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Definition: Dirt |
DirtAdjective1. Made of packed earth or gravel; "a dirt road". 2. (of roads) not leveled or drained; unsuitable for all year travel. Noun1. The part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock. 2. The state of being covered with unclean things. 3. Obscene terms for feces. 4. Disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dirt" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Dirt Design In Real Time. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of seeing freshly stirred dirt around flowers or trees, denotes thrift and healthful conditions abound for the dreamer. To see your clothes soiled with unclean dirt, you will be forced to save yourself from contagious diseases by leaving your home or submitting to the strictures of the law. To dream that some one throws dirt upon you, denotes that enemies will try to injure your character. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Environment | Solid pollutant perceptable or visible with the naked eye and which can be removed by cleaning; cf. litter, dust. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | General term for any small particles of foreign matter sticking to the surface. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A cluster of fine seed caused by the deposition of foreign matter on the hot glass during forming. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Literature | Dirt is matter in the wrong place. (Lord Palmerston.) This is not true: a diamond or sovereign lost on a road is matter in a wrong place, but certainly is not dirt. Throw plenty of dirt and some will be sure to stick. Scandal always leaves a trail behind. Dirt cheap. Very low-priced. Dirt is so cheap that persons pay others to take it away. To eat dirt is to put up with insults and mortification. An Eastern method of punishment. "If dirt were trumps what a capital hand you Would hold!" - Charles Lamb to Martin Burney. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Multilingual Slang | Polish (syf). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Dirt can refer to several things:
- Soil in the ground
- Dirt, an album by Alice in Chains.
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DIRT has a number of meanings.DIRT is an anarcho-punk band that were formed during the early 1980s. DIRT, Deposit Interest Retention Tax, is a controversial form of tax on interest earned on bank accounts in the Republic of Ireland that was first introduced in the 1980s. In the late 1990s a parliamentary inquiry under Jim Mitchell, TD, established the existence of a culture of tax evasion within Irish banks, which had allowed wealthy customers to set up off-shore (ie, international) bank accounts into which money was transferred, enabling the account holder to avoid paying DIRT. (Such accounts in theory should only have been set up by residents living abroad.) Thousands of tax-evaders were prosecuted as were leading banks, producing hundreds of millions of Irish pounds of the Irish Exchequer through financial settlements and fines.
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Dirt is a grunge album by Alice in Chains, released in October of 1992 (see 1992 in music).
The band's breakthrough album, Dirt is widely regarded as Alice in Chains' best album, and classic from the golden age of grunge. Recorded while lead singer Layne Staley was suffering through a heroin addiction, the album's gloomy, drug-addicted music helped turn it into a hit, reaching #6 on Billboard's 200 albums chart.
The songs "Sickman", "Junkhead", and "Dirt" are based on Staley's experiences with heroin. The song "Rooster" is based on the experiences of Jerry Cantrell's father, who fought in the Vietnam war; the name was his nickname as a soldier.
"Iron Gland", the untitled track before "Hate to Feel", features vocals by Tom Araya of Slayer, who the band brought in so he could provide an Angel of Death scream.
Track listing
"Iron Gland" is also known as "Intro (Dream Sequence)". Some versions feature "Down in a Hole" as the second last track.
- "Them Bones" (Cantrell) - 2:30
- "Dam That River" (Cantrell) - 3:09
- "Rain When I Die" (Cantrell/Kinney/Staley/Starr) - 6:01
- "Down in a Hole" (Cantrell) - 5:38
- "Sickman" (Cantrell/Staley) - 5:29
- "Rooster" (Cantrell) - 6:15
- "Junkhead" (Cantrell/Staley) - 5:09
- "Dirt" (Cantrell/Staley) - 5:16
- "God Smack" (Cantrell/Staley) - 3:50
- Untitled ("Iron Gland") (Staley) - :43
- "Hate to Feel" (Staley) - 5:16
- "Angry Chair" (Staley) - 4:47
- "Would?" (Cantrell) - 3:27
Personnel
- Alice in Chains - Producer
- Tom Araya - Vocals on "Iron Gland"
- Jerry Cantrell - Guitar, Vocals
- Bryan Carlstrom - Engineer
- Annette Cisneros - Assistant Engineer, Mixing Assistant
- Dave Jerden - Producer, Mixing
- Sean Kinney - Drums
- Eddy Schreyer - Mastering
- Layne Staley - Guitar, Vocals
- Mike Starr - Bass
- Ulrich Wild - Assistant Engineer
- Rocky Schenck - Photography
- Mary Maurer - Art Direction
- Doug Erb - Design
- Steve Hall - Mastering
Charting singles
1992 Them Bones Mainstream Rock Tracks No. 24 1992 Them Bones Modern Rock Tracks No. 30 1993 Angry Chair Mainstream Rock Tracks No. 34 1993 Rooster Mainstream Rock Tracks No. 7 1993 Angry Chair Modern Rock Tracks No. 27 1993 Down In A Hole Mainstream Rock Tracks No. 10 1994 Down In A Hole Mainstream Rock Tracks No. 11 1996 Would? Mainstream Rock Tracks No. 19Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dirt (album)."
