soil

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. (uncountable) A mixture of mineral particles and organic material, used to support plant growth.
2. (uncountable) The unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth that serves as a natural medium for the growth of land plants.
3. (uncountable) The unconsolidated mineral or organic matter on the surface of the earth that has been subjected to and shows effects of genetic and environmental factors of: climate (including water and temperature effects), and macro- and microorganisms, conditioned by relief, acting on parent material over a period of time. A product-soil differs from the material from which it is derived in many physical, chemical, biological, and morphological properties and characteristics.
4. (countable, uncountable) Country or territory.
5. (countable, uncountable) That which soils or pollutes; a stain.
6. (countable, uncountable) A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer.
7. (countable, uncountable) Dung; compost; manure.

Verb

1. (transitive) To make dirty.
2. (intransitive) To become dirty or soiled.
3. (figuratively, transitive) To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
4. (reflexive) To dirty one's clothing by accidentally defecating while clothed.
5. To make invalid, to ruin.
6. To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.

Verb

To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an enclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (due to such food having the effect of purging them) to purge by feeding on green food.

Sinonieme

earth

ground

land

dirt

dirty

stain

make dirty

sully

defile

clay

mud

dust

sand

pollute

foul

get dirty

grime

smudge

smirch

loam

blot

tarnish

filth

besmirch

contaminate

territory

befoul

smear

muddy

begrime

field

country

bedraggle

besmear

bedaub

mould

world

🗺️

taint

splotch

corrupt

sandy

clod

ashes

moil

bemire

impureness

maculate

centre

area

center

Vertalings

terre

sol

Boden

suelo

suolo

tierra

Erde

solo

terra

grond

salir

sporcare

aarde

beschmutzen

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/sɔɪl̩/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: soile

Geërf van Old English: sol

Verwante met Middle Low German: söle

Verwante met Middle Dutch: sol

Verwante met Middle High German: sol

Verwante met Deens: søle

Verwante met Frans: seuil

Geërf van Middle English: soilen

Geërf van Old English: solian

Verwante met Old Frisian: sulia

Verwante met Middle Dutch: soluwen

Verwante met Old High German: solōn

Verwante met Duits: suhlen

Verwante met Sweeds: söla

Verwante met Goties: 𐌱𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌿𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽

Geërf van Middle English: soyl

Verwante met Old English: syle

Verwante met Old High German: sol

Verwante met Duits: Suhle

In summary

From Middle English soile, soyle, sule (“ground, earth”), partly from Anglo-Norman soyl (“bottom, ground, pavement”), from Latin solium (“seat, chair; throne”), mistaken for Latin solum (“ground, foundation, earth, sole of the foot”); and partly from Old English sol (“mud, mire, wet sand”), from Proto-Germanic *sulą (“mud, spot”), from Proto-Indo-European *sūl- (“thick liquid”). Cognate with Middle Low German söle (“dirt, mud”), Middle Dutch sol (“dirt, filth”), Middle High German sol, söl (“dirt, mud, mire”), Danish søle (“mud, muck”). Compare French seuil (“level; threshold”) and sol (“soil, earth; ground”). See also sole, soal, solum.
For the sole and soil relation, compare typologically Russian по́чва (póčva) akin to подо́шва (podóšva).

Sinne

The virus can survive in the soil for at least six months .

The bases for these sculptures often are set in soil taken from these places .

Ukrainian folk word "solontsi" means salty soil .