Dictionary entry details
• DIRT (noun)
Meaning:
The part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
dirt; soil
Hypernyms ("dirt" is a kind of...):
earth; ground (the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dirt"):
marl (a loose and crumbling earthy deposit consisting mainly of calcite or dolomite; used as a fertilizer for soils deficient in lime)
laterite (a red soil produced by rock decay; contains insoluble deposits of ferric and aluminum oxides)
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)
mold; mould (loose soil rich in organic matter)
clay; mud (water soaked soil; soft wet earth)
bole (a soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment))
podsol; podsol soil; podsolic soil; podzol; podzol soil (a soil that develops in temperate to cold moist climates under coniferous or heath vegetation; an organic mat over a grey leached layer)
prairie soil (a type of soil occurring under grasses in temperate climates)
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)
boulder clay; till (unstratified soil deposited by a glacier; consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together)
tundra soil (a black mucky soil with a frozen subsoil that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions)
Indian red (a red soil containing ferric oxide; often used as a pigment)
indurated clay (hardened clay)
humus (partially decomposed organic matter; the organic component of soil)
regosol (a type of soil consisting of unconsolidated material from freshly deposited alluvium or sand)
residual clay; residual soil (the soil that is remaining after the soluble elements have been dissolved)
surface soil; topsoil (the layer of soil on the surface)
subsoil; undersoil (the layer of soil between the topsoil and bedrock)
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)
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)
caliche; hardpan (crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions)
fuller's earth (an absorbent soil resembling clay; used in fulling (shrinking and thickening) woolen cloth and as an adsorbent)
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)
wiesenboden (a dark meadow soil rich in organic material; developed through poor drainage in humid grassy or sedge regions)
Meaning:
The state of being covered with unclean things
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
soil; grunge; grime; grease; filth; dirt; stain
Hypernyms ("dirt" is a kind of...):
dirtiness; uncleanness (the state of being unsanitary)
Meaning:
Obscene terms for feces
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
crap; poop; shit; shite; turd; dirt
Hypernyms ("dirt" is a kind of...):
BM; dejection; faecal matter; faeces; fecal matter; feces; ordure; stool (solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels)
Domain usage:
dirty word; filth; obscenity; smut; vulgarism (an offensive or indecent word or phrase)
Meaning:
Disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
malicious gossip; scandal; dirt
Hypernyms ("dirt" is a kind of...):
comment; gossip; scuttlebutt (a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people)
• DIRT (adjective)
Meaning:
(of roads) not leveled or drained; unsuitable for all year travel
Synonyms:
dirt; ungraded
Similar:
unimproved (not made more desirable or valuable or profitable; especially not made ready for use or marketing)
