different between dirt vs macadam

English

Alternative forms

• durt (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English drit (“excrement”), from Old Norse drit (“excrement”), from Proto-Germanic *drit?, *drit? (“excrement”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?reyd-, *treyd?- (“to have diarrhea”). Cognate with Norwegian dritt (“excrement”), Icelandic drit (“bird excrement”), Dutch drijten (“to defecate”), drits (“dirt, mud, filth”) and dreet (“excrement”), Low German drieten (“to defecate”), Driet (“shit”), regional German Driss (“shit”), Old English ?edr?tan (“to defecate”), Albanian ndyrë (“dirty, filthy”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dû(r)t, IPA^(key): /d??t/
• (General American) enPR: dûrt, IPA^(key): /d?t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Noun

dirt (usually uncountable, plural dirts)

1. (chiefly US) Soil or earth.
2. A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance.

   Synonym: filth

3. Previously unknown facts, or the invented "facts", about a person.

   Synonyms: gossip, kompromat
4. (figuratively) Meanness; sordidness.
   • 1810, W. Melmoth (translator), Letters of Pliny

     honours […] thrown away upon dirt and infamy

5. (mining) In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
6. freckles
   • 1983 Pat Phoenix Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt page 158

     I'm one of Charlie's Angels too, but I'm the one with the dirty face.

   • 2005 Kevin O'Hara, "Last of the Donkey Pilgrims: A Man's Journey Through Ireland" page 244

     a dirty-faced redhead poked a soiled kerchief beneath my nose, and charmlessly wheedled, "Spare coppers, mister, Spare coppers!" This runny-nosed waif, a "knacker" in the Dublin vernacular, was of the traveling breed who had of late given up their painted wagons for the grimy ghettos of the city. The child -God Bless the Mark- had freckles that splotched her face as though God had applied them too hurriedly with a blunt brush.

   • 2016 Lindsay Bowman, To The Girls With Dirt On Their Faces

     Whatever you love about your freckles, they make you unique and beautiful. Don't always feel that you need to clean that dirt off your face with that foundation powder or contour layers. You're naturally beautiful as you are!

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

dirt (third-person singular simple present dirts, present participle dirting, simple past and past participle dirted)

1. (transitive, rare) To make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty

Anagrams

• tri-D

English

Etymology

Named after Scottish engineer John Loudon McAdam (1756–1836), who invented the process of macadamization. Used for describing road surfaces originally constructed using the McAdam method, but now sometimes used for any road or street.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m??kæd?m/

Noun

macadam (countable and uncountable, plural macadams)

1. (uncountable) The surface of a road consisting of layers of crushed stone (usually tar-coated for modern traffic).
2. (US, dated, countable) Any road or street.

Derived terms

• tarmac
• tarmacadam

Translations

Verb

macadam (third-person singular simple present macadams, present participle macadaming or macadamming, simple past and past participle macadamed or macadammed)

1. (transitive) To cover or surface with macadam.

See also

• asphalt

Further reading

• macadam on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Spanish

Noun

macadam m (plural macadams or macadam)

1. macadam