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Soil is the layer of minerals and organic matter, in thickness from from centimeters to a meter or more, on the land surface. Its main components are mineral matter, organic matter, moisture, and air. Soils differ in the ratio of these components.
Minerals in soil are obtained from a variety of sources, but the process which delivers the bulk is weathering of rocks. Weathering is the actions of wind, rain, ice, sunlight, and biological processes on rocks that break them down into smaller particles.
Weathering also releases ions such as K+ and Mg2+ in to the soil solution. Some of these ions are taken up by plants, but the majority not left in solution are absorbed through ion exchange by clays such as montmorillonite. When the level of ions is low in the soil an equilibrium process forces ions back into solution, where they can be used by plants.
However if acid is introduced into soil, hydrogen ions bind in preference to clays, forcing ions out where they can be washed away during rain. Acidity also encourages the weathering of clays, releasing toxic aluminium ions (of which clays are composed) into the solution. To stop this occurring farmers apply alkalic materials such as slaked-lime.
Although there exists plenty of elements such as nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus necessary for plant growth in soil, very little of this is in a form which plants can use. In processes such as nitrification and mineralisation, bacteria and other organisms convert unusable forms (such as NH4+) in to usable forms (such as NO3-). The raw products are initially present as gases in the atmosphere. Processes such as the nitrogen cycle and carbon cycle continually exchange nutrients between the soil and atmosphere.
The organic store in soil is made up of plant debris, animal excreta and other decomposing materials. A lot of the carbon compounds react to form humus, which is composed of very large molecules including esters of carboxylic acid, phenolic compounds and derivatives of benzene. Organic materia in soil provides nutrients necessary for plant growth.
See also; soil life, Soil pH, Soil types, Soil profile, Soil structure
The following text is taken from the Household Cyclopedia of 1881, and should be updated and integrated with the above article:
Soils consist mostly of sand, lime, and clay, with certain saline and organic substances in smaller and varying proportions; but the examination of the ashes of plants shows that a fertile soil must of necessity contain an appreciable quantity of at least eleven different substances, which in most cases exist in greater or less relative abundance in the ash of cultivated plants; and of these the proportions are not by any means immaterial. In general, the soils which are made up of the most various materials are called alluvial; having been formed from the depositions of floods and rivers. Many of them are extremely fertile. Soils consist of two parts; of an organic part, which can readily be burned away when the surface-soil is heated to redness; and of an inorganic part, which remains fixed in the fire, consisting of earthy and saline substances from which, if carbonic acid or any elastic gas be present, it may, however, be driven by the heat. The organic part of soils is derived chiefly from the remains of vegetables and animals which have lived and died in and upon the soil, which have been spread over it by rivers and rains, or which have been added by the industry of man for the purposes of increased fertility.
This organic part varies much in quantity, as well as quality, in different soils. In peaty soils it is very abundant, as well as in some rich, long cultivated lands. In general, it rarely amounts to one-fourth, or 25 per cent. even in our best arable lands. Good wheat soils contain often as little as eight parts in the hundred of organic animal or vegetable matter; oats and rye will grow in a soil containing only 1 1/2 per cent.; and barley when only two or three parts per cent. are present.
The inorganic portion of any given soil, again, is divisible into two portions; that part which is soluble in water, and thus easily taken up by plants, and a much more bulky portion which is insoluble.
Sir Humphry Davy found the following to be the composition of a good productive soil.
Thus the whole amount of organic matter in this instance is only 1 part in 200, or one-half of one per cent.; a fact which, in itself, would demonstrate the fallacy of supposing that decomposed animal and vegetable matter in the soil form the exclusive supply to growing plants.
- In every 9 parts, 8 consisted of siliceous sand;
- the remaining (one-ninth) part was composed, in 100 parts, as follows:
- Carbonate of lime (chalk) 63 grains.
- Pure silex 15 grains.
- Pure alumina, or the earth of clay 11 grains.
- Oxide (rust) of iron 3 grains.
- Vegetable and other saline matter 5 grains.
- Moisture and loss 3 grains.
Clayey soil
A clayey soil, though distinguished by the color which it bears, namely black, white, yellow and red, differs from all other soils, being tough, wet, and cold, and consequently requiring a good deal of labor from the husbandman before it can be sufficiently pulverized, or placed in a state for bearing artificial crops of corn or grass. Clay land is known by the following qualities, or properties.
It holds water like a cup, and once wetted does not soon dry. In like manner, when thoroughly dry, it is not soon wetted; if we except the varieties which have a thin surface, and are the worst of all to manage. In a dry summer, clay cracks and shows a surface full of small chinks, or openings. If ploughed in a wet state, it sticks to the plough like mortar, and in a dry summer, the plough turns it up in great clods, scarcely to be broken or separated by the heaviest roller.
Clayey soils, when sufficiently enriched with manures, are naturally well qualified for carrying crops of wheat, oats, beans, and clover; but are not fitted for barley, turnips, potatoes, etc., or even for being kept under for grass longer than one year. Such soils ought to be regularly summer-fallowed once in six, or at least once in eight years, even when they are comparatively in a clean state, as they contract a sourness and adhesion from wet ploughing, only to be removed by exposure to the sun and wind during the dry months of summer. Soils of this kind receive little benefit from winter ploughing, unless so far as their surface is thereby presented to the frost, which mellows and reduces them in a manner infinitely superior to what could be accomplished by all the operations of man. Still they are not cleaned or made free of weeds by winter ploughing; and therefore this operation can only be considered as a good means for producing a seed-bed, in which the seeds of the future crop may be safely deposited. Hence the necessity of cleansing clay soils during the summer months, and of having always a large part of every clay farm under summer fallow. All clayey soils require great industry and care, as well as a considerable portion of knowledge in dressing or management to keep them in good condition; yet when their natural toughness is got the better of, they always yield the heaviest and most abundant crops. One thing requisite for a clayey soil, is to keep it rich and full of manure; a poor clay being the most ungrateful of all soils, and hardly capable of repaying the expense of labor, after being worn out and exhausted. A clayey soil also receives, comparatively, smell benefit from grass; and when once allowed to get into a sterile condition, the most active endeavors will with difficulty restore fertility to it after the lapse of many years.
Upon light soils the case is very different. These flourish under the grass husbandry; and bare summer fallow is rarely required, because they may be cleaned and cropped in the same year with that valuable esculent, turnip. Upon light soils, however, wheat can seldom be extensively cultivated; nor can a crop be obtained of equal value, either in respect to quantity or quality, as on clay sand loams. The best method of procuring wheat on light lands, is to sow upon a clover stubble, when the soil has got an artificial solidity of body and is thereby rendered capable of sustaining the grain till it arrives at maturity. The same observation applies to soils of a gravelly nature; and upon both barley is generally found of as great benefit as wheat.
Thin clays and peat earths are more friendly to the growth of oats than of other grains, though in favorable seasons a heavy crop of wheat may be obtained from a thin clayey soil, when it has been completely summer-fallowed and enriched with dung. A first application of calcareous manure is generally accompanied with great advantage upon these soils; but when once the effect of this application is over, it can hardly be repeated a second time, unless the land has been very cautiously managed after the first dressing. Neither of these soils is friendly to grass, yet there is a necessity of exercising this husbandry with them, because they are incapable of standing the plough more than a year or two in the course of a rotation.
Wheat ought to be the predominant crop upon all the rich clays and strong loams, and light soils of every kind are well qualified for turnips, barley, etc. Upon the thin and moorish soils, oats must necessarily preserve a prominent rank, and grass seeds may be cultivated upon every one of them, though with different degrees of advantage, according to the natural and artificial richness of each soil, or to the qualities which it possesses for encouraging the growth of clover, in the first instance, and preserving the roots of the plant afterwards.
