soil vs taint

soil

verb
  • To become dirty or soiled. 

  • To make invalid, to ruin. 

  • 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 enrich with soil or muck; to manure. 

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

  • To dirty one's clothing by accidentally defecating while clothed. 

  • To make dirty. 

noun
  • 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. 

  • Country or territory. 

  • Dung; compost; manure. 

  • 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. 

  • That which soils or pollutes; a stain. 

  • A bag containing soiled items. 

  • Faeces or urine etc. when found on clothes. 

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

  • A mixture of mineral particles and organic material, used to support plant growth. 

  • 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. 

taint

verb
  • To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting. 

  • To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally. 

  • To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner. 

  • To thrust ineffectually with a lance. 

  • To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into it. 

  • To be affected with incipient putrefaction. 

  • To spoil (food) by contamination. 

  • To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks. 

noun
  • A tinge, trace or touch. 

  • A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish. 

  • A marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks. 

  • A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food. 

  • A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect. 

  • An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner. 

  • The perineum. 

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