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dirt
(dûrt)n.
1. Earth or soil.
2.
a. A filthy or soiling substance, such as mud or dust.
b. Excrement.
3. A squalid or filthy condition.
4. One that is mean, contemptible, or vile.
5.
a. Obscene language or subject matter.
b. Malicious or scandalous gossip.
c. Information that embarrasses or accuses.
6. Unethical behavior or practice; corruption.
7. Material, such as gravel or slag, from which metal is extracted in mining.
[Middle English, variant of drit, excrement, filth, mud, from Old Norse.]
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dirt
(dɜːt)n
1. any unclean substance, such as mud, dust, excrement, etc; filth
2. loose earth; soil
3. (Civil Engineering)
a. packed earth, gravel, cinders, etc, used to make a racetrack
b. (as modifier): a dirt track.
4. (Mining & Quarrying) mining the gravel or soil from which minerals are extracted
5. a person or thing regarded as worthless
6. obscene or indecent speech or writing
7. slang gossip; scandalous information
8. moral corruption
9. do someone dirt slang to do something vicious to someone
10. dish the dirt informal to reveal secrets or spread malicious gossip about someone
11. eat dirt slang to accept insult without complaining
12. treat someone like dirt to have no respect or consideration for someone
[C13: from Old Norse drit excrement; related to Middle Dutch drēte]
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dirt
(dɜrt)n.
1. any foul or filthy substance, as mud, grime, dust, or excrement.
2. earth or soil, esp. when loose.
3. something or someone vile, mean, or worthless.
4. moral filth; vileness; corruption.
5. obscene or lewd language.
6. gossip, esp. of a malicious nature.
7. (in placer mining) the material from which gold is separated by washing.
[1250–1300; Middle English dirt, drit < Old Norse drit excrement, akin to Middle Dutch drēte]
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Dirt
See also cleanliness; soil
a devotion to or worship of filth and obscenity.
Rare. an abnormal fear of being dirty.
1. the condition of being befouled or besmirched.
2. the material causing this condition. — feculent, adj.
2. the material causing this condition. — feculent, adj.
1. the state or condition of being sooty or smoky.
2. soot or smoke. — fuliginous, adj.
2. soot or smoke. — fuliginous, adj.
the state or quality of being blemished, stained, or spotted, as with dirt. Also maculation. — maculate, adj.
an abnormal fear of dirt, especially of being contaminated by dirt.
an abnormal attraction to filth.
an abnormal fear of filth.
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| Noun | 1. |  dirt - the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rockmarl - a loose and crumbling earthy deposit consisting mainly of calcite or dolomite; used as a fertilizer for soils deficient in lime 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 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 earth, ground - the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface; "they dug into the earth outside the church" 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 humus - partially decomposed organic matter; the organic component of soil indurated clay - hardened clay Indian red - a red soil containing ferric oxide; often used as a pigment 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 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 wiesenboden - a dark meadow soil rich in organic material; developed through poor drainage in humid grassy or sedge regions |
| 2. |  dirt - the state of being covered with unclean thingsdirtiness, uncleanness - the state of being unsanitary | |
| 3. |  dirt - obscene terms for feces faecal matter, faeces, fecal matter, feces, ordure, BM, dejection, stool - solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels | |
| 4. |  dirt - disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other peoplescuttlebutt, gossip, comment - a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people; "the divorce caused much gossip" | |
| Adj. | 1. | dirt - (of roads) not leveled or drained; unsuitable for all year travel unimproved - not made more desirable or valuable or profitable; especially not made ready for use or marketing; "taxes on unimproved land are low"; "unimproved dirt roads" |
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dirt
noun
1. filth, muck, grime, dust, mud, stain, crap (taboo slang), tarnish, smudge, mire, impurity, slob (Irish), crud (slang), kak (S. African taboo slang), grot (slang) I started to scrub off the dirt.
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dirt
[dɜːt]A. N
1. (= unclean matter) → suciedad f; (= piece of dirt) → suciedad f, mugre f
to treat sb like dirt → tratar a algn como si fuese basura, tratar a patadas a algn
to dig up dirt on sb → sacar los trapos sucios de algn
to treat sb like dirt → tratar a algn como si fuese basura, tratar a patadas a algn
to dig up dirt on sb → sacar los trapos sucios de algn
3. (= obscenity) → porquerías fpl, cochinadas fpl
this book is nothing but dirt → este libro está lleno de porquerías or cochinadas
this book is nothing but dirt → este libro está lleno de porquerías or cochinadas
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dirt
(dəːt) noun any unclean substance, such as mud, dust, dung etc. His shoes are covered in dirt.suciedad
ˈdirty adjective1. not clean. dirty clothes.sucio
2. mean or unfair. a dirty trick.sucio
4. (of weather) stormy. malo
verb to make or become dirty. He dirtied his hands/shoes.ensuciar; ensuciarse
ˈdirtiness nounˌdirt-ˈcheap adjective, adverb very cheap. baratísimo
dirt track an earth-track for motor-racing. camino de tierra
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dirt
n suciedad fEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.