See also : pedology -- pedogenesis -- soil degradation --soil remediation -- FAO - Soil Unit Classification Scheme -- derelict soil
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Soil."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
DIRT | English | Data Interception by Remote Transmission | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: DirtSynonyms: gravel (adj), graveled (adj), ungraded (adj), crap (n), filth (n), grease (n), grime (n), grunge (n), malicious gossip (n), poop (n), scandal (n), shit (n), shite (n), soil (n), stain (n), turd (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Blemish | Tarnish, smudge; dirt. |
Cheapness | Adjective: cheap; low, low priced; moderate, reasonable; inexpensive, unexpensive; well worth the money, worth the money; magnifique et pas cher; good at the price, cheap at the price; dirt cheap, dog cheap; cheap, cheap as dirt, cheap and nasty; catchpenny;discounted. |
Deterioration | Deteriorate; weaken; put back, set back; taint, infect, contaminate, poison, empoison, envenom, canker, corrupt, exulcerate, pollute, vitiate, inquinate; debase, embase; denaturalize, denature, leaven; deflower, debauch, defile, deprave, degrade; ulcerate; stain; (dirt); discolor; alloy, adulterate, sophisticate, tamper with, prejudice. |
Detraction | Fling dirt; (disrespect); anathematize; dip the pen in gall, view in a bad light. |
Disrepute | Impute shame to, brand, post, stigmatize, vilify, defame, slur, cast a slur upon, hold up to shame, send to Coventry; tread under foot, trample under foot; show up, drag through the mire, heap dirt upon; reprehend. |
Disrespect | Speak slightingly of; disparage; (dispraise); vilipend, vilify, call names; throw dirt, fling dirt; drag through the mud, point at, indulge in personalities; make mouths, make faces; bite the thumb; take by the beard; pluck by the beard; toss in a blanket, tar and feather. |
Journey | Vehicle; automobile, train, bus, airplane, plane, autobus, omnibus, subway, motorbike, dirt bike, off-road vehicle, van, minivan, motor scooter',trolley, locomotive; legs, feet, pegs, pins, trotters. |
Submission | Eat dirt, eat the leek, eat humble pie; bite the dust, lick the dust; be at one's feet, fall at one's feet; craven; crouch before, throw oneself at the feet of; swallow the leek, swallow the pill; kiss the rod; turn the other cheek; avaler les couleuvres, gulp down. |
Uncleanness | Render unclean; Adjective: dirt, dirty; daub, blot, blur, smudge, smutch, soil, smoke, tarnish, slaver, spot, smear; smirch; begrease;dabble, drabble, draggle, daggle; spatter, slubber; besmear; bemire, beslime, begrime, befoul; splash, stain, distain, maculate, sully, pollute, defile, debase, contaminate, taint, leaven; corrupt; (injure); cover with dust; Noun: drabble in the mud; roil. |
Dirt, filth, soil, slop; dust, cobweb, flue; smoke, soot, smudge, smut, grit, grime, raff; sossle, sozzle. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Dirt |
| English words defined with "dirt": begrimed, Bemoil, bespattered, besplashed, black, blot, bocce, bocci, boccie, Bysmottered ♦ carpet sweeper, clean, cleanness, Cuttoo plate ♦ daub, detergent, dingy, Dirt bed, dirt cheap, dirty, dust bag ♦ filth, filthiness, foulness, fuel filter, fuel line ♦ gas line, Geophagism, Geophagist, gravel, graveled, grimy, grubby, grungy ♦ hit the deck, hit the dirt ♦ landslide, landslip, Limber clearer, Lister, lister plough, lister plow ♦ make clean, middle buster, middlebreaker, Mullock, Mux, mysophobia, mysophobic ♦ nastiness ♦ pan, pan off, pan out, pick, pristine, Pumice soap ♦ raunchy, Reechy, rinse, rinse off ♦ Saur, Sentine, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, soiled, spattered, splashed, spot, sweeper ♦ unclean, unimproved ♦ vacuum bag ♦ wash, wash away, wash off, wash out, water waggon, water wagon. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "dirt": Rupia. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I'd rather eat dirt! (Steel Magnolias; writing credit: Robert Harling) I just assumed you curled up with a handful of dirt from your homeland and waited 'til dawn (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro) The other day I was so desperate for a beer that I snuck in the football stadium and ate the dirt under the bleachers (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Being miserable and treating other people like dirt is every New Yorker's God-given right (Ghostbusters II; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.) I would eat dirt before I'd ever let Renamon become what you are a montser (Digimon: Digital Monsters; writing credit: Dayna Barron) | |
