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Definition: Subsoil |
SubsoilNoun1. The layer of soil between the topsoil and bedrock. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "subsoil" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | The upper part of the soil natural or constructed which supports the loads transmitted by the pavement. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Part of a soil between the layer normally used in tillage and the depth to which most plant roots grow. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: SubsoilSynonym: undersoil (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Interiority | Noun: interiority; inside, interior; interspace, subsoil, substratum; intrados. |
Land | Soil, glebe, clay, loam, marl, cledge, chalk, gravel, mold, subsoil, clod, clot; rock, crag. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Subsoil |
| English words defined with "subsoil": caliche ♦ hardpan, horizon ♦ Stonebrash ♦ tundra soil ♦ Understratum. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "subsoil": anodic zone ♦ capillary movement, continental margin ♦ Exclusive Economic Zone ♦ mole drains, moorband pan ♦ ortstein, outer continental shelf, overburden drilling ♦ permafrost drilling, pit quarry, podzolic layer ♦ recharging basin, Reddish Prairie soil, return flow ♦ site exploration, soakaway, spudding, spudding bit, subsoil drainage ♦ test bore, Tile Field. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Soil erosion in the cornfield on William Keefe's farm in Benton County, Indiana. Note subsoil, and gradation to fertile topsoil from left to right. This county has the best soil in the state. This field has been in hay or pasture six out of the last sixte. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The depth of the fontis varied, as well as its length, and its density by reason of the more or less yielding character of the subsoil. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Uzbekistan | The current mining regime is a Soviet era law on subsoil; U.S. mining companies are advocating a concession law. (references) |
Indigenous People | Peru | For those who do, there exists the problem that title to land does not include mineral or other subsoil rights; this condition could lead to conflicts between mining interests and indigenous communities. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Subsoil" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.74% of the time. "Subsoil" is used about 54 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 90.74% | 49 | 48,677 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 7.41% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.85% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 54 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "subsoil": subsoil pipe ♦ subsoil plow ♦ subsoil plow with mole drain ♦ subsoil water. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
subsoil | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "subsoil"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | taban (bed, crown, earth, pan, sole). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تحت الأرض, التحت التربة, أساس (armature, base, basis, bottom, crux, footing, foundation, fundament, ground, grounding, grounds, pedestal, roadbed, rock, structure, substratum, substructure). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | подпочва (substratum, undersoil). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 底土. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | spodní pùda. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | underjord, undergrund (underground), underbund (sub-base, subgrade), råjord. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | substraat (substrate), ondergrond minus verbeterde ondergrond (subgrade), ondergrond (bottom, foundation, ground, soil). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | زیرخاک , خاک زیرراشخم زدن , شخم عمیق زدن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | jankko. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sous-sol (subsurface). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Untergrund (background, key, subfont, substratum, undercoat, Underground). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | έδαφος εδράσεως (subgrade), έδαφος θεμελιώσεως (subgrade), υπέδαφοσ (underground), υπέδαφος. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | תשתית (base course, bed, foundation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fenékréteg, altalaj (subgrade, substrata, substrate, substratum, undersoil). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sottosuolo (basement, underground). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 底土 , 心土 , 下層土 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | そ"つち, し"ど (depth, elasticity, Japanese earthquake scale, progress), かそうど. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 심 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ooir wass, fo-ooir. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ubsoilsay subsolo (basement, cellar, roadbed, underground, undersoil). (various references) subsol (basement). (various references) подпочва (undersoil). (various references) plug za duboko oranje, dublji slojevi zemlje. (various references) subsuelo (underground). (various references) alv. (various references) toprakaltı (underground, undersoil). (various references) глибоко орати, надра (bosom, bowel, entrails), підгрунтя (substratum, underground). (various references) tầng đất cái. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "subsoil": subsoiled, subsoiler, subsoilers, subsoiling, subsoils. (additional references) | |
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"Subsoil" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: salsoul, subpool, subsi, subskill, subtil, sunsoil, Tsuboi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "subsoil" (pronounced su"bsoy'l) |
| 3 | -s oy' l | topsoil. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-i-l-o-s-s-u" | |
-2 letters: bliss, boils, bolus, louis, silos, slobs, slubs, soils, solus, souls. | |
-3 letters: bios, boil, boss, buss, libs, lobs, loss, obis, oils, sibs, silo, slob, slub, sobs, soil, soli, sols, soul, sous, subs. | |
-4 letters: bio, bis, bos, bus, lib, lis, lob, obi, oil, sib, sis, sob, sol, sos, sou, sub. | |
-5 letters: bi, bo, is, li, lo. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-i-l-o-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: subsoils. | |
+2 letters: blousiest, botulisms, strobilus, subfossil, subsocial, subsoiled, subsoiler. | |
+3 letters: absolutism, absolutist, dissoluble, insolubles, salubrious, solubilise, subfossils, sublations, subsoilers, subsoiling. | |
+4 letters: absolutions, absolutisms, absolutists, absolutizes, biliousness, boilersuits, botulinuses, brucellosis, copublishes, obliqueness, outblessing, solubilised, solubilises, solubilizes, subcolonies. | |
+5 letters: absolutistic, abstemiously, bibulousness, boisterously, combustibles, copublishers, indissoluble, indissolubly, insalubrious, isobutylenes, nebulosities, obsequiously, robustiously, salubriously, solubilising, solubilities, somnambulism, somnambulist, sublimations, sublittorals, subluxations, subsonically, subvocalizes, tuberculosis. | |
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