(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 .
Shite
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) As one sports fan put it ruefully: "Nobody ever lost money underestimating the British public's appetite to buy shite."
(2) In the words of one Lib Dem Minister: "It will be shite."
(3) The latter is "a great place if you're under three or over 53; shite if you're anywhere in between," said Dan Kieran, deputy editor of the Idler, who launched the hunt for crapness last year on the magazine's website.
(4) "They don't come and stand in the crowd and go, 'Oh, thanks for the fucking 10-quid bag of shite, would you mind being in my film?'"
(5) The effect of short-term (6 months) administration of conjugated equine estrogen (Premarin) on content and composition of the aortic sterols in male shite Carneau pigeons while they were on a cholesterol-free grain diet was investigated.
(6) I'm thinking the one last time from ITV (over the cover of Hurt by Johnny Cash) was genuinely moving but looking at it now its shite .
(7) Allardyce, when told of his opposite number's comments, laughed and said: "I don't give a shite, to be honest."
(8) Bucks New University, in High Wycombe, concluded that an improved Facebook page carrying reviews of students' experiences was a must, with all the risks that came with that ("Shite", posted one unhappy alumnus).
(9) I said to him: "You know your early films were so good … would you say the ones that came directly after were a bag of shite?"
(10) "If you actually sit down and listen to them, there are some great moments, but there's a lot of shite, too."
(11) Even the bargain basement offering, described by one esteemed critic as 'shite food and less than half a bottle of mediocre wine', will set competitors back £244 each - far more than a meal for two at an exclusive restaurant.
(12) "Not content with spewing shite (as always), he's decided that Wesley Sneijder is called Wesley 'Sneijders'.
(13) Perhaps fragile and emotionally vulnerable students could be given an introductory series of lectures on how life can be utterly shite at times and a bit rough, too.
(14) Alternatively, don’t poison the fishing waters, abduct his great-grandparents into slavery, then turn up 400 years later on your gap year talking a lot of shite about fish.” We can’t put a price on the suffering wrought by colonialism.
(15) He can tell me that all he wants, I don’t give a shite.
(16) And in your heart you kind of know that although it sounds all right, it's actually just shite… The fear of having "had it, lost it", of knowing in your heart that it sounds just "all right", often seems to propel Danny Boyle's own career in its unpredictable and fast-forward course.
(17) And rather the fact-based miseries of these poor bastards than the fictional boohooisms of fellow "It were shite back then" costume grumbler The Village.
(18) The book includes a magnificently scathing 2001 resignation email to the NME , railing against sexism, “shite tunes” and pandering to the lowest common denominator – but she forgot to press “send”.
(19) Especially now with all the shite magazines – people wanna write about what fucking shoes you're wearing.