Lyrics | I'm so clean, too bad I can't get all the dirt off of me. (Falling For The First Time; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies) But all she wants to do is rub my face in the dirt. (I Can't Dance; performing artist: Genesis) Was hurtin 'em in the home of the Terrapins; got it dirt cheap for them (Izzo (H.O.V.A.); performing artist: Jay-Z) You were so caught up doing your dirt (Don't Think I'm Not; performing artist: Kandi) If I recollect right then you sound like dirt (Saturday (Oooh! Oooh!); performing artist: Ludacris) | |
Clever | A man who throws dirt loses ground. (references; author: unknown) Parental Observation: A young child is a noise with dirt on it. (references; author: unknown) Anyone can make a mountain out of a molehill by throwing on more dirt. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Dirt Gang (1972) In the Dirt (1972) Dirt (1939) Goodrich Dirt in the Dark and Stormy Night (1918) Coin Collector Goodrich Dirt (1918) | |
Song Titles | Stronger Than Dirt (performing artist: Ted and the Talltops Roddy) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Schmitt Covered with Lunar Dirt. Credit: NASA. |  | Clattering down a dirt road White 1 and 1/2 ton truck Astro party of C.V. Hodgson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | "Bush Pilot" taking off with a 727 from the dirt strip at Kotzebue, Alaska A short time after the runway was paved. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Using dynamite to excavate a bench mark hole Note dirt flying out of hole Level party of H. J. Oliver. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | C-17 Globemaster III lands on dirt runway. |  | Rodeo 2000- C-130 dirt landing. |
 | Landsailers ready their dirt boats on the Black Rock Desert playa, near Gerlach, Nevada. Credit: Mike Bilbo. |  | Dirt road leading into the horizen of the blue sky at the Parashant National Monument. Credit: Lynn Chamberlain. |
 | Dirt bike rider jumping his bike over a small hill in the rangeland. Credit: Unknown. |  | A dirt road runs through the Clover Creek area. Credit: Unknown. |
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| "Dirt road" by Jan Tautenhahn Commentary: "Traffic sign on a dirt road in djerba, tunisia. double curve." | "Dirt Road Sunset" by Paige Foster Commentary: "Sun setting behind a little white building in a field next to a dirt road." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Play | Caption |
 | Man digging in the dirt with a shovel. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Bhagavad Gita | To the illumined man or woman, a clod of dirt, a stone, and gold are the same. |
George Eliot | Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it. |
John Heywood | The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt. |
Oscar Wilde | Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt. |
William Hazlitt | Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Just think of the dirt that all that makes in the till |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Tom took off his coat and dropped it on the dirt pile |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | It was dark, and had a dirt floor for the most part, dank, clammy, and aguish, only here a board and there a board which would not bear removal |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The most severe cases are rare, but are more likely to occur in young children, who often play in dirt, or eat dirt (pica) contaminated by dog or cat stool. (references) | |
Children --because they play in dirt and often go barefoot-- are at high risk. Since transmission of hookworm infection requires development of the larvae in soil, hookworm cannot be spread person to person. (references) | ||
Once indoors, people should check themselves and their children for ticks, particularly in the hairy regions of the body. The immature deer ticks that are most likely to cause Lyme disease are only about the size of a poppy seed, so they are easily mistaken for a freckle or a speck of dirt. All clothing should be washed. (references) | ||
Economic History | Iceland | The current national road system connecting most of the population centers is largely in the coastal areas and consists of about 12,177 kilometers (7,565 mi.) of dirt and gravel roads and about 1,150 kilometers (714 mi.) of hard-surfaced roads. (references) |
Human Rights | Pakistan | Such cells often have dirt floors and no furnishings. (references) |
Dominican Republic | Inmates who cannot afford to pay for beds are forced to sleep on the floor; these inmates are known as "frogs" because they sleep in the dirt. (references) | |
Travel | Bolivia | Bolivia has 53,153 Km of roads, of which only 2,933 Km are paved, 16,380 are gravel and 33,840 are dirt roads. (references) |
