Definitions for soil
sɔɪlsoil

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.5 / 2 votes

1. dirt, filth, grime, soil, stain, grease, grungenoun

   the state of being covered with unclean things

2. soil, dirtnoun

   the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock

3. land, ground, soilnoun

   material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)

   "the land had never been plowed"; "good agricultural soil"

4. territory, soilverb

   the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state

   "American troops were stationed on Japanese soil"

5. dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemireverb

   make soiled, filthy, or dirty

   "don't soil your clothes when you play outside!"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. soilnoun

   Faeces or urine etc. when found on clothes.

2. soilnoun

   A bag containing soiled items.

3. soilverb

   To make dirty.

4. soilverb

   To dirty one's clothing by accidentally defecating while clothed.

5. soil

   To make invalid, to ruin.

6. soilnoun

   A wet or marshy place in which a boar or other such game seeks refuge when hunted.

7. Etymology: From soile, soyle, sule, partly from soyl, from solium, mistaken for solum; and partly from sol, from sulan, from sūl-. Cognate with söle, sol, sol, söl, søle. See also sole, soal.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Soilnoun

   Etymology: from the verb.

   1. Dirt; spot; pollution; foulness.

   By indirect ways
   I met this crown; and I myself know well
   How troublesome it sate upon my head:
   To thee it shall descend with better quiet;
   For all the soil of the atchievement goes
   With me into the earth. William Shakespeare, Henry. IV.

   That would be a great soil in the new gloss of your marriage. William Shakespeare.

   Vexed I am with passions,
   Which give some soil perhaps to my behaviour. William Shakespeare.

   I would have the soil of her fair rape
   Wip’d off. William Shakespeare.

   A lady’s honour must be touch’d,
   Which, nice as ermines, will not bear a soil. Dryden.

   2. [ Sol, French; solum, Latin.] Ground; earth, considered with relation to its vegetative qualities.

   Judgment may be made of waters by the soil whereupon they run. Francis Bacon, Natural History.

   Her spots thou see’st
   As clouds, and clouds may rain, and rain produce
   Fruits in her soften’d soil. John Milton, Paradise Lost.

   The first cause of a kingdom’s thriving is the fruitfulness of the soil, to produce the necessaries and conveniencies of life; not only for the inhabitants, but for exportation. Jonathan Swift.

   3. Land; country.

   Dorset, that with a fearful soul
   Leads discontented steps in foreign soil,
   This fair alliance shall call home
   To high promotions. William Shakespeare.

   O unexpected stroke, worse than of death!
   Must I thus leave thee, paradise! thus leave
   Thee, native soil! these happy walks and shades;
   Fit haunts of gods. John Milton.

   4. Dung; compost.

   The haven has been stopped up by the great heaps of dirt that the sea has thrown into it; for all the soil on that side of Ravenna has been left there insensibly by the sea. Addis.

   Improve land by manure, dung, and other sort of soils. John Mortimer, Husbandry.

2. To Soilverb

   Etymology: silian , Saxon; soelen, old German; souiller, French.

   1. To foul; to dirt; to pollute; to stain; to sully.

   A silly man in simple weeds forlorn,
   And soiled with dust of the long dried way. Fairy Queen.

   Although some hereticks have abused this text, yet the sun is not soiled in passage. Francis Bacon, Holy War.

   If I soil
   Myself with sin, I then but vainly toil. George Sandys.

   I would not soil these pure ambrosial weeds,
   With the rank vapours of this sin-worm mould. John Milton.

   Bad fruit of knowledge, if this be to know,
   Which leaves us naked thus, of honour void,
   Of innocence, of faith, of purity,
   Our wonted ornaments now soil’d and stain’d. John Milton.

   One who cou’d n’t for a taste o’ th’ flesh come in,
   Licks the soil’d earth,
   While reeking with a mangled Ombit’s blood. Nahum Tate.

   If the eye-glass be tincted faintly with the smoke of a lamp or torch, to obscure the light of the star, the fainter light in the circumference of the star ceases to be visible, and the star, if the glass be sufficiently soiled with smoke, appears something more like a mathematical point. Newton.

   An absent hero’s bed they sought to soil,
   An absent hero’s wealth they made their spoil. Alexander Pope.

   2. To dung; to manure.

   Men now present, just as they soil their ground, not that they love the dirt, but that they expect a crop. South.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Soil

   Soil, also commonly referred to as earth or dirt, is a mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and organisms that together support life. Some scientific definitions distinguish dirt from soil by restricting the former term specifically to displaced soil.

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1. soil

   Soil is a natural resource consisting of layers that are primarily composed of minerals mixed with organic matter, water, and air. This makes it capable of supporting plant life. It serves as a medium for plant growth; a habitat for many different types of organisms; a recycling system for nutrients and organic waste; a regulator of water quality; and a modifier of the atmosphere. The formation of soil involves complex processes of weathering and decomposition over a long period of time.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Soilverb

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

2. Soilnoun

   the upper stratum of the earth; the mold, or that compound substance which furnishes nutriment to plants, or which is particularly adapted to support and nourish them

3. Soilnoun

   land; country

4. Soilnoun

   dung; faeces; compost; manure; as, night soil

5. Soilverb

   to enrich with soil or muck; to manure

6. Soilnoun

   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. Soilnoun

   to make dirty or unclean on the surface; to foul; to dirty; to defile; as, to soil a garment with dust

8. Soilnoun

   to stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully

9. Soilverb

   to become soiled; as, light colors soil sooner than dark ones

10. Soilnoun

    that which soils or pollutes; a soiled place; spot; stain

11. Etymology: [See Soil to make dirty, Soil a miry place.]

WikidataRate this definition:4.7 / 3 votes

1. Soil

   Soil is a natural body consisting of layers that are primarily composed of minerals, mixed with at least some organic matter, which differ from their parent materials in their texture, structure, consistency, color, chemical, biological and other characteristics. It is the unconsolidated or loose covering of fine rock particles that covers the surface of the earth. Soil is the end product of the influence of the climate, relief, organisms, parent materials, and time. In engineering terms, soil is referred to as regolith, or loose rock material that lies above the 'solid geology'. In horticulture, the term 'soil' is defined as the layer that contains organic material that influences and has been influenced by plant roots, and may range in depth from centimetres to many metres. Soil is composed of particles of broken rock which have been altered by physical, chemical and biological processes that include weathering with associated erosion. Soil is created from the alteration of parent material by the interactions between the lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere. It can also be considered a mixture of mineral and organic materials in the form of solids, gases and liquids. Soil is commonly referred to as "earth" or "dirt"; technically, the term "dirt" should be restricted to displaced soil.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. Soil

   soil, n. the ground: the mould on the surface of the earth which nourishes plants: country.—adj. Soil′-bound, attached to the soil.—n. Soil′-cap, the covering of soil on the bed-rock.—adj. Soiled, having soil. [O. Fr. soel, suel, sueil—Low L. solea, soil, ground, L. solea, sole, allied to L. solum, ground, whence Fr. sol, soil.]

2. Soil

   soil, n. dirt: dung: foulness: a spot or stain: a marshy place in which a hunted boar finds refuge.—v.t. to make dirty: to stain: to manure.—v.i. to take a soil: to tarnish.—n. Soil′iness, stain: foulness.—adj. Soil′less, destitute of soil.—ns. Soil′-pipe, an upright discharge-pipe which receives the general refuse from water-closets, &c., in a building; Soil′ure (Shak.), stain: pollution. [O. Fr. soil, souil (Fr. souille), wallowing-place—L. suillus, piggish—sus, a pig, a hog.]

3. Soil

   soil, v.t. to feed at the stall for the purpose of fattening. [O. Fr. saouler—saol, saoul—L. satullus—satur, full.]

U.S. National Library of MedicineRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Soil

   The loose surface material of the earth in which plants grow. (Webster, 3d ed)

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Matched Categories

1. • Dirtiness
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British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'soil' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2462

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'soil' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4785

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'soil' in Nouns Frequency: #958

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Anagrams for soil »

1. silo

2. soli

3. lois

4. siol

How to pronounce soil?

1. Alex

   US English

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   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

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   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

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   Australian

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   Australian

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   Indian

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   Indian

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   US English

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How to say soil in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of soil in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of soil in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of soil in a Sentence

1. Phin Ziebell:

   Western Australia produced a great crop last year because it had good pre-season rains. If the outlook materializes, all soil moisture will be eradicated.

2. Prince Charles:

   Since the beginning of the 1980s, when I first had responsibility for managing some land in my own right at Highgrove, I have wanted to focus on an approach to food production that avoids the impact of the predominant, conventional system of industrialized agriculture, which, it is increasingly clear to see, is having a disastrous effect on soil fertility, biodiversity and animal and human health.

3. John Jay Chapman:

   If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

4. Orison Swett Marden:

   It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

5. Lakshheish M Patel:

   All attempts are being made through bringing down the share price of government organizations to soil their good image in order to facilitate privatization and favor private corporations and thus politicians want to profit with ill money

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=soil
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Soil
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=soil
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/soil
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=soil
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=soil
9. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=soil