English > soil: 5 senses > noun 2, substance| Meaning | The part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock. |
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| Synonym | dirt |
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| Narrower | Indian red | A red soil containing ferric oxide |
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| alluvial soil | A fine-grained fertile soil deposited by water flowing over flood plains or in river beds |
| bog soil | poorly drained soils on top of peat and under marsh or swamp vegetation |
| bole | A soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment) |
| caliche, hardpan | crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions |
| clay | A very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired |
| clunch | hardened clay |
| desert soil, desertic soil | A type of soil that develops in arid climates |
| fuller's earth | An absorbent soil resembling clay |
| gilgai soil | soil in the melon holes of Australia |
| gumbo, gumbo soil | Any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water |
| humus | partially decomposed organic matter |
| indurated clay | hardened clay |
| laterite | A red soil produced by rock decay |
| loam | A rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials |
| loess | A fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind |
| marl | A loose and crumbling earthy deposit consisting mainly of calcite or dolomite |
| mold, mould | Loose soil rich in organic matter |
| mud, clay | water soaked soil |
| podzol, podzol soil, podsol, podsol soil, podsolic soil | A soil that develops in temperate to cold moist climates under coniferous or heath vegetation |
| prairie soil | A type of soil occurring under grasses in temperate climates |
| regosol | A type of soil consisting of unconsolidated material from freshly deposited alluvium or sand |
| residual soil, residual clay | The soil that is remaining after the soluble elements have been dissolved |
| sand | A loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral |
| sedimentary clay | clay soil formed by sedimentary deposits |
| silt | mud or clay or small rocks deposited by a river or lake |
| subsoil, undersoil | The layer of soil between the topsoil and bedrock |
| till, boulder clay | unstratified soil deposited by a glacier |
| topsoil, surface soil | The layer of soil on the surface |
| tundra soil | A black mucky soil with a frozen subsoil that is characteristic of Arctic and subarctic regions |
| wiesenboden | A dark meadow soil rich in organic material |
| Broader | earth, ground | The loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface |
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| Spanish | suelo, tierra |
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| Catalan | sòl, terra |
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English > soil: 5 senses > noun 3, object| Meaning | material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use). |
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| Example | "good agricultural soil" |
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| Synonyms | land, ground |
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| Narrower | badlands | Deeply eroded barren land |
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| bottomland, bottom | low-lying alluvial land near a river |
| coastland | Land in a coastal area |
| cultivated land, farmland, plowland, ploughland, tilled land, tillage, tilth | arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops |
| overburden | The surface soil that must be moved away to get at coal seams and mineral deposits |
| permafrost | ground that is permanently frozen |
| polder | low-lying land that has been reclaimed and is protected by dikes (especially in the Netherlands) |
| rangeland | Land suitable for grazing livestock |
| scablands | (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 | surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots |
| wetland | A low area where the land is saturated with water |
| Broader | object, physical object | A tangible and visible entity |
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| Spanish | suelo, tierra |
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| Catalan | sòl, terra, terreny |
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English > soil: 5 senses > verb 1, contact| Meaning | make soiled, filthy, or dirty. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
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| Example | "don't soil your clothes when you play outside!" |
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| Synonyms | dirty, begrime, grime, colly, bemire |
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| Narrower | blemish, spot | mar or impair with a flaw |
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| crock | Soil with or as with crock |
| foul | make unclean |
| mire, muck, mud, muck up | Soil with mud, muck, or mire |
| muddy, muddy up | dirty with mud |
| pollute, foul, contaminate | make impure |
| slime | Cover or stain with slime |
| smear | stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance |
| splash | Soil or stain with a splashed liquid / liquid |
| Broader | change, alter, modify | Cause to change |
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| Opposite | clean, make clean | make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from |
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| Spanish | emporcar, enmugrecer, ensuciar, manchar |
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| Catalan | embrutar-se, embrutar, embrutir, empastifar, emporcar-se, enllardar-se, ensutzar, pastifejar, sollar, tacar |
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| Nouns | soil | the state of being covered with unclean things |
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| soiling, soilure | the act of soiling something |
