Phonetic Breakdown of "soil"
Learn how to break down "soil" into its phonetic components. Understanding syllables and phonetics helps with pronunciation, spelling, and language learning.
Standard Phonetic Pronunciation:
/sɔɪl/
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IPA Phonetic Pronunciation:
S OY1 L
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Definition of "soil"
Pronunciation: /sɔɪl/
Noun
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A mixture of mineral particles and organic material, used to support plant growth.
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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.
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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.
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Country or territory.Example: "Kenyan soil"
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That which soils or pollutes; a stain.
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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.
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Dung; compost; manure.Example: "night soil"
Pronunciation: /sɔɪl/
Noun
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Faeces or urine etc. when found on clothes.
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A bag containing soiled items.
Verb
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To make dirty.
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To become dirty or soiled.Example: "Light colours soil sooner than dark ones."
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To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
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To dirty one's clothing by accidentally defecating while clothed.
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To make invalid, to ruin.
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To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
Pronunciation: /sɔɪl/
Noun
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A wet or marshy place in which a boar or other such game seeks refuge when hunted.
Pronunciation: /sɔɪl/
Verb
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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.Example: "to soil a horse"