Soil vs Metal - What's the difference?
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(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.
(lb) Chemical elements or alloys, and the mines where their ores come from.
#Any of a number of chemical elements in the periodic table that form a metallic bond with other metal atoms; generally shiny, somewhat malleable and hard, often a conductor of heat and electricity.
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#*:But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ¶ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder. The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window.
#(lb) Any element other than hydrogen and helium,Majewski, S. R. (2003, 2006).
#Crushed rock, stones etc. used to make a road.
#(lb) The ore from which a metal is derived.
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#(lb) A mine from which ores are taken.
#*(Jeremy Taylor) (1613–1677)
#*:slavesand persons condemned to metals
(lb) A light tincture used in a coat of arms, specifically argent and or.
Molten glass that is to be blown or moulded to form objects.
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(lb) A category of rock music encompassing a number of genres (including thrash metal, death metal, heavy metal, etc.) characterized by strong, fast drum-beats and distorted guitars.
(lb) The substance that constitutes something or someone; matter; hence, character or temper; mettle.
*1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) , :
*:LEONATO. Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.
*:BEATRICE. Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be over-mastered with a piece of valiant dust?
The effective power or calibre of guns carried by a vessel of war.
The rails of a railway.
The actual airline operating a flight, rather than any of the codeshare operators.
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(music) Characterized by strong, fast drum-beats and distorted guitars.
Having the emotional or social characteristics associated with metal music; brash, bold, frank, unyielding, etc.
To make a road using crushed rock, stones etc.
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As nouns the difference between soil and metal
is that 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 while metal is heavy metal (music).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.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
Anagrams
* (l), (l), (l) ----metal
English
(wikipedia metal)Noun
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CHEMICAL ABUNDANCE EFFECTS ON SPECTRAL ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS]. ASTR 551 (Majewski) Lecture Notes.or sometimes other than hydrogen.Martin, J. C. (n.d.). [http://etacar.umn.edu/~martin/rrlyrae/metals.htm What we learn from a star's metal content
