The difference between Earth and Soil
When used as nouns, earth means soil, whereas soil means a mixture of sand and organic material, used to support plant growth.
When used as verbs, earth means to connect electrically to the earth, whereas soil means to make dirty.
Earth is also proper_noun with the meaning: our planet, third out from the sun.
check bellow for the other definitions of Earth and Soil
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Earth as a noun (uncountable):
Soil.
Examples:
"This is good earth for growing potatoes."
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Earth as a noun (uncountable):
Any general rock-based material.
Examples:
"She sighed when the plane's wheels finally touched earth."
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Earth as a noun:
The ground, land (as opposed to the sky or sea).
Examples:
"Birds are of the sky, not of the earth."
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Earth as a noun (British):
A connection electrically to the earth ( ground); on equipment: a terminal connected in that manner.
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Earth as a noun:
A fox's home or lair.
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Earth as a noun:
The world of our current life (as opposed to heaven or an afterlife).
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Earth as a noun (alchemy, philosophy, and, Taoism):
The aforementioned soil- or rock-based material, considered one of the .
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Earth as a verb (UK, transitive):
To connect electrically to the earth.
Examples:
"synonyms: ground"
"That noise is because the amplifier is not properly earthed."
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Earth as a verb (transitive):
To bury.
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Earth as a verb (transitive):
To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den.
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Earth as a verb (intransitive):
To burrow.
Examples:
"rfquotek Tickell"
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Soil as a noun (uncountable):
A mixture of sand and organic material, used to support plant growth.
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Soil as a noun (uncountable):
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.
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Soil as a noun (uncountable):
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.
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Soil as a noun:
Country or territory.
Examples:
"The refugees returned to their native soil."
"Kenyan soil"
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Soil as a noun:
That which soils or pollutes; a stain.
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Soil as a noun:
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.
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Soil as a noun:
Dung; compost; manure.
Examples:
"night soil"
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Soil as a verb (transitive):
To make dirty.
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Soil as a verb (intransitive):
To become dirty or soiled.
Examples:
"Light colours soil sooner than dark ones."
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Soil as a verb (transitive, figurative):
To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
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Soil as a verb (reflexive):
To dirty one's clothing by accidentally defecating while clothed.
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Soil as a verb:
To make invalid, to ruin.
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Soil as a verb:
To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
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Soil as a noun (uncountable, euphemistic):
Faeces or urine etc. when found on clothes.
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Soil as a noun (countable, medicine):
A bag containing soiled items.
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Soil as a noun:
A wet or marshy place in which a boar or other such game seeks refuge when hunted.
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Soil as a verb:
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 (such food having the effect of purging them), to purge by feeding on green food.
Examples:
"to soil a horse"