dirt

Everyday

1. Dirt is anything that makes things unclean, like mud, dust or grease. tree →
2. Dirt is loose earth or soil. tree →
3. Dirt about someone is gossip or bad secret information (informal). tree →

In the lessons

In hygiene lessons, dirt can carry germs, so you wash your hands after playing outside and before eating. In science and gardening, dirt (soil) is where plants grow and worms live. In American English, a dirt road or dirt track is a road with no hard surface. Phrases: covered in dirt, dirt cheap (very cheap), dirt road, dig the dirt.

Examples

• Wash the dirt off your hands before dinner. tree →
• The boys came home covered in dirt. tree →
• We planted seeds in the dirt. tree →
• The car bumped along a dirt road. tree →
• There's dirt under your fingernails. tree →
• Worms live in the dirt. tree →
• Its china label was quite coated over with dirt and cobwebs. tree →

Note

Uncountable: say "some dirt", "a lot of dirt", not "a dirt" or "dirts". Adjective: dirty. In British English people usually say "soil" for garden earth; Americans often say "dirt". "Dirt cheap" means very cheap.

In Jewish tradition

Interpretation: Isaiah compares the wicked to a stormy sea that never rests and throws up filth. The tradition reads this as saying that wickedness brings restless trouble instead of peace. In the primary lessons: In hygiene lessons, dirt can carry germs, so you wash your hands after playing outside and before eating. In science and gardening, dirt (soil) is where plants grow and worms live. In American English, a dirt road or dirt track is a road with no hard surface. Phrases: covered in dirt, dirt cheap (very cheap), dirt road, dig the dirt.

Examples

• But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it cannot rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt. (Prophets ISA.57.20, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

Uncountable: say "some dirt", "a lot of dirt", not "a dirt" or "dirts". Adjective: dirty. In British English people usually say "soil" for garden earth; Americans often say "dirt". "Dirt cheap" means very cheap.