soil

Meaning

Noun

1. A mixture of mineral particles and organic material, used to support plant growth.
2. 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. 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. Country or territory.
5. That which soils or pollutes; a stain.
6. 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. Dung; compost; manure.

Verb

1. To make dirty.
2. To become dirty or soiled.
3. To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
4. 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.

Concepts

soil

earth

ground

land

dirt

dirty

stain

make dirty

defile

sully

clay

sand

dust

mud

pollute

foul

grime

get dirty

smudge

filth

smirch

tarnish

blot

loam

contaminate

befoul

besmirch

territory

smear

muddy

begrime

field

bedaub

splotch

taint

mould

world

bedraggle

besmear

country

basis

blacken

blemish

clod

gravel

sandy

spoil

corrupt

bemire

colly

grease

grunge

daub

maculate

moil

spot

terrain

center

centre

impureness

tract

make a mess

ashes

mess up

area

mire

substratum

floor

muck up

mark

streak

base foundation

lot

plot of land

soil quality

contamination

sombreness

be soiled

be sullied

be spotted

be stained

sullied

defect

deficiency

flaw

solid ground

terra firma

bottom

harm

make mischief

play dirty tricks

waste

fiield

make rough

crock

profane

feed up

fatten

rubbish

silt

mortar for building

age

era

nature

place

space

time

glebe

impurity

lousiness

ordure

sluttishness

dirtiness

speck

bespatter

slur

holding

terra

soil culture

red earth

brown earth

topsoil

walk

crumb

extent

beat

belt

circuit

compass

demesne

district

domain

dominion

parcel

parcel of land

piece of ground

piece of land

precinct

premises

region

section

sphere

territorial dominion

yard

zone

draggle

muck

muddy up

smutch

dinginess

dunghill

filthiness

griminess

grubbiness

seediness

sordidness

uncleanness

substrate

bank gravel

crushed rock

detritus

pit run

on the ground

make filthy

muddle

compost

subsoil

smut

beslobber

moss

fail

banco

continent

embossment

landmass

mainland

relief

relievo

rilievo

shore

red clay

Earth

favour

flatter

multiply

Pronounced as (IPA)

/sɔɪl̩/

Etymology

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.

Sentences

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