(n.) Any foul of filthy substance, as excrement, mud, dust, etc.; whatever, adhering to anything, renders it foul or unclean; earth; as, a wagonload of dirt.
(n.) Meanness; sordidness.
(n.) In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
(v. t.) To make foul of filthy; to dirty.
Example Sentences:
(1) But this morning's right-of-centre national papers were determined to rub his nose in the dirt.
(2) He got so bad that I - and this is true - turned off the television and went outside to watch my son add to his dirt collection.
(3) But Gates’s decision to “bump off from art” and live “in the sphere of dirt, the dirty, the stuff that we think is in the ground” was revelatory, leading to invitations to Davos and a TED Talk, where he talked about how he revived a neighborhood with imagination and hard graft .
(4) Earlier this year, a century-old wasteland of limestone and red dirt in south-west Nigeria was transformed into the biggest cement plant in Africa.
(5) Along with Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly, he brought the music of the dirt farms, the sweat shops and the lonesome highways into America's – and later the world's – living room.
(6) The land is held by the Navajo people, and visitors must pay an access fee to drive through the tribal park on a 17-mile dirt loop, which is suitable for all cars when dry but impassable after a storm ( usually in late summer).
(7) It’s a bit of a trek to get there: a few kilometres drive along a dirt road and then a short walk, with arrows painted on stones.
(8) Apparently, optimal disinfection of contaminated knives is extremely difficult to attain without the use of mechanical forces such as a high pressure water jet to remove the dirt.
(9) This state of high resistance to infection can be reduced by several factors which include circulatory embarrassment, tissue injury, dead space, and the presence of foreign bodies (dirt, sutures, drains, etc.).
(10) Among the prime concerns, especially for facial skin, is the type of dirt, debris, or make-up to be removed.
(11) We’re out there one night ’til 3am shoveling dirt on the fire.
(12) The land that when you shed your shoes and walk, you feel every grain of dirt and every blade of grass and for a moment, everything is right in the world and you are in your rightful place in it.
(13) Because the all-hallowed children must learn from their elders to exercise, every adult entering Hampstead Heath must hit the dirt for a set of 25 press-ups.
(14) Elevated concentrations of the soil fungi were significantly (P = 0.05) associated with the dirt floor, crawl-space type of basement.
(15) With its dirt pavements and crumbling wooden homes, the city of Kirov is a city stuck in time.
(16) Another former colleague in the psychological operations unit, Fred Allen Lucas, said that Page called him a "race traitor" for dating Latina women and took to calling other races "dirt people".
(17) Observations for estrus were conducted three times daily in a dirt paddock containing a testosterone-treated cow.
(18) On the outskirts of Juba, along a dirt road just past the UN camp, opposition forces clad in new uniforms and boots lined up for a military parade.
(19) Lead antiknock additives are therefore not a significant contributor to the lead content of dirt around houses where children usually play.
(20) As the result of smear slide evaluation, it was concluded that proper sputum specimens have been smeared but smears were generally too thin and contaminated with too many dirt .
Dit
Definition:
(n.) A word; a decree.
(n.) A ditty; a song.
(v. t.) To close up.
Example Sentences:
(1) Expression of the DIT and DIT2 genes is restricted to sporulating cells, with the DIT1 transcripts accumulating at the time of prospore enclosure and just prior to the time of dityrosine biosynthesis.
(2) The volume fraction of synthetic organelles in smooth muscle cells from the DIT of both males and females is of a highly significant difference from the volume fraction of synthetic organelles in cells of the subjacent media.
(3) Urinary excretion of intact DIT was low, being less than 1% of the administered dose of exogenous DIT within 2 days.
(4) Our data confirm the in vivo generation of extrathyroidal DIT from T4 in the rat.
(5) In contrast, 52% of the iodine administered in the form of DIT was excreted in the urine in the same time interval.
(6) Short periods of loading do not alter deiodination of L-DIT in liver or kidney at all; but lead to significant elevation of L-T4-deiodination in liver tissue.
(7) DIT may play a central role in the regulation of energy expenditure and in the etiology of certain types of obesity.
(8) DIT and BAT are controlled by hormonal action: noradrenaline appears to be the primary activator of BAT and insulin may be required for DIT and may even activate thermogenesis.
(9) The levels of MIT, DIT, T3 and T4 in the thyroid, and T3, T4 and TSH in serum, and the amount of iodine transport and synthesis of organic iodine in thyroid were determined.
(10) Higher doses or longer periods of loading cause a significant rise of L-DIT-deiodination in liver and kidney, while the L-T4-deiodination in liver is significantly decreased and in kidney significantly elevated.
(11) The secretion of gastric acid in the peptic ulcer patients were examined by the dopamine infusion test (DIT).
(12) In rats hypothyroidized with methylthiouracil (MTU), methimazol (MMI), or radiothyroidectomy, the extent of deiodination for L-diiodotyrosine (L-DIT) and L-thyroxine (L-T4) was investigated in homogenate supernatants of liver and kidney.
(13) two pentapeptides, apparently of the sequence Tyr-Asn-Asx-Lys-Gly, isolated as the DIT and MIT derivatives.
(14) There was no significant correlation between sex, age, presence of diabetes, mode of dialysis, years of chronic renal failure, years of dialysis or years of aluminum ingestion and any neurologic or neurobehavioral measurement, serum aluminum level, or DIT.
(15) The carbonyl complexes were found to be efficient hepatobiliary agents and cleared more rapidly than the corresponding 99mTcN- and 99mTc(dit)-complexes.
(16) From the results of kinetic studies and RIA measurements, the fraction of circulating T4 converted to DIT was calculated to be 3.9-4.3%.
(17) While rT3 is elevated in almost all critically ill patients, the increase in DIT is indicative of severe infection.
(18) The reaction is effectively quenched by the antioxidant, 2,6-dit-butyl-4-hydroxymethyl phenol as well as by Mn+2 (10(-5)-10(-3)M).
(19) The relative affinity of T3, T4, rT3, MIT, and DIT were in good agreement with their biological activity.
(20) Splitting off of sialic acid diminishes thenumber of phenolic groups of tyrosine, MIT, DIT and T4, which dissociate below pH 12-5.