Dirt vs. Dust
Dirt and Dust Definitions
Dirt
Earth or soil.
Dust
Fine, dry particles of matter.
Dirt
A filthy or soiling substance, such as mud or dust.
Dust
A cloud of fine, dry particles.
Dirt
Excrement.
Dust
Particles of matter regarded as the result of disintegration
Fabric that had fallen to dust over the centuries.
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Dirt
A squalid or filthy condition.
Dust
Earth, especially when regarded as the substance of the grave
"ashes to ashes, dust to dust" (Book of Common Prayer).
Dirt
One that is mean, contemptible, or vile.
Dust
The surface of the ground.
Dirt
Obscene language or subject matter.
Dust
A debased or despised condition.
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Dirt
Malicious or scandalous gossip.
Dust
Something of no worth.
Dirt
Information that embarrasses or accuses.
Dust
Chiefly British Rubbish readied for disposal.
Dirt
Unethical behavior or practice; corruption.
Dust
Confusion; agitation; commotion
Won't go back in until the dust settles.
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Dirt
Material, such as gravel or slag, from which metal is extracted in mining.
Dust
To remove dust from by wiping, brushing, or beating
Dust the furniture.
Dirt
Soil or earth.
Dust
To sprinkle with a powdery substance
Dusted the cookies with sugar.
Dust crops with fertilizer.
Dirt
A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance.
Dust
To apply or strew in fine particles
Dusted talcum powder on my feet.
Dirt
Previously unknown facts, or the invented "facts", about a person.
The reporter uncovered the dirt on the businessman by going undercover.
Dust
(Baseball) To deliver a pitch so close to (the batter) as to make the batter back away.
Dirt
(figurative) Meanness; sordidness.
Dust
To clean by removing dust.
Dirt
(mining) In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
Dust
To cover itself with dry soil or other particulate matter. Used of a bird.
Dirt
Freckles
Dust
Fine particles
Dirt
To make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty
Dust
(uncountable) Fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects, typically consisting of soil lifted up by the wind, pollen, hair, etc.
Dirt
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.
Whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
Dust
Submicron particles in outer space, largely silicates and carbon compounds, that contribute greatly to extinction at visible wavelengths.
Dirt
Meanness; sordidness.
Honors . . . thrown away upon dirt and infamy.
Dust
(obsolete) A single particle of earth or other material.
Dirt
In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
Dust
(countable) The act of cleaning by dusting.
Dirt
To make foul of filthy; to dirty.
Dust
The earth, as the resting place of the dead.
Dirt
The part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock
Dust
The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
Dirt
The state of being covered with unclean things
Dust
(figurative) Something worthless.
Dirt
Obscene terms for feces
Dust
(figurative) A low or mean condition.
Dirt
Disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people
Dust
Cash; money (in reference to gold dust).
Dirt
(of roads) not leveled or drained; unsuitable for all year travel
Dust
(colloquial) A disturbance or uproar.
To raise, or kick up, a dust
Dust
(mathematics) A totally disconnected set of points with a fractal structure.
Dust
(transitive) To remove dust from.
The cleaning lady needs a stool to dust the cupboard.
Dust
(intransitive) To remove dust; to clean by removing dust.
Dusting always makes me cough.
Dust
(intransitive) Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth.
Dust
(transitive) To spray or cover something with fine powder or liquid.
The mother dusted her baby's bum with talcum powder.
Dust
To leave; to rush off.
Dust
To reduce to a fine powder; to levigate.
Dust
(slang) To kill.
Dust
Fine, dry particles of earth or other matter, so comminuted that they may be raised and wafted by the wind; that which is crumbled to minute portions; fine powder; as, clouds of dust; bone dust.
Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Stop! - for thy tread is on an empire's dust.
Dust
A single particle of earth or other matter.
Dust
The earth, as the resting place of the dead.
For now shall sleep in the dust.
Dust
The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
And you may carve a shrine about my dust.
Dust
Figuratively, a worthless thing.
And by the merit of vile gold, dross, dust.
Dust
Figuratively, a low or mean condition.
[God] raiseth up the poor out of the dust.
Dust
Gold dust
Dust
To free from dust; to brush, wipe, or sweep away dust from; as, to dust a table or a floor.
Dust
To sprinkle with dust.
Dust
To reduce to a fine powder; to levigate.
Dust
Fine powdery material such as dry earth or pollen that can be blown about in the air;
The furniture was covered with dust
Dust
The remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
Dust
Free microscopic particles of solid material;
Astronomers say that the empty space between planets actually contains measurable amounts of dust
Dust
Remove the dust from;
Dust the cabinets
Dust
Rub the dust over a surface so as to blur the outlines of a shape;
The artist dusted the charcoal drawing down to a faint image
Dust
Cover with a light dusting of a substance;
Dust the bread with flour
Dust
Distribute loosely;
He scattered gun powder under the wagon
