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Meanings of soil in English
Portuguese
território Synonyms
Examples for "dirty"
Examples for "dirty"
1
Use this form as a quick-and-dirty way to create a new file.
2
He stammered; his mouth wobbled; he covered it with a dirty hand.
3
I looked at the letter; it was very dirty, and I said:
4
The stocks of many of the rifles were wrapped in dirty rags.
5
Some of them are dirty in their persons and in their habits.
1
I would rather bring up a colly than a man.
2
Even a Times subscriber can get colly-wobbles & the lady phoned the Times asking what had gone wrong.
3
PC's give me the colly-wobbles, too.
4
Of the sixteen other collies the majority were sables of divers shades.
5
Mr. W. is always training two or three collies to be Lassie.
1
In the depths of this yard stood a low, iron-roofed, smoke-begrimed building.
2
Fallion saw that his beard was not gray, merely begrimed with ash.
3
They were begrimed and charred, as if they had survived a fire.
4
His face was begrimed with dirt, his clothes were torn and untidy.
5
All defiling, smoke-begriming factories were to be banished to an innocuous distance.
1
So I hurried on, splashing and bemiring myself in the byways of the Bourbonnais.
2
There they came upon a pitiful group of humanity, bemired.
3
Steed and rider were bemired up to the eyes.
4
He is morally bemired, bespattered, and trod under foot, until he remains a lifeless carcase.
5
The bemired figure straightened to strike a parade-ground formal salute then grinned, his clay-caked cheeks cracking.
Usage of soil in English
1
Our police investigation into this serious crime on Malaysian soil will continue.
2
Cadmium presence in soil is considered a significant threat to human health.
3
Ten years of water seepage has a way of obliterating soil differences.
4
She fully expects another terror attack on American soil in the future.
5
They play an indispensable part in the vital cycle of the soil.
6
It's been nine years since we launched American astronauts, from American soil.
7
They need good light without direct sunshine, and a rich, general-purpose soil.
8
Planting deep-rooted crops would allow farmers to better exploit available soil moisture.
9
Biological properties; the work of very minute living organisms in the soil.
10
He said: I brought in some soil samples from the Jovian system.
11
The forest represents the aristocratic element in the cultivation of the soil.
12
He dug the graves, and laid the corpse in the kindly soil.
13
In turn, soil lead content was inversely associated with muscle metal levels.
14
I have not set foot on my native soil for a year.
15
On the industrialization of agriculture and the links between soil and health:
16
The first rocket to be launched from New Zealand soil has problems.
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Translations for soil
Portuguese
Catalan
Soil through the time
Soil across language varieties
New Zealand
Common
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
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