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Definition: Manure |
ManureNoun1. Any animal or plant material used to fertilize land especially animal excreta usually with litter material. Verb1. Spread manure, as for fertilization. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "manure" was first used: 14th century. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of seeing manure, is a favorable omen. Much good will follow the dream. Farmers especially will feel a rise in fortune. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | Mineral or organic matter added to the soil to enrich it in plant nutrients. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Mixture of droppings(dung)and urine, and possibly also bedding occuring in connection with a cowshed; cf. solid manure, liquid manure, night soil. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Literature | Manure (2 syl.) means hand-work (French, main-oeuvre), tillage by manual labour. It now means the dressing applied to lands. Milton uses it in its original sense in Paradise Lost, iv. 628:- "Yon flowery arbours, ... with branches overgrown That mock our scant manuring." In book xi. 26 he says, the repentant tears of Adam brought forth better fruits than all the trees of Paradise that his hands manured in the days of innocence. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Multilingual Slang | Slovak (hovno). (references) |
Weather | Dung and urine of animals that can be used as a form of organic fertilizer. See fertilizer, organic fertilizer. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Manure is the term used to refer to the droppings or feces of plant-eating mammals. Their droppings consist of large amounts of partially digested plant material broken down into small fragments. As the bacteria in their digestive systems are largely harmless to humans, manure is often used for fertiliser.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Manure."
Synonym: ManureSynonym: muck (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Agriculture | Verb: cultivate; till the soil; farm, garden; sow, plant; reap, mow, cut; manure, dress the ground, dig, delve, dibble, hoe, plough, plow, harrow, rake, weed, lop and top; backset. |
Aid | Cradle, nourish; nurture, nurse, dry nurse, suckle, put out to nurse; manure, cultivate, force; foster, cherish, foment; feed the flame, fan the flame. |
Uncleanness | Spawn, offal, gurry; lientery; garbage, carrion; excreta; slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria; faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap, sewage, sewerage; muck; coprolite; guano, manure, compost. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | You know, one of those manure spreaders jackknifed on the Santa Ana. God-awful mess (Fletch; writing credit: Andrew Bergman) Don't tell me you believe this horse manure! (Signs; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan) When you consider the other choices, manure is actually pretty refreshing (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) You know manure. (The Young Ones; writing credit: Ben Elton; Rik Mayall) Humans are machines for generating manure. (Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things; writing credit: Bob Clark; Alan Ormsby) | |
Clever | Even in a pile of manure, a flower will grow. (references; author: unknown) | |
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![]() | A total of 10,00 turkeys are raised in each building in Benton, Arkansas. Manure and wood chips used for bedding are then composted and used for fertilizer on adjacent pastures. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. | ![]() | Concrete-lined manure storage pond with cattle barn and push-off slope. Newaygo County, Michigan. Credit: Fred Gasper. |
![]() | Proper waste management on the farm for environmental protection. Landowner and NRCS staff check manure spreader in northern Louisiana. Credit: Bob Nichols. | ![]() | Dairy Waste Management--Waste Treatment Lagoon. Containing manure and using it on the farm. East Loiusiana. Credit: Bob Nichols. |
![]() | Yamilette Suarez, NRCS Agricultural Engineer, and dairy farmer, York County, PA, discuss the construction of a manure storage tank on dairy farm. [Slide 97CS3107]. Credit: Bob Nichols. | ![]() | Dairy manure storage structure. Credit: Katherine Gugulis. |
![]() | Roofed and concrete wall solid manure stacking facility with settling basin and filter strip. Resource Conservationist Tom Adams and landowner in foreground. Grand Traverse County, Michigan. Credit: Lynn Betts. | ![]() | Cows in lot with excessive manure buildup. Montcalm County, Michigan. Credit: Lynn Betts. |
![]() | Oscar Stevens (left) and Craig Odell (right), NRCS, District Conservationist discuss the benefits of composting chicken manure. Stevens is collecting a sample for nutrient analysis. Credit: USDA. | ![]() | Manure Recycling. Credit: USDA. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Thomas Jefferson | The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Time Enough for Love | Robert Heinlein | A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | As I saw no manure, I judged that they meant to skim the land, as I had done, thinking the soil was deep and had lain fallow long enough |
