that precipitates from a river or other body of water.As a verb sediment
is to deposit material as a sediment.As an adjective silty is
having a noticeable amount of silt.sediment
English
(wikipedia sediment)Noun
(en noun)- The Nile delta is composed of sediment that was washed down and deposited at the mouth of the river.