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Uncountable vs Dirt - What's the difference?

uncountable | dirt |

As nouns the difference between uncountable and dirt

is that uncountable is (linguistics) an uncountable noun while dirt is animal.

As an adjective uncountable

is so many as to be incapable of being counted.

uncountable

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (linguistics) An uncountable noun.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • So many as to be incapable of being counted.
    • The reasons for our failure were as uncountable as the grains of sand on a beach.
  • (mathematics) Incapable of being put into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers or any subset thereof.
    • Cantor’s “diagonal proof” shows that the set of real numbers is uncountable .
  • (grammar, of a noun) Describes a meaning of a noun that cannot be used freely with numbers or the indefinite article, and which therefore takes no plural form. Example: information .
    • Many languages do not distinguish countable nouns from uncountable nouns.
    One meaning in law of the supposedly uncountable noun "information" is used in the plural and is countable.

    Antonyms

    * countable

    Hypernyms

    * (set theory) infinite

    Derived terms

    * uncountable noun * uncountable set * uncountably

    See also

    * (mathematics) infinite * (mathematics) innumerable * (linguistics) mass noun * (linguistics) singulare tantum *

    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