Coke vs Soil - What's the difference?
coke | soil |
(uncountable) Solid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven; used principally as a fuel and in the production of steel and formerly as a domestic fuel.
* The plant should produce approximately 550,000 tons of screened blast furnace coke per year.
To produce coke from coal.
To turn into coke.
(informal, slang, uncountable) Cocaine.
(uncountable) A mixture of sand and organic material, used to support plant growth.
(uncountable) 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.
(uncountable) 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 effects), and macro- and microorganisms, conditioned by relief, acting on parent material over a period of time. A product-soil differs from the material from which it is derived in many physical, chemical, biological, and morphological properties and characteristics.
Country or territory.
That which soils or pollutes; a stain.
* Dryden
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.
* Marston
Dung; compost; manure.
* Mortimer
To make dirty.
* Milton
To become dirty or soiled.
(figurative) To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
(reflexive) To dirty one's clothing by accidentally defecating while clothed.
To make invalid, to ruin.
To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
* South
(uncountable, euphemistic) Faeces or urine etc. when found on clothes.
(countable, medicine) A bag containing soiled items.
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 purge by feeding on green food.
As nouns the difference between coke and soil
is that coke is (uncountable|informal) cola-based soft drink while soil is (uncountable) a mixture of sand and organic material, used to support plant growth or soil can be (uncountable|euphemistic) faeces or urine etc when found on clothes or soil can be a wet or marshy place in which a boar or other such game seeks refuge when hunted.As a verb soil is
to make dirty or soil can be 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 purge by feeding on green food.coke
English
Etymology 1
Perhaps from (etyl) colke .Noun
(-)Derived terms
*biocokeVerb
Etymology 2
Originated circa 1908 in American English as a shortening of cocaine .Noun
(-)See also
* cocaEtymology 3
1909, from the name of the American company Coca-Cola'' and the beverage it produced; the drink was named for two of its original ingredients, ''coca'' leaves and ''cola nut.Synonyms
* (soft drink) see the list at (m)References
* http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=coke ----soil
English
(wikipedia soil)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), . See also (l), (l).Noun
- The refugees returned to their native soil .
- A lady's honour will not bear a soil .
- As deer, being stuck, fly through many soils , / Yet still the shaft sticks fast.
- night soil
- Improve land by dung and other sort of soils .
Synonyms
* dirt (US) , earthDerived terms
* home soil * native soil * soilless * soil pipe * topsoilSee also
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), (m), .Verb
(en verb)- Our wonted ornaments now soiled and stained.
- Light colours soil sooner than dark ones.
- (Shakespeare)
- Men soil their ground, not that they love the dirt, but that they expect a crop.
Synonyms
* (to make dirty) smirch, besmirch, dirtyDerived terms
* soil oneselfNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* dirtEtymology 3
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), .Etymology 4
(etyl) saoler, .Verb
(en verb)- to soil a horse