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Health | Vegetables can become contaminated from the soil or from manure used as fertilizer. (references) | |
Unpasteurized milk can become contaminated if the cow has an infection with Campylobacter in her udder or the milk is contaminated with manure. (references) | ||
Business | Much of the waste and by-products arising on farms consists of biodegradable organic matter such as manure, slurry, and silage effluent and crop residues. (references) | |
Conventional manure spreaders continued to decrease due to the appearance on the market of machines with vertical beaters, which represented 53% of total sales. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Manure" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.58% of the time. "Manure" is used about 226 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.58% | 216 | 20,583 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2.65% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.77% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 226 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "manure": artificial manure ♦ barn manure ♦ barn yard manure ♦ barnyard manure ♦ chemical manure ♦ chicken manure ♦ cow manure ♦ farmyard manure ♦ fold yard manure ♦ green manure ♦ horse manure ♦ liquid manure ♦ manure effluent ♦ manure heap ♦ manure spreader ♦ stable manure. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "manure": manure-encrusted, manure-spreading. | |
Ending with "manure": town-manure. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "manure"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | plehëroj (dung, fertilize), pleh organik, pleh kafshësh (dung). (various references) | |
Arabic | سماد (compost, dressing, muck), سمد (dress, fertilize), روث (dropping, droppings, dung, muck, turd). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | торя (compost, dress, dung, fat, fertilize, muck, nourish), тор (dressing, fertilizer, ordure, soil), наторявам (nourish, sweeten). (various references) | |
Chinese | 肥料 (fertilizer). (various references) | |
Czech | hnojit (fertilize, muck), hnùj (dung, muck). (various references) | |
Danish | gødning (fertilizer). (various references) | |
Dutch | mest (fertilizer). (various references) | |
Esperanto | sterko (fertilizer). (various references) | |
Faeroese | tøð (fertilizer). (various references) | |
Farsi | کودکشاورزی , کوددادن (Compost, Dung). (various references) | |
Finnish | lanta (droppings, dung, excrement). (various references) | |
French | fumier, engrais. (various references) | |
Frisian | dong (fertilizer). (various references) | |
German | Mist (blow, bother, cobblers, crap, droppings, dung, fertilizer, garbage, muck, punk, rats, rubbish, shucks, trash, tripe), Dünger (dung, fertilizer, manures), Dung (dung, muck), düngen (fertilize). (various references) | |
Greek | κοπριά (dung, muck), λίπασμα (fertiliser, fertilizer). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לזבל (fertilize), ל"שן (fertilize), זבל (compost, dung, excrement, garbage, ordure, rubbish, trash), "שן (abundance, creamy, fatness, fertile, fertilizer, oil, plump). (various references) | |
Hungarian | trágya (chip, dung, excrement, fertilizer, muck, ordure), ganéj (chip, dung, muck). (various references) | |
Indonesian | memupuk (cultivate, fertilize, foster), pupuk (compost, fertilizer). (various references) | |
Italian | letame (dung, muck), concime (compost, dung, muck). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 肥料 (fertilizer), 肥料 (fertilizer), 肥やし (dung, fertiliser, night soil), 肥 (dung, fertiliser, night soil), 積み肥 (compost), 廐肥 (compost), 下肥 (night soil). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きゅうひ (compost, provision of expenses, scholarship), しも"え (night soil), ひりょう (fertilizer), つみ"え (compost), "やし (dung, fertiliser, night soil), "え (dung, fertiliser, night soil, voice). (various references) | |
Korean | 두엄. (various references) | |
Manx | toarrey (dung, stools), toarraghey (manuring), lhiasaghey (amendment, appendix, appendix book, atone, atonement, compensate, compensation, correct, correct as text, correction, cultivate, cultivation, culture, cure, curing, develop, developing, dress, dressing, dung, dunging, enrich, expiate, expiation, fertilize, fertilizer, furtherance, husband, husband as land, improvement, imputation, manuring, propitiate, propitiation, reclaim, reclamation, recompense, repair, replenish, replenishment, restitution, revise, revision, rub up, season), lhiasagh (amends, atonement, compensation, recompense, redress, reparation, reprisal, retribution, revisionary), eoylley (excrement, faeces, fertilizer), eoyllaghey (dung, manuring). (various references) | |
Papiamen | mèst (fertilizer). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anuremay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | estrume (chip, fertilizer), esterco (dirt, dung, fertilizer, muck, ordure, scat), adubo (compost). (various references) | |
