Soilless vs Oilless - What's the difference?
soilless | oilless |
Lacking home soil; dispossessed
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, passage=If they live in squalor, in filth, in crime, with hope and joy gone, a homeless, soilless army of human prey.}}
Not containing soil
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=October 4, author=Leslie Land, title=Garden Q.&A., work=New York Times
, passage=One popular recipe for a homemade version is two parts soilless mix like Pro-Mix and one part each vermiculite and perlite. }}
Lacking, or not using, oil.
*2011 , Rory Stewart, "Here we go again", London Review of Books , 33.VII:
*:Even oil-less , Central Asian Afghanistan was perceived by many Muslims as the object of a crusading infidel occupation, driven by Israel and designed to establish bases or extract cheaper oil.
As adjectives the difference between soilless and oilless
is that soilless is lacking home soil; dispossessed while oilless is lacking, or not using, oil.soilless
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