dirt vs hardpan

hardpan vs dirt

dirt and hardpan both are nouns.

dirt is an adjective but hardpan is not an adjective.

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

As nouns, hardpan is a hyponym of dirt; that is, hardpan 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
hardpan: crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions

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, fuller's earth, gilgai soil, gumbo, gumbo soil, humus, indurated clay, Indian red, laterite, loam, loess, mold, mould, clay, mud, bole, podsol, podsol soil, podsolic soil, podzol, podzol soil, prairie soil, sand, sedimentary clay, silt, boulder clay, till, tundra soil, wiesenboden.

dirt (noun)	hardpan (noun)
disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people	crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions
anything regarded as making something unclean
the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock
obscene terms for feces

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

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