soil

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A mixture of mineral particles and organic material, used to support plant growth.

   “We bought a bag of soil for the houseplants.”

2. isim 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. isim 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. isim Country or territory.

   “Except during the season in town, she spends her year in golfing, either at St Magnus or Pau, for, like all good Americans, she has long since abjured her native soil.”

5. isim That which soils or pollutes; a stain.

   “And ſince not only a dead Fathers fame, / But more a Ladies honour muſt be touch’d, / Which nice as Ermines will not bear a Soil ; / Let all retire ; that you alone may hear / What ev’n in whiſpers I won’d tell your ear.”

6. isim 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.

   “As Deere being ſtrucke flie thorow many ſoiles, / Yet ſtill the ſhaft ſitcks faſt, ſo ;”

7. isim Dung; compost; manure.

   “night soil”

8. fiil To make dirty.
9. fiil To become dirty or soiled.

   “Light colours soil sooner than dark ones.”

10. fiil To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.

    “[…]They clip vs drunkards, and with Swiniſh phraſe / Soyle our addition, and indeede it takes / From our atchieuements, though perform’d at height / The pith and marrow of our attribute[…]”

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

    “The child was so scared she soiled herself.”

12. fiil To make invalid, to ruin.
13. fiil To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
14. isim Faeces or urine etc. when found on clothes.
15. isim A bag containing soiled items.
16. isim A wet or marshy place in which a boar or other such game seeks refuge when hunted.
17. fiil 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.

    “to soil a horse”