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soil



terra
terra


Definições

inglês > português
soil
     1. solo
     2. sujar
inglês > inglês
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
português > inglês
terra
     1. n-f. land; region; territory (area associated with something)
           Cuidado, essa é a terra dos caçadores de cabeças. - Be careful, that is the land of the headhunters.
     2. n-f. ground (the surface of the Earth outside buildings)
           Deixa essa pedra na terra. - Leave that rock on the ground.
     3. n-f. land; property (partitioned and measurable area owned by someone)
           Compramos uma terra para criar gado. - We bought land to raise cattle.
     4. n-f. (sailing) land; dry land; ground (places outside a body of water)
           Após meses de viagem, finalmente chegaram em terra. - After months of travel, they finally arrived on land.
     5. n-f. earth; soil (mixture of sand and organic material found on the ground)
           A camisa está suja de terra. - The shirt is dirty with soil.
     6. n-f. land; homeland
           Lá na minha terra tem muitas capivaras. - There are a lot of capybaras in my homeland.
     7. Proper noun. alternative case form of Terra
     8. v. verb form of terrar

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Exemplos

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.



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