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Pebble vs Soil - What's the difference?

pebble | soil |

As nouns the difference between pebble and soil

is that pebble is a small stone, especially one rounded by the action of water 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 verbs the difference between pebble and soil

is that pebble is to pave with pebbles while 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.

pebble

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small stone, especially one rounded by the action of water.
  • * Shakespeare
    • the pebbles on the hungry beach
  • * Milton
    • children gathering pebbles on the shore
  • (geology) A particle from 4 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
  • (curling) A small droplet of water intentionally sprayed on the ice that cause irregularities on the surface.
  • Transparent and colourless rock crystal.
    • Brazilian pebble

    Verb

  • To pave with pebbles.
  • (curling) To deposit water droplets on the ice. e.g. to pebble the ice between games.

    • soil

    English

    (wikipedia soil)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), (m), . See also (l), (l).

    Noun

  • (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.
    • The refugees returned to their native soil .
  • That which soils or pollutes; a stain.
  • * Dryden
    • A lady's honour will not bear a soil .
  • 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
    • As deer, being stuck, fly through many soils , / Yet still the shaft sticks fast.
  • Dung; compost; manure.
    • night soil
  • * Mortimer
    • Improve land by dung and other sort of soils .
    Synonyms
    * dirt (US) , earth
    Derived terms
    * home soil * native soil * soilless * soil pipe * topsoil
    Related terms
    * solum
    See also
    *

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), (m), .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make dirty.
  • * Milton
    • Our wonted ornaments now soiled and stained.
  • To become dirty or soiled.
    • Light colours soil sooner than dark ones.
  • (figurative) To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • (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
    • Men soil their ground, not that they love the dirt, but that they expect a crop.
    Synonyms
    * (to make dirty) smirch, besmirch, dirty
    Derived terms
    * soil oneself

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (uncountable, euphemistic) Faeces or urine etc. when found on clothes.
  • (countable, medicine) A bag containing soiled items.
    • Synonyms
    * dirt

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A wet or marshy place in which a boar or other such game seeks refuge when hunted.

    • Etymology 4

    (etyl) saoler, .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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.
    • to soil a horse
    (Webster 1913)

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