Soil vs Corrupt - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) A mixture of sand and organic material, used to support plant growth.
(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.
(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.
Country or territory.
That which soils or pollutes; a stain.
* Dryden
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.
* Marston
Dung; compost; manure.
* Mortimer
To make dirty.
* Milton
To become dirty or soiled.
(figurative) To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
(reflexive) To dirty one's clothing by accidentally defecating while clothed.
To make invalid, to ruin.
To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
* South
(uncountable, euphemistic) Faeces or urine etc. when found on clothes.
(countable, medicine) A bag containing soiled items.
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.
In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.
* Shakespeare
Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.
In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
* Knolles
To make ; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.
* , Genesis 6:12
To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.
To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify.
To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
* Bible, Matthew vi. 19
In transitive terms the difference between soil and corrupt
is that soil is to make dirty while corrupt is to make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.In intransitive terms the difference between soil and corrupt
is that soil is to become dirty or soiled while corrupt is to become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.As a noun soil
is a mixture of sand and organic material, used to support plant growth.As an adjective corrupt is
in a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.soil
English
(wikipedia soil)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), . See also (l), (l).Noun
- The refugees returned to their native soil .
- A lady's honour will not bear a soil .
- As deer, being stuck, fly through many soils , / Yet still the shaft sticks fast.
- night soil
- Improve land by dung and other sort of soils .
Synonyms
* dirt (US) , earthDerived terms
* home soil * native soil * soilless * soil pipe * topsoilSee also
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), (m), .Verb
(en verb)- Our wonted ornaments now soiled and stained.
- Light colours soil sooner than dark ones.
- (Shakespeare)
- Men soil their ground, not that they love the dirt, but that they expect a crop.
Synonyms
* (to make dirty) smirch, besmirch, dirtyDerived terms
* soil oneselfNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* dirtEtymology 3
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), .Etymology 4
(etyl) saoler, .Verb
(en verb)- to soil a horse
Anagrams
* (l), (l), (l) ----corrupt
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The government here is corrupt , so we'll emigrate to escape them.
- At what ease / Might corrupt' minds procure knaves as ' corrupt / To swear against you.
- The text of the manuscript is corrupt .
- It turned out that the program was corrupt - that's why it wouldn't open.
- Who with such corrupt and pestilent bread would feed them.
Usage notes
* Nouns to which "corrupt" is often applied: practice, state, country, nation, regime, city, government, person, man, politician, leader, mayor, judge, member, minister, file, database, document, woman.Quotations
* , Genesis 6:11 *: The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.Synonyms
* corruptedVerb
(en verb)- Don't you dare corrupt my son with those disgusting pictures!
- And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
- (Francis Bacon)
- to corrupt language, or a holy text
- Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt .