Soil vs Underground - What's the difference?
soil | underground |
(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.
(label) Below the ground; below the surface of the Earth.
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Of music, art, etc, outside the mainstream.
(chiefly, British) An underground railway.
A movement or organisation of people who resist political convention.
A movement or organisation of people who resist artistic convention.
To route electricity distribution cables underground
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As a noun 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.As a proper noun underground is
(uk|rail transport) the london underground.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) ----underground
English
Adjective
(en adjective)It's a gas, passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.}}
Synonyms
* (below the ground) subterranean * (hidden) clandestine, hidden, hush-hush, secret * (outside the mainstream) avant-garde, unconventionalSynonyms
* (below the ground) below ground * (secretly) clandestinely, in secret, on the quietNoun
(en noun) (wikipedia underground)Synonyms
* (underground railway) metro, (the underground railway of Paris), subway (US), Tube (British - the underground railway of London) * (movement or organisation of people who resist political convention) resistance * (movement or organisation of people who resist artistic convention) avant-garde, counter-cultureVerb
(en verb)citation, isbn=9781559635806 , page=325 , passage=One is to underground where no other alternative will work, and this method should be used universally in urban regions as it now is in “downtown” sections.}}
citation, isbn=9780309094511 , page=9 , passage=Also, undergrounding' may not eliminate the potential for crashes with other roadside objects, such as trees, walls, buildings, and so forth. [...] When looking at the fesibility of ' undergrounding utilities, the complete roadside area and nearby adjacent properties should be evaluated for potential roadside obstructions or hazards.}}
citation, isbn=9780824726317 , page=110 , passage=The utility now wants the network to be undergrounded in the urban areas, which would mean substations with 33 kV distribution swtichgear.}}