Peru | The Ministry of Transport, Communication, Housing and Construction (MTC) estimates the total road network has 16,966 km: 8,140 km paved; 6,640 km unpaved; and 2,186 km of dirt roads. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Dirt" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.84% of the time. "Dirt" is used about 944 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) | 98.84% | 933 | 7,741 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.85% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.32% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 944 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "dirt". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Hamor | N/A | Biblical | Dirt |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "dirt": be dirt cheap ♦ cast dirt at smb. ♦ cheap as dirt ♦ common as dirt ♦ dirt ball ♦ dirt band ♦ Dirt bed ♦ dirt cheap ♦ Dirt eating ♦ dirt parting ♦ Dirt pie ♦ dirt road ♦ dirt track ♦ do smb. dirt ♦ eat dirt ♦ fling dirt at smb. ♦ heap dirt upon ♦ hit the dirt ♦ pay dirt ♦ speak of dirt ♦ strike pay dirt ♦ throw dirt at smb. ♦ To eat dirt ♦ treat smb. like dirt ♦ yellow dirt. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "dirt": dirt-beaten, dirt-box, dirt-cheap, dirt-coloured, dirt-darkened, dirt-digging, dirt-disposing, dirt-encrusted, dirt-farmers, dirt-filled, dirt-free, dirt-path, dirt-poor, dirt-proof, dirt-resistance, dirt-ridden, dirt-smeared, dirt-streaked, dirt-strewn, dirt-track, dirt-trackers, dirt-tracking. | |
Ending with "dirt": dog-dirt, high-dirt, history-dirt, mega-dirt, red-dirt, road-dirt, sheep-dirt, sleep-dirt, worm-dirt. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
dirt bike | 9,305 | cheap dirt bike | 164 |
cheaper than dirt | 950 | dirt bike accessory | 157 |
used dirt bike | 939 | dirt bike game | 150 |
dirt devil | 762 | kawasaki dirt bike | 146 |
dirt bike for sale | 756 | suzuki dirt bike | 139 |
dirt bike part | 546 | dirt bike helmet | 137 |
dirt wheels | 509 | pic of dirt bike | 137 |
honda dirt bike | 487 | cheap dirt rim | 128 |
joe dirt | 481 | dirt lyrics red road | 127 |
dirt | 465 | dirt racing | 123 |
dirt track racing | 465 | dirt bike gear | 121 |
yamaha dirt bike | 387 | dirt bike racing | 113 |
picture of dirt bike | 361 | dirt bike kid | 107 |
dirt red road | 303 | mini dirt bike | 104 |
dirt cake | 282 | dirt cheap | 103 |
nitty gritty dirt band | 247 | daytona dirt | 103 |
dirt track | 177 | dirt cheap cigarette | 99 |
dirt cake recipe | 173 | dirt bike magazine | 99 |
used dirt bike for sale | 171 | dirt doctor | 97 |
daily dirt | 169 | ktm dirt bike | 96 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "dirt"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | baltë (clay, foulness, mire, muck, mud, muddiness, ooze, silt, slime, slob, soil). (various references) | |
Arabic | نميمة (gossip, scandal, talebearing, talk, tattle), قذارة (dirtiness, filth, filthiness, foulness, impurity, infection, squalor, uncleanliness, uncleanness), قذر (augean, beastly, contaminated, crummy, defiled, dingy, dirty, disreputable, dungy, filthy, foul, ghoulish, grimy, grubby, impure, lousy, mean, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene, pig, piggish, polluted, rubbishy, sinful, slattern, slatternly, slob, sloppy, slovenly, smutty, soil, sordid, squalid, unclean, uncleanly, untidy, verminous, vile), وحل (bespatter, clay, mire, mud, muddling, muddy, ooze, quaggy, silt, slime, slob), غائط (dejection, evacuation, excrement, movement, turd), رجس (atrocity, be dirty, filth, squalor), بذاءة (bawdiness, dirtiness, filth, filthiness, foulness, immodesty, impropriety, impurity, indecency, lewdness, nastiness, obscenity, ribaldry, smut, sordidness). (various references) | |
Blackfoot | ksááhko. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | мръсни думи, подъл (base, blackguardly, caitiff, creeping, dastardly, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, dirty, dishonorable, dishonourable, jesuitic, jesuitical, low, low down, low-minded, mean, mean-spirited, miscreant, recreant, reptile, scurvy, shabby, snaky, sneaking, sneaky, snide, vile, villainous), порнография (porn, pornography), пръст (clay, clod, digit, earth, finger, hand, marl, mould, soil, toe), боклук (dross, dud, fug, garbage, junk heap, litter, mullock, odd-come-shorts, punk, raffle, rubbish, scrap heap, shoddy, spilth, trash, tripe, waste), златоносен пясък (gravel, lead, wash), злословия, изпражнения (dejecta, evacuations, excrement, faeces, matter, ordure, rejectamenta, slops, soil, stools, waste), мръсен (bawdy, currish, dingy, dirty, filthy, foul, frowzy, greasy, grimy, hoggish, impure, messy, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene, piggish, raunchy, ruddy, salacious, sleazy, sordid, squalid, unclean, unwashed, vile), скална маса, мръсотия (beastliness, dirtiness, filth, foulness, grime, impurity, mess, muck, mud, obscenity, offscourings, ordure, squalor), нечистотия (dirtiness, filthiness, grime, impurity, manginess), кир (filth, grime), кал (mire, muck, mud, ooze, slime, slob, slop), цинизми (filthiness, smut), смет (dust, litter, mullock, offal, raffle, refuse, rejectamenta, rubbish, sweepings), земя (acres, clod, earth, estate, geo, ground, land, mainland, mould, soil). (various references) | |
Chinese | 穢 (filth), 垢 (disgrace), 埃 (angstrom, dust), 土, 污 (filth), 塵 (dust, earth). (various references) | |
Czech | trus (droppings), pomluvy (gossip, scandal), neèistota (grime, impurity), lejno, klepy (gossip, tattle), exkrement (excrement), bláto (mire, muck, mud, ooze), špína (filth, filthiness, grime, impurity, soil, squalor). (various references) | |
Danish | snavs (filth). (various references) | |
Dutch | vuil (clippings, cuttings, debris, dirty, filth, filthy, foul, nasty, parings, refuse, rubbish, rubble, soiled, unclean, waste, windfall). (various references) | |
Faeroese | skittur (filth, mud), runa (mud, slime), móra (mud, slime). (various references) | |
Farsi | چرک (Dingy, Dirty, Frowzy, Guck, Impure, Lymph, Pus, Puss, Slag, Sordid, Squawk), کثافت (Guck, Impurity, Jakes, Mire, Muck, Pollution, Smooch, Sully), لکه (Blob, Blot, Blotch, Blur, Dot, Freckle, Gall, Glob, Pip, Smear, Smooch, Smudge, Smut, Splotch, Spot, Stain, Taint), خاک (Clod, Dust, Earth, Grit, Ground, Land, Soil, Terrafirma, Territory). (various references) | |
Finnish | loka (mud), lika (filth). (various references) | |
French | crasse (dirtiness), boue. (various references) | |
Frisian | dridze (mud, slime), drek (mud, slime), modder (ground, mud, slime, soil), labze (mud), blabze (mud, slime), blabber (mud, slime). (various references) | |
German | schmutz (dirtiness, dung, filth, grime, grimes, muck, mud, ordure, smudginess, smut, sordidness, squalor), Dreck (filth, jam, mess, muck, muckiness, mud, raunchiness, rubbish, scruffiness, smut), Kot (excrement, feces, filth, mire, muck, mud, ordure). (various references) | |
Greek | ρύποσ (filth, grime), σκόνη (dust, powder), βρώμα (fetish, filth, stench, stink), βρωμιά (foulness, squalidity, squalidness, squalor), νέφος φυσαλίδων (feather), χώμα (earth, ground, soil), ακαθαρσίες (grit, inclusion), ακαθαρσία (filth, impureness, impurity, lousiness, ordure, soil). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | baltë (mud, slime). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ליכלוך, לכלוך (dinginess, dirtiness, filth, nastiness, soiling, sordidness, squalor, stain), עפר (dust, earth, soil), חלאה (filth, refuse), אשפה (dung, dunghill, garbage, litter, refuse, rubbish, sweepings, trash, waste), טנופת (filth, filthiness, foulness, muck), טנוף (filth), סחי (dung, filth, rubbish), סאבון (defilement, impurity). (various references) | |
Hungarian | piszok (black, bleeding, blemish, crap, crock, dreck, filth, grime, grunch, grunge, gunk, muck, scuz, scuzz, smudge), talaj (ground, land, soil, standing-ground), szenny (filth, grime, muck, scuz, scuzz, squalor), salak (cinder, clinker, dross, recrement, scale, scum, slag, sludge), sár (mess-up, mire, mud, ooze, slob, slobber, sludge, splash), föld (clime, clod, earth, ground, land, soil, Terra), ürülék (defecation, dejecta, doo-doo, excrement, faeces, feces, turd, waste product). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kotoran (dinginess), cemaran (calumny, filth, slander). (various references) | |
Italian | sudiciume (dinginess, filth, filthiness, frowziness, grime, muck, nastiness, raunchiness, scruffiness), sporcizia (dirtiness, filth, filthiness, foulness, frowziness, grime, nastiness). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 垢 (filth), 汚物 (dust, garbage), 汚れ (disgrace, filth, impurity, uncleanness), 塵埃 (dust, this drab world), 塵 (dust, garbage, rubbish, trash). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おぶつ (dust, garbage), あか (bloody, filth, red, scarlet, subfamily, suborder), よごれ (filth), じんあい (benevolence, charity, dust, love, this drab world), ちりほこり (dust, this drab world), ちり (dust, geography). (various references) | |
Korean | 먼지 (Dust). (various references) | |
Malagasy | tany. (various references) | |
Malay | lumpur (mud, slime). (various references) | |
Manx | trustyr (deads, debris, dross, filth, garbage, junk, muck, muckiness, nastiness, refuse, rubbish, scrap, trash, trash rubbish), sollaghar (contamination, pollution), brouteraght (mix up, weeds), broid (blow, filth, grime, pollutant, smut), breban (heel of shoe, little kick, snot, tic, twitch). (various references) | |
Mohawk | o'kènra. (various references) | |
Norwegian | skitt (filth, grime). (various references) | |
Papiamen | pòchòpòchò (mud, slime), pèchèpèchè (mud, slime), lodo (mud, slime), lebelebe (mud, slime), lèbèlèbè (mud, slime), chèpèchèpè (mud, slime). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | irtday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | moínha, cacho de bolhas miúdas (feather), emporcalhar (dirty, muck), escória (cinder, dreg, dregs, raffle, refuse, scobs, scoria, scum, spoilage, trash), esterco (dung, fertilizer, manure, muck, ordure, scat), imundície (carrion, dirtiness, feculence, filth, foulness, muck, ordure, sludge, slush, soil, squalor), lama (mire, mud, ooze, slob, slurry), barro (clay, earthenware, loam, mud), mesquinhez, sujidade (dirtiness), obscenidade (bawdy, blackguardism, foulness, impurity, indecency, obscene, obscenity, ordure, ribaldry, scurrility, smut), poeira (dust), porcaria (dirtiness, filth, grubbiness, mess, mire, muck, mud, slovenliness, sludge, squalor, trash), refugo (cull, garbage, jetsam, mullock, offal, offscourings, raffle, refuse, riffraff, rubbish, scum, spoilage, trash, trumpery), sordidez (dirtiness, piggery, pigpen, squalor), sujar (bedabble, befoul, begrime, besmear, besmirch, blemish, blotch, daub, defile, dirty, dishallow, drabble, draggle, foul, grime, make it wrong, mess, muck, muddy, slubber, smirch, smoke, smudge, soil, stain, sully), sujeira (filth, foulness, grime, grubbiness, mess, muck, smirch, smut, soil), lodo (clay, ooze, slob, slush). (various references) | |
Romanian | ticãloşie (abjection, baseness, blackness, filth, foulness, ignominiousness, ignominy, infamy, knavery, knavishness, meanness, misdeed, rascality, swinishness, wickedness, wretchedness), spurcãciune (dung, excrements, filth), scârnãvie (dung, vileness), pãmânt (acre, all over the world, clay, clod, country, earth, estate, Glebe, ground, land, Mold, mould, property, region, sod, soil, territory, throughout the world), nåmol (mud, slime), murdãrie (contamination, corruption, defilement, dinginess, dirtiness, dishonesty, dung, filth, filthiness, foulness, greasiness, grime, litter, maculation, mess, muck, nastiness, naughty words, offscourings, ordure, puddle, refuse, rust, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, squalidity), jeg (greasiness, grime), insultã (abuse, affront, contumely, hurt, insult, invective, offence, slap, slur), infamie (disgrace, flagrancy, infamy, meanness, villainy), gunoi (carrion, dung, garbage, kitchen stuff, litter, manure, mess, muck, offscourings, refuse, rubbish, scum, soil, waste), calomnie (backbiting, calumny, defamation, libel, obloquy, scandal, slander), blestemãţie (baseness, rascality). (various references) | |
Russian | грязь (dirtiness, filth, filthiness, foulness, grime, grubbiness, gunge, mire, muck, mud, muddiness, ordure, puddle, slob, sludge, sordidness, squalor, squelch). (various references) | |
Scottish | smod. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zemljan (earthen, earthy, terrene), zemlja (country, earth, ground, land, nation, soil, terra, territory), tle (deep-frozen soil), prljavština (dirtiness, filth, grime, impurity, muck, squalor), nečistoća (dross, filth, impurity, muck, ordure, recrement), blato (mire, mud, quagmire, slop, slops, sludge), šljam (gutter, scum). (various references) | |
Spanish | suciedad (dirtiness, grubbiness, guiltiness, impurity, nastiness, sordidness, uncleanliness). (various references) | |
Sranan | tokotoko (mud, slime), fistisani (filth). (various references) | |
Swedish | smuts (dirtiness, filth, foulness, grime, muck, night-soil, ordure, squalor). (various references) | |
Thai | เรื่องสกปรก, สิ่งสกปรก (foul, griminess, grubbiness, muck), ดิน (clod, soil). (various references) | |
Turkish | dedikodu (gossip, grapevine, grapevine telegraph, hearsay, report, rumor, rumour, scandal, scuttlebutt, tale, talk, tattle, tittle tattle, tittletattle), terbiyesiz konuşma, pislik (contamination, crap, crud, dinginess, dirtiness, excrement, excreta, faecal matter, faeces, feculence, filth, filthiness, foulness, gook, griminess, impurity, jerk, mess, mire, muck, nastiness, offscourings, ordure, pollution, scum, scurvy, smear, smut, soil, sordidness, squalor, uncleanliness), maden içeren toprak, müstehcen söz, kir (filth, grime, smear, smirch, soil, stain, tarnish), çerçöp (brushwood, crap, offal, offscourings, trash), çamur (aspersion, calumniation, clay, daub, gook, mire, muck, mud, slime, slob, slosh, slush, soggy, squelch). (various references) | |
Turkmen | hapa (dirty, mud, trash), gдz, зyrюak (mud), зor (mud). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | грунт (earth, land, soil, terrain), бруд (feculence, filth, foul, foulness, grime, mullock, squalor). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vật vô giá trị lời nói tục tĩu, lời thô tục nuốt nhục chửi rủa ai bôi nhọ ai, lời thô bỉ, gièm pha ai vàng, ghét đất vật rác rưởi, bôi xấu ai, đồ dơ dáy bùn nhão, đồ dơ bẩn, đồ bẩn thỉu. (various references) | |
Welsh | tom (dung, mire), rhwd (filth, rust, sediment), |
