different between coke vs soil

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k??k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ko?k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Etymology 1

Perhaps from Middle English colke.

Alternative forms

• coak (obsolete)

Noun

coke (uncountable)

1. (uncountable) Solid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven; used principally as a fuel and in the production of steel and formerly as a domestic fuel.
   • The plant should produce approximately 550,000 tons of screened blast furnace coke per year.

Derived terms

• biocoke

Translations

Verb

coke (third-person singular simple present cokes, present participle coking, simple past and past participle coked)

1. (transitive) To produce coke from coal.
2. (intransitive) To turn into coke.
3. (automotive) To add deleterious carbon deposits as a byproduct of combustion.

Derived terms

• decoke
• decoking

Translations

Etymology 2

Originated circa 1908 in American English as a clipping of cocaine.

Noun

coke (uncountable)

1. (informal, slang, uncountable) Cocaine.

Translations

See also

• coca

Etymology 3

1909, from the name of the American company Coca-Cola and the beverage it produced; the drink was named for two of its original ingredients, coca leaves and cola nut.

Noun

coke (plural cokes)

1. (uncountable, informal) Alternative letter-case form of Coke (cola-based soft drink, especially Coca-Cola).
2. (countable, informal) Alternative letter-case form of Coke (a serving of cola-based soft drink, especially Coca-Cola).
3. (US, chiefly Southern US, informal) Alternative letter-case form of Coke (any soft drink, regardless of type).

Synonyms

• (soft drink): see the list at soda

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “coke”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko?k/
• Hyphenation: coke
• Rhymes: -o?k
• Homophone: kook

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English coke.

Noun

coke m (plural cokes)

1. (chiefly in the plural) coke (type of processed carbon used as fuel)

Usage notes

The singular is less common than the plural form in Dutch, which may also be used like an uncountable singular.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English coke.

Noun

coke m (uncountable)

1. (slang) cocaine, coke

   Synonym: cocaïne

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?k/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English coke (“residue from roasting in a coal oven”).

Noun

coke m (plural cokes)

1. coke (form of carbon)

Derived terms

• cokerie

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English coke (“cocaine”).

Noun

coke f (plural cokes)

1. coke (cocaine)

Synonyms

• cocaïne

Further reading

• “coke” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

coke m (invariable)

1. coke (form of carbon)

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??l/, [s????]
• Rhymes: -??l

Etymology 1

From Middle English soile, soyle, sule (“ground, earth”), partly from Anglo-Norman soyl (“bottom, ground, pavement”), from Latin solium (“seat, chair; throne”), mistaken for Latin solum (“ground, foundation, earth, sole of the foot”); and partly from Old English sol (“mud, mire, wet sand”), from Proto-Germanic *sul? (“mud, spot”), from Proto-Indo-European *s?l- (“thick liquid”). Cognate with Middle Low German söle (“dirt, mud”), Middle Dutch sol (“dirt, filth”), Middle High German sol, söl (“dirt, mud, mire”), Danish søle (“mud, muck”). Compare French seuil (“level; threshold”) and sol (“soil, earth; ground”). See also sole, soal, solum.

Alternative forms

• soyl (obsolete)

Noun

soil (countable and uncountable, plural soils)

1. (uncountable) A mixture of mineral particles and organic material, used to support plant growth.
2. (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.
3. (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.
4. Country or territory.

   The refugees returned to their native soil.

   Kenyan soil
5. That which soils or pollutes; a stain.
6. 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.
7. Dung; compost; manure.

   night soil

Synonyms

• (senses 1 to 3): dirt (US), earth

Derived terms

Related terms

• solum

Translations

See also

• alluvium

Etymology 2

From Middle English soilen, soulen, suylen (“to sully, make dirty”), partly from Old French soillier, souillier (“to soil, make dirty, wallow in mire”), from Old Frankish *sauljan, *sulljan (“to make dirty, soil”); partly from Old English solian, sylian (“to soil, make dirty”), from Proto-Germanic *sulw?n?, *sulwijan?, *saulijan? (“to soil, make dirty”), from Proto-Indo-European *s?l- (“thick liquid”). Cognate with Old Frisian sulia (“to soil, mire”), Middle Dutch soluwen, seulewen (“to soil, besmirch”), Old High German sol?n, bisulen (“to make dirty”), German suhlen (“to soil, make dirty”), Danish søle (“to make dirty, defile”), Swedish söla (“to soil, make dirty”), Gothic ???????????????????????????????????? (bisauljan, “to bemire”). Compare sully.

Verb

soil (third-person singular simple present soils, present participle soiling, simple past and past participle soiled)

1. (transitive) To make dirty.
2. (intransitive) To become dirty or soiled.

   Light colours soil sooner than dark ones.

3. (transitive, figuratively) To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
4. (reflexive) To dirty one's clothing by accidentally defecating while clothed.
5. To make invalid, to ruin.
6. To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.

Synonyms

• (to make dirty): smirch, besmirch, dirty

Derived terms

• soil oneself
• soilage (“act of soiling; condition of being soiled”)

Translations

Noun

soil (plural soils)

1. (uncountable, euphemistic) Faeces or urine etc. when found on clothes.
2. (countable, medicine) A bag containing soiled items.

Synonyms

• (faeces or urine etc.): dirt

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English soyl, from Old French soil, souil (“quagmire, marsh”), from Frankish *s?lja, *saulja (“mire, miry place, wallow”), from Proto-Germanic *saulij? (“mud, puddle, feces”), from Proto-Indo-European *s?l- (“thick liquid”). Cognate with Old English syle, sylu, sylen (“miry place, wallow”), Old High German sol, gisol (“miry place”), German Suhle (“a wallow, mud pit, muddy pool”).

Noun

soil (plural soils)

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

Etymology 4

From Old French saoler, saouler (“to satiate”).

Verb

soil (third-person singular simple present soils, present participle soiling, simple past and past participle soiled)

1. 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.

   to soil a horse

Derived terms

• soilage (“fresh-cut forage”)

References

• soil in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• LOIs, Lois, Sol I, oils, silo, soli

Basque

Adjective

soil

1. bald

See also

• burusoil

Rohingya

Etymology

Cognate with Assamese ???? (saul), Bengali ??? (cal), Hindi ???? (c?val)

Noun

soil

1. rice