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Dirt vs Unsoiling - What's the difference?

dirt | unsoiling |

As nouns the difference between dirt and unsoiling

is that dirt is soil or earth while unsoiling is the act or process of stripping the surface of dirt or soil from the top of a quarry, claybed, etc.

As a verb dirt

is to make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty.

As an acronym DIRT

is Deposit Interest Retention Tax

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

    • unsoiling

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The act or process of stripping the surface of dirt or soil from the top of a quarry, claybed, etc.