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Soiling vs Dirt - What's the difference?

soiling | dirt |

As verbs the difference between soiling and dirt

is that soiling is present participle of lang=en while dirt is to make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty.

As nouns the difference between soiling and dirt

is that soiling is an act of making dirty while dirt is soil or earth.

As an acronym DIRT is

Deposit Interest Retention Tax

soiling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of making dirty.
  • * 2007 , Kirk-Othmer Chemical Technology and the Environment: Volume 1 (page 151)
    • An important task for any detergent is to remove visible soilings .

    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