different between turf vs marl

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)

1. (uncountable) A layer of earth covered with grass; sod.
2. (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.
3. (countable, Ireland) A sod of peat used as fuel.
4. (uncountable, slang) The territory claimed by a person, gang, etc. as their own.
5. (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)

1. To cover with turf; to create a lawn by laying turfs.
2. (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.
3. (business) To fire from a job or dismiss from a task.

   Eight managers were turfed after the merger of the two companies.

4. (business) To cancel a project or product.

   The company turfed the concept car because the prototype performed poorly.

5. (informal, transitive) To expel, eject, or throw out; to turf out.
6. (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)

1. peat
2. A tally mark representing five.
3. (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

1. first-person singular present indicative of turven
2. 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)

1. (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)

1. 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)

1. racetrack

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: mäl, IPA^(key): /m??l/
• (General American) enPR: märl, IPA^(key): /m??l/
• Rhymes: -??(?)l

Etymology 1

From Middle English marle, from Old French marle, from Late Latin marglia, diminutive of marga (“marl”).

Alternative forms

• marle

Noun

marl (countable and uncountable, plural marls)

1. A mixed earthy substance, consisting of carbonate of lime, clay, and possibly sand, in very variable proportions, and accordingly designated as calcareous, clayey, or sandy.
   • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 231]:

     The surroundings were unearthly. It was not a fish setting—only bare rock, no trees, pungent sagebrush, and marl dust floating when a truck passed.

   Synonym: marlstone

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• greensand

Verb

marl (third-person singular simple present marls, present participle marling, simple past and past participle marled)

1. (transitive) To cover with the earthy substance called marl.

Etymology 2

Verb

marl (third-person singular simple present marls, present participle marling, simple past and past participle marled)

1. (nautical) To cover, as part of a rope, with marline, marking a peculiar hitch at each turn to prevent unwinding.

   Synonym: marline

Translations

References

Anagrams

• RAML