What's the difference between dirt and filth?

Dirt


Definition:

  • (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 .

Filth


Definition:

  • (n.) Foul matter; anything that soils or defiles; dirt; nastiness.
  • (n.) Anything that sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And, of course, cities built on heavy industry had all the downsides of pollution, waste and filth.
  • (2) I recently discovered that I'm in The Filth and the Fury DVD eating cake and talking to Sid - my brother bought it me for Christmas.
  • (3) I couldn't handle the hangovers: waking up in the sticky filth of the Colony Room on the floor; sweating my way though meetings at White Cube; going to meet Larry [Gagosian] on the Anadin, the Nurofen, the Berocca and the Vicks nasal spray, looking like an alcoholic tramp.
  • (4) At its height he appeared to make light of the scandal using florid rhetoric, as he described the emerging revelations about sexual abuse as a "tsunami of filth".
  • (5) Filth and smoke hangs everywhere, clogging the very soul.
  • (6) "Don't worry," we say (and it is you and I) "keep them in as much filth as you like, we won't be asking any questions."
  • (7) Some Islamic traditions consider it blasphemous to make or show an image of the prophet, and Vilks's drawings were regarded as especially derogatory as dogs are a symbol of filth for many Muslims.
  • (8) A method has been developed for the isolation of light filth from food breadings.
  • (9) House fly pupae were suitable as hosts for U.rufipes at all ages; however, significantly higher parasitism occurred on host pupae aged 96-120 h. Parasite-induced mortality (host mortality without progeny production) was higher than for other pteromalid parasites of filth flies under similar conditions.
  • (10) James McAvoy was named best actor for his role in an adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel Filth.
  • (11) Everest base camp, a rocky plateau at 5,300m that is the starting point for climbing expeditions, has for years been the focus of clean-up operations after a series of stinging reports in the 1990s about rubbish and filth in what had once been pristine environments.
  • (12) During his press conference last week, Bo complained that critics had "poured filth" on him and his family.
  • (13) [McClure was directed by Madonna in her 2008 film Filth and Wisdom ] Yeah!
  • (14) Aside from the sheer filth factor, not washing your jeans means they will lose their shape (two words: baggy arse), smell and look dirty, because they are dirty.
  • (15) The method has been adopted official first action for extraction of light filth from whole leaves of alfalfa, papaya, and spearmint.
  • (16) Results are reported for a collaborative study of a method for the extraction of light filth from spirulina (a blue-green alga) powder and tablets.
  • (17) Collaborative results are presented for a proposed method for light filth extraction from ground beef or hamburger.
  • (18) *** Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘The Earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth.’ A landfill in Bhopal, India.
  • (19) Air pollution: a dark cloud of filth poisons the world’s cities Read more Much of the polluted air has drifted in from continental Europe and has been trapped by the cold air which is now spread over eastern England.
  • (20) The present official first action method for the isolation of light filth from fig and fruit paste, 44.083(a), occasionally yields excessive plant debris on filter papers, which causes difficulty in effectively counting insect filth.