soil
A mixture of mineral particles and organic material, used to support plant growth.
Noun 4 meanings
A mixture of mineral particles and organic material, used to support plant growth.
“We bought a bag of soil for the houseplants.”
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.
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.
Country or territory.
Verb 4 meanings
To make dirty.
To become dirty or soiled.
“Light colours soil sooner than dark ones.”
To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
To dirty one's clothing by accidentally defecating while clothed.
“The child was so scared she soiled herself.”
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”).
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SOIL at a glance
SOIL has 4 letters and scores 4 points in Scrabble (S 1 + O 1 + I 1 + L 1) and 5 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,458 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with soil
All rhymes- BOIL6
- SPOIL7
- FOIL7
- COIL6
- TURMOIL9
- RECOIL8
- TOIL4
- TOPSOIL9
- TINFOIL10
- BROIL7
- AIRFOIL10
- SUBSOIL9
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