different between turf vs loam
turf
English
Etymology
From Middle English turf, torf, from Old English turf (“turf, sod, soil, piece of grass covered earth, greensward”), from Proto-West Germanic *turb, from Proto-Germanic *turbz (“turf, lawn”), from Proto-Indo-European *derb?- (“tuft, grass”). Cognate with Dutch turf (“turf”), Middle Low German torf (“peat, turf”) (whence German Torf and German Low German Torf), Swedish torv (“turf”), Norwegian torv (“turf”), Icelandic torf (“turf”), Russian ????? (trava, “grass”), Sanskrit ???? (darbhá, “a kind of grass”), ?????? (d??rv?, “bent grass”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /t?f/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /t??f/
- Rhymes: -??(?)f
- Homophone: TERF
Noun
turf (countable and uncountable, plural turfs or turves)
- (uncountable) A layer of earth covered with grass; sod.
- (countable) A piece of such a layer cut from the soil. May be used as sod to make a lawn, dried for peat, stacked to form earthen structures, etc.
- (countable, Ireland) A sod of peat used as fuel.
- (uncountable, slang) The territory claimed by a person, gang, etc. as their own.
- (uncountable, with "the") A racetrack; or the sport of racing horses.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
turf (third-person singular simple present turfs, present participle turfing, simple past and past participle turfed)
- To cover with turf; to create a lawn by laying turfs.
- (Ultimate Frisbee) To throw a frisbee well short of its intended target, usually causing it to hit the ground within 10 yards of its release.
- (business) To fire from a job or dismiss from a task.
- Eight managers were turfed after the merger of the two companies.
- (business) To cancel a project or product.
- The company turfed the concept car because the prototype performed poorly.
- (informal, transitive) To expel, eject, or throw out; to turf out.
- (medical slang, transitive) To transfer or attempt to transfer (a patient or case); to eschew or avoid responsibility for.
Derived terms
- turfer
- turf out
Translations
Anagrams
- ruft
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?rf/
- Hyphenation: turf
- Rhymes: -?rf
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch torf, from Old Dutch *torf, from Proto-Germanic *turbz (“turf, lawn”), from Proto-Indo-European *derb?- (“tuft, grass”).
Noun
turf m (plural turven, diminutive turfje n)
- peat
- A tally mark representing five.
- (informal) A fat book, tome; a book containing many pages.
Derived terms
- turfgas
- turfsteker
- turfwinning
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
turf
- first-person singular present indicative of turven
- imperative of turven
Anagrams
- ruft
Hungarian
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?turf]
- Hyphenation: turf
- Rhymes: -urf
Noun
turf (plural turfok)
- (sports) turf (a racetrack or the sport of racing horses)
Declension
Further reading
- turf in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *turbz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /turf/, [tur?f]
Noun
turf f (nominative plural tyrf)
- turf
Declension
Descendants
- Middle English: turf
- English: turf
References
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “turf”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Spanish
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
turf m (plural turfs)
- racetrack
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loam
English
Etymology
From Middle English lome, lame, lam, from Old English l?m (“clay, mud, mire, earth”), from Proto-Germanic *laimaz, *laimô (“clay”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley- (“mud, slime; to slip, slide”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Leem (“loam”), West Frisian liem (“loam”), Dutch leem (“loam”), German Lehm (“loam”). Related also to lime.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /l??m/
- Rhymes: -??m
- (US) IPA(key): /lo?m/
Noun
loam (countable and uncountable, plural loams)
- (geology) A type of soil; an earthy mixture of sand, silt and clay, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due.
- 1602 : William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act V scene 1
- Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander
- returneth to dust, the dust is earth, of earth we make
- loam, and of why that loam whereto he was converted
- might they not stop a beer-barrel?
- 1602 : William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act V scene 1
- (metalworking) A mixture of sand, clay, and other materials, used in making moulds for large castings, often without a pattern.
Derived terms
- loamy
Translations
Verb
loam (third-person singular simple present loams, present participle loaming, simple past and past participle loamed)
- To cover, smear, or fill with loam.
Translations
Derived terms
- loamer
Adjective
loam (not comparable)
- Made of loam; consisting of loam.
Further reading
- loam on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- AMLO, LMAO, Malo, lmao, loma, malo, mola
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