Sand vs. Soil

Small loose grains of worn or disintegrated rock.

The top layer of the earth's surface in which plants can grow, consisting of rock and mineral particles mixed with decayed organic matter and having the capability of retaining water.

(Geology) A sedimentary material, finer than a granule and coarser than silt, with grains between 0.06 and 2.0 millimeters in diameter.

A particular kind of earth or ground

Often sands A tract of land covered with sand, as a beach or desert.

Country; land

The loose, granular, gritty particles in an hourglass.

The agricultural life

Sands Moments of allotted time or duration

A place or condition favorable to growth; a breeding ground.

(Slang) Courage; stamina; perseverance

The state of being soiled.

A light grayish brown to yellowish gray.

A stain.

To sprinkle or cover with or as if with sand.

Filth, sewage, or refuse.

To polish or scrape with sand or sandpaper.

Manure, especially human excrement, used as fertilizer.

To mix with sand.

To make dirty, particularly on the surface.

To fill up (a harbor) with sand.

To disgrace; tarnish

(uncountable) Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally, see grain sizes chart), forming beaches and deserts and also used in construction.

To corrupt; defile.

A beach or other expanse of sand.

To dirty with excrement.

Personal courage.

To become dirty, stained, or tarnished.

A particle from 62.5 microns to 2 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.

To feed (livestock) with soilage.

A light beige colour, like that of typical sand.

(uncountable) A mixture of mineral particles and organic material, used to support plant growth.

A single grain of sand.

(uncountable) The unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth that serves as a natural medium for the growth of land plants.

A moment or interval of time; the term or extent of one's life (referring to the sand in an hourglass).

(uncountable) The unconsolidated mineral or organic matter on the surface of the earth that has been subjected to and shows effects of genetic and environmental factors of: climate (including water and temperature effects), and macro- and microorganisms, conditioned by relief, acting on parent material over a period of time. A product-soil differs from the material from which it is derived in many physical, chemical, biological, and morphological properties and characteristics.

(colloquial) A sandpiper.

Country or territory.

Of a light beige colour, like that of typical sand.

That which soils or pollutes; a stain.

(transitive) To abrade the surface of (something) with sand or sandpaper in order to smooth or clean it.

A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer.

(transitive) To cover with sand.

Dung; compost; manure.

To blot ink using sand.

Faeces or urine etc. when found on clothes.

Fine particles of stone, esp. of siliceous stone, but not reduced to dust; comminuted stone in the form of loose grains, which are not coherent when wet.

A bag containing soiled items.

A single particle of such stone.

A wet or marshy place in which a boar or other such game seeks refuge when hunted.

The sand in the hourglass; hence, a moment or interval of time; the term or extent of one's life.

(transitive) To make dirty.

Tracts of land consisting of sand, like the deserts of Arabia and Africa; also, extensive tracts of sand exposed by the ebb of the tide.

(intransitive) To become dirty or soiled.

Courage; pluck; grit.

To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.

To sprinkle or cover with sand.

(reflexive) To dirty one's clothing by accidentally defecating while clothed.

To drive upon the sand.

To make invalid, to ruin.

To bury (oysters) beneath drifting sand or mud.

To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.

To mix with sand for purposes of fraud; as, to sand sugar.

To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an enclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (due to such food having the effect of purging them) to purge by feeding on green food.

A loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral

To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (such food having the effect of purging them), to purge by feeding on green food; as, to soil a horse.

French writer known for works concerning women's rights and independence (1804-1876)

To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.

Fortitude and determination;

To make dirty or unclean on the surface; to foul; to dirty; to defile; as, to soil a garment with dust.

Rub with sandpaper;

To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.

To become soiled; as, light colors soil sooner than dark ones.

The upper stratum of the earth; the mold, or that compound substance which furnishes nutriment to plants, or which is particularly adapted to support and nourish them.

Land; country.

Dung; fæces; compost; manure; as, night soil.

A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer.

That which soils or pollutes; a soiled place; spot; stain.

The state of being covered with unclean things

The part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock

Material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use);

The geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state;

Make soiled, filthy, or dirty;