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Noun (4 meanings)
soil is a type of:
soil is derivationally related to:
- begrimed, dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy (adjective) - thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot
- to dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire (verb) - make soiled, filthy, or dirty
- dirty, soiled, unclean (adjective) - soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime
- dirty, contaminating (adjective) - spreading pollution or contamination
- filthy, foul, nasty (adjective) - disgustingly dirty
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- to grease (verb) - lubricate with grease
- to stain (verb) - produce or leave stains
soil is a type of:
- earth, ground (noun) - the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface
types of soil:
- Indian red (noun) - a red soil containing ferric oxide
- alluvial soil (noun) - a fine-grained fertile soil deposited by water flowing over flood plains or in river beds
- bog soil (noun) - poorly drained soils on top of peat and under marsh or swamp vegetation
- bole (noun) - a soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment)
- caliche, hardpan (noun) - crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions
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- clay (noun) - a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired
- clunch (noun) - hardened clay
- desert soil, desertic soil (noun) - a type of soil that develops in arid climates
- fuller's earth (noun) - an absorbent soil resembling clay
- gilgai soil (noun) - soil in the melon holes of Australia
- gumbo, gumbo soil (noun) - any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water
- humus (noun) - partially decomposed organic matter
- indurated clay (noun) - hardened clay
- laterite (noun) - a red soil produced by rock decay
- loam (noun) - a rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials
- loess (noun) - a fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind
- marl (noun) - a loose and crumbling earthy deposit consisting mainly of calcite or dolomite
- mold, mould (noun) - loose soil rich in organic matter
- mud, clay (noun) - water soaked soil
- podzol, podzol soil, podsol, podsol soil, podsolic soil (noun) - a soil that develops in temperate to cold moist climates under coniferous or heath vegetation
- prairie soil (noun) - a type of soil occurring under grasses in temperate climates
- regosol (noun) - a type of soil consisting of unconsolidated material from freshly deposited alluvium or sand
- residual soil, residual clay (noun) - the soil that is remaining after the soluble elements have been dissolved
- sand (noun) - a loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral
- sedimentary clay (noun) - clay soil formed by sedimentary deposits
- silt (noun) - mud or clay or small rocks deposited by a river or lake
- subsoil, undersoil (noun) - the layer of soil between the topsoil and bedrock
- till, boulder clay (noun) - unstratified soil deposited by a glacier
- topsoil, surface soil (noun) - the layer of soil on the surface
- tundra soil (noun) - a black mucky soil with a frozen subsoil that is characteristic of Arctic and subarctic regions
- wiesenboden (noun) - a dark meadow soil rich in organic material
Examples:
- “the land had never been plowed”,
- “good agricultural soil”
soil is a type of:
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- permafrost (noun) - ground that is permanently frozen
- polder (noun) - low-lying land that has been reclaimed and is protected by dikes (especially in the Netherlands)
- rangeland (noun) - land suitable for grazing livestock
- scablands (noun) - (geology) flat elevated land with poor soil and little vegetation that is scarred by dry channels of glacial origin (especially in eastern Washington)
- turf, sod, sward, greensward (noun) - surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots
- wetland (noun) - a low area where the land is saturated with water
Example:
- “American troops were stationed on Japanese soil”
soil is a type of:
soil is derivationally related to:
- territorial (adjective) - of or relating to a territory
Verb (1 meaning)
Example:
- “don't soil your clothes when you play outside!”
to soil is the opposite of:
- to clean, make clean (verb) - make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from
to soil is a way to:
ways to soil:
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- to pollute, foul, contaminate (verb) - make impure
- to slime (verb) - cover or stain with slime
- to smear (verb) - stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance
- to splash (verb) - soil or stain with a splashed liquid
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