dirt English
Alternative forms
* (obsolete)
Noun
( en-noun)
soil or earth
A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance
Previously unknown facts, or the invented "facts", about a person; gossip
- The reporter uncovered the dirt on the businessman by going undercover.
Meanness; sordidness.
* Melmoth
- honours thrown away upon dirt and infamy
In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
Derived terms
* dirt bike
* dirt nap
* dirty
* do someone dirt
Verb
( en verb)
(rare) To make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty
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debris English
Alternative forms
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Noun
(-)
Rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=December 21, author=David M. Halbfinger, Charles V. Bagli and Sarah Maslin Nir, title=On Ravaged Coastline, It’s Rebuild Deliberately vs. Rebuild Now, work=New York Times citation
, passage=His neighbors were still ripping out debris . But Mr. Ryan, a retired bricklayer who built his house by hand 30 years ago only to lose most of it to Hurricane Sandy, was already hard at work rebuilding. }}
Litter and discarded refuse.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Welcome to the plastisphere
, passage=[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].}}
The ruins of a broken-down structure
(geology) Large rock fragments left by a melting glacier etc.
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