(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 .
Geophagia
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The present paper reports two experiments in which geophagia in response to stress and arthritis was measured.
(2) Geophagia, in the form of clay-eating, is often observed during pregnancy in the human population.
(3) We investigated geophagia in the black population of rural Holmes County, Mississippi.
(4) The unsuspected finding was a 46% history of marked pica of clay (geophagia) in a subset of 26 patients.
(5) The number of herbal remedies that have been touted is astounding, and the entire science of Geophagia evolved in the hope identifying of those population-specific customs that may have had a positive effect on birth outcome as an adaptive mechanism.
(6) Reported is a case representing an unusual form of geophagia, in which ingestion of pebbles by a 27-year-old mentally retarded woman resulted in impaction and complete filling of the colon with pebbles.
(7) The syndrome of dwarfism, hypogonadism, iron-deficiency anemia and geophagia, first reported in 1960 from Iran, was thought to be limited to males.
(8) 1) Geophagia characterized by, severe, anaemia, dwarfism, hypogonadism and hepatosplenomegaly is sometimes seen in young patients (and children) in Iran.
(9) Geophagia, the consumption of nonnutritive dirt, has previously been shown to be increased when rats have been made acutely ill.
(10) The association of iron-deficiency anaemia, hepatomegaly, dwarfism and hypogonadism with a geophagia syndrome is noted and its pathogenesis explained.
(11) It was concluded that geophagia may occur in response to any homeostatic alteration (stress state).
(12) Geophagia, the eating of dirt, usually clay, has been recorded in every region of the world both as idiosyncratic behavior of isolated individuals and as culturally prescribed behavior of particular societies.
(13) The absence of geophagia in noncontingently poisoned and "sham" injected control groups indicates that the pica was due to the acquisition of a conditioned illness during the conditioning trials.
(14) Elimination of the disease requires surveillance of dogs, especially puppies, and avoidance of geophagia.
(15) The significance of pica and geophagia as a public health problem is well known.
(16) They ate significantly more kaolin (a nonnutritive substance) than controls, suggesting that geophagia is a behavioral measure of illness.
(17) The ultrastructure of intestinal mucosa in two geophagia patients with growth retardation, hypogonadism, hepatosplenomegaly, zinc deficiency, iron deficiency, and anemia was studied with an electron microscope.
(18) Geophagia has been suggested as one of the factors leading to hyperkalemia, but our data do not support this notion.
(19) He briefly reviews: spontaneous post-cesarian perforation of the cecum, post-partum paralysis of the external popliteal sciatic, carpal canal syndrome in pregnacy, meralgia paresthetica in pregnant women, diaphragmatic hernia and its complications during pregnancy and labor, post-mortem cesarian, the "molar lung", early pregnancy and late pregnancy, fulguration and electroshock in pregnant women, the "acrobatic fetus", the rupture of an aneurysm of the splenic artery, geophagia or "pica", extramucous ruptures of the uterus, "virtually pure" type XX familial gonadic dysgenesis with deaf-muteness, gynecologic pathomimesis, genital perihepatitis or Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome, vulvar mammary ectopism, post-hysterectomic pregnancy, recurrent hydramnios, locoregional ecchymatosis.
(20) The chance of detectability of geophagia is highest in the colon and can be improved by using low penetration films, particularly for smaller amounts of ingested clay.