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soil

Erde

Definitionen

Englisch > Deutsch
soil
1. Substantiv:
2. [1] der Boden, die Erde, der Erdboden
[1] The soil is pretty sandy around here.
Der Boden ist ziemlich sandig in der Gegend.
3. [1] beschmutzen, schmutzig machen
[1] This sofa soils pretty easy.
Dieses Sofa wird leicht dreckig.
Englisch > Englisch
soil
1. subst. A mixture of sand and organic material, used to support plant growth.
2. subst. 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. subst. 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. subst. Country or territory.
The refugees returned to their native soil.
Kenyan soil
5. subst. That which soils or pollutes; a stain.
6. subst. 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. subst. 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. subst. (euphemistic) Faeces or urine etc. when found on clothes.
15. subst. (medicine) A bag containing soiled items.
16. subst. 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
Deutsch > Englisch
Erde
1. n-f. soil
Sie nahm eine Handvoll Erde. - She took a handful of soil.
2. n-f. the ground
Er fiel auf die Erde. - He fell on the ground.
3. n-f. a world; a space to live in
Diese Erde wird vergehen, aber Gott wird eine neue Erde schaffen. - This earth will fade, but God will create a new earth.
4. Proper noun. the planet Earth

Aussprache

Beispielsätze

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.

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.