(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 .
Turd
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) A Peperami looks almost exactly like a long dried turd.
(2) If My Little Pony produced turds, then these would be they.
(3) So we decided to just back off and let [politicians] do their comedy and we’ll do ours.” Parker has previously referred to Trump and Clinton as “the giant douche and the turd sandwich” .
(4) For more than a decade, he was leader of the fractious Socialist party, where he once reportedly likened the constant task of calming of ego spats and political rows to clearing up dog turds.
(5) 'A little turd' by Edwina Currie, and the 'sleazeball's sleazeball' by David Mellor, which is almost enough to make you warm to him.
(6) In a recent cartoon he criticised the regime's offers of reforms, with a picture of an official with rosebuds in his speech bubble – and a turd in his head.
(7) For one senior lawyer, the former Law Society chief Robert Sayer, his public designation of one rival as "a dog turd" plainly has no bearing on his current work at Sayer Moore & Co solicitors.
(8) 8.19pm BST Howard's not even listening he's just looking at his fruity turd.
(9) Trump may say misogynist things, but other Republican candidates do them | Jessica Valenti Read more It’s true, like his fans have said , that the turds hurtling out of Trump’s mouth-hole aren’t created by committee and vetted by a campaign operative (though Nixonian dirty trickster Roger Simon says he tried ).
(10) Then we can remind everyone to wear shoes and sandals when they go to the toilet … and to wash their hands.” • World toilet day: public poo, crap compost and a golden turd – in pictures
(11) Doubtless fans of experimental music, hysteria and exaggeration have read of the weekend event’s other problems, the final turd blockage in the U-bend of its cash flow being the caught-on-CCTV vandalism of an arcade machine by a person who had gained access to the site by pretending to be a member of the Fall’s entourage.
(12) If I'm in a really bad mood it looks like a huge glass turd planted near the edge of the road.
(13) Addressing the public relations audience, Walker said: "People outside the communications industry sometimes think that it is possible to spin anything – that the proverbial turd can indeed be polished, if you'll pardon the metaphor.
(14) It is a frequent outcome for site-specific work, which began in the late 1960s as a reaction to the growing commodification of art, but during the 80s and 90s was all too often a ready-made garnish for corporate lobbies and commercial piazzas – what American architect James Wines summed up as the "turd on the plaza".
(15) Naturally, my birth almost kills my mother, for my head is too big, full of words words words birds turds.
(16) Those handy “don’t get raped tips” that keep turning up on the internet like bad bitcoin are just more kangaroo turds for the pile that Western women are expected to carry around in our heads all the time.
(17) It would be easy to mock those involved – to accompany Marianne's tutu-appliquéing activities with a comedy trombone, perhaps, or to let us know that it's all a bit infradig by filming Martin unknowingly treading on a turd, then following him as he tramples it around the Northern line.
(18) Towards the end of the meal, I stepped into the men's room to pee and there, disintegrating in the western-style toilet, was an unflushed turd, a little reminder saying, "See, you're still in China!"
(19) They look like the turds of an animal who has been eating whole peppercorns.
(20) With a name so redolent of turd, Mr Murdstone was not a man to whom I warmed and I was not at all unhappy when my mother sent me to stay with Peggotty for a fortnight.