Dagens Engelsk ord

soil

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Definitioner

Engelsk > Engelsk

soil

1. n. A mixture of sand and organic material, used to support plant growth.

2. n. 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. n. 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

4. n. Country or territory.

The refugees returned to their native soil.

Kenyan soil

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

6. n. 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.

7. n. Dung; compost; manure.

night soil

8. v. To make dirty.

9. v. (intransitive) To become dirty or soiled.

Light colours soil sooner than dark ones.

10. v. (transitive, figurative) To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.

11. v. (reflexive) To dirty one's clothing by accidentally defecating while clothed.

12. v. To make invalid, to ruin.

13. v. To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.

14. n. (euphemistic) Faeces or urine etc. when found on clothes.

15. n. (medicine) A bag containing soiled items.

16. n. A wet or marshy place in which a boar or other such game seeks refuge when hunted.

17. v. 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 (such food having the effect of purging them), to

to soil a horse

Svenska > Engelsk

jord

1. n-c. earth, soil; a rock- or sand-based unconsolidated material in which land plants grow

2. n-c. earth, ground (as opposed to the sky or sea)

3. n-c. earth; one of the four or five basic elements in alchemical or Taoist philosophy

4. n-c. any (hypothetical) planet very similar to Earth which would be able support human life without ever-present technological support.

5. n-c. a piece of land, suitable for farming

6. n-c. (slightly formal) soil; country, territory; in particular with reference to one's native land.

7. n-c. earth, ground; electrical connection to the earth/ground

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Exempelmeningar

You wouldn't believe the stuff we're finding in the soil.
If you were a woman you ended up in an office drawing soil maps and if you were a man you did what I wanted to do which was to go to third world countries and help them with the soil conservation.
If you were a woman you ended up in an office drawing soil maps and if you were a man you did what I wanted to do which was to go to third world countries and help them with the soil conservation.
This may sound a little obsessive, but I like to water the soil in the late afternoon just to draw the slugs out.
A few small bags of contaminated soil, and a few of cleaned soil.

Repetera tidigare ord

attic	slope	cow	razor blade
band	desert	screwdriver	sap
crowbar	chalk	door	talk
day	shelf	valley	drummer

Slumpmässig

crowbar	grandmother	forty-seven	stomach
drain	ladder	tool	fifty-two
safety belt	fifty	scream	living room
prawn	rake	eight	fifteen

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