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===Pronunciation===

* {{IPA|en|/sɔɪl̩/|[sɔɪ̯ɫ̩]}}

* {{rhymes|en|ɔɪl̩|s=1}}

 

 

# {{lb|en|uncountable}} A mixture of [[mineral]] [[particle]]s and [[organic]] material, used to support plant growth.

# {{lb|en|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.

# {{lb|en|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.

#* {{quote-book|en|year=1603|author=w:John Marston; w:John Webster|title=w:The Malcontent|section=act III, scene i|sectionurl=https://archive.org/stream/malcontent00mars_0#page/n37|passage=As Deere being ſtrucke flie thorow many '''ſoiles,''' / Yet ſtill the ſhaft ſitcks faſt, ſo ;}}

# Dung; compost; manure.

#* {{quote-book|en|year=1707|author=[[w:John Mortimer (agriculturalist)|J[ohn] Mortimer]]|chapter=Of Manuring, Dunging, and Soiling of Land|title=The Whole Art of Husbandry; Or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land|edition=2nd|location=London|publisher=J. H. for H. Mortlock, and J. Robinſon|year_published=1708|page=66|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=9nxZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA66|passage=HAving given you an Account of the way of ordering of Meadows, Paſtures and Arable Land, with ſeveral Sorts of Improvement of them ; I ſhall in the next place proceed to give an Account of the ſeveral ways uſed to improve Land by Manure, Dung, and other Sort of '''Soils.'''}}

 

|native soil

|racy of the soil

|soil nail

|soil pipe

|soil series

 

=====Related terms=====

* Icelandic: {{t+|is|jörð|f}}

* Indonesian: {{t+|id|tanah}}

* Italian: {{t+|it|suolo|m}}, {{t+|it|terra|f}}

* Japanese: {{t+|ja|土|tr=つち, tsuchi}}, {{t+|ja|土壌|tr=どじょう, dojō}}, {{t+|ja|地|tr=ち, chi}}

* Javanese: {{t+|jv|lemah}} {{qualifier|ngoko}}, {{t|jv|siti}} {{qualifier|krama}}

* Karachay-Balkar: {{t|krc|топракъ|tr=topraq}}, {{t|krc|топуракъ|tr=topuraq}}, {{t|krc|джер|tr=cer}}

* Khmer: {{t+|km|ដី}}

* Korean: {{t+|ko|흙}}, {{t+|ko|토양(土壤)}}

* Lao: {{t+|lo|ດິນ}}

* Latin: {{t+|la|humus}}

* Lithuanian: {{t|lt|dirva|f}}, {{t+|lt|žemė|f}}, {{t|lt|gruntas|m}}

* Low German: {{t|nds|Grund|m}}, {{t|nds|Eerd|f}}

* Lü: {{t|khb|ᦡᦲᧃ}}

* Malay: {{t+|ms|tanah}}

* Malayalam: {{t+|ml|മണ്ണ്}}

*: Bokmål: {{t+|nb|jord|m|f}}

*: Nynorsk: {{t|nn|jord|f}}

* Old Church Slavonic:

*: Cyrillic: {{t|cu|землꙗ|f}}

* Oromo: {{t|om|biyya}}, {{t+|om|biyyoo}}, {{t|om|dachee}}, {{t|om|lafa}}

* Pashto: {{t+|ps|خاوره|f|tr=xāwra}}

* Persian: {{t+|fa|خاک|tr=xâk}}, {{t+|fa|زَمین|tr=zamin}}

* Slovak: {{t|sk|pôda|f}}, {{t+|sk|zem|f}}

* Slovene: {{t+|sl|zemlja|f}}, {{t+|sl|prst|f}}

* Spanish: {{t+|es|suelo|m}}

* Swahili: {{t+|sw|mchanga}}

* Tabasaran: {{t|tab|руг}}

* Tagalog: {{t+|tl|lupa}}, {{t|tl|sulip}}

* Taos: {{t|twf|ną̀méne}}

* Tarifit: {{t|rif|šar|m}}

* Turkmen: {{t|tk|toprak}}

* Ukrainian: {{t+|uk|земля́|f}}, {{t+|uk|ґрунт|m}}

* Uyghur: {{t|ug|تۇپراق}}

* Uzbek: {{t+|uz|tuproq}}

* Fula: {{t|ff|leydi}}

* Greek: {{t+|el|έδαφος|n}}

* Norman: {{t|nrf|tèrre|f}}

* Persian: {{t+|fa|خاک}}

 

# {{lb|en|transitive}} To make [[dirty]].

# {{lb|en|intransitive}} To become dirty or soiled.

# {{lb|en|transitive|figurative}} To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to [[sully]].

#* {{RQ:Shakespeare Hamlet Q1-2|version=Q2|act=I|scene=iv|passage={{...}}They [[clepe|clip]] vs drunkards, and with [[swinish|Swiniſh]] phraſe / '''Soyle''' our [[addition]], and indeede it takes / From our atchieuements, though perform’d at [[height]] / The pith and marrow of our attribute{{...}}}}

# {{lb|en|reflexive}} To dirty one's clothing by accidentally defecating while clothed.

# To make invalid, to ruin.

# To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.

* Latin: {{t|la|spurco}}, {{t|la|foedō}}, {{t|la|polluo}}

* Macedonian: {{t|mk|валка}}

* Persian: {{t|fa|خاکی کردن|tr=xâki kardan}}

* Polish: {{t+|pl|brudzić}}

 

# 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 (due to such food having the effect of purging them) to purge by feeding on green food.

 

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