dirt vs bole

dirt and bole both are nouns.

dirt is an adjective but bole is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
dirt	Yes	Yes	No	No
bole	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, bole is a hyponym of dirt; that is, bole is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than dirt:

dirt: the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock
bole: a soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment)

Other hyponyms of dirt include marl, regosol, residual clay, residual soil, surface soil, topsoil, subsoil, undersoil, alluvial soil, bog soil, clay, clunch, desert soil, desertic soil, caliche, hardpan, fuller's earth, gilgai soil, gumbo, gumbo soil, humus, indurated clay, Indian red, laterite, loam, loess, mold, mould, clay, mud, podsol, podsol soil, podsolic soil, podzol, podzol soil, prairie soil, sand, sedimentary clay, silt, boulder clay, till, tundra soil, wiesenboden.

dirt (noun)	bole (noun)
disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people	the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber
anything regarded as making something unclean	a soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment)
the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock
obscene terms for feces

dirt (adjective)	bole (adjective)
(of roads) not leveled or drained; unsuitable for all year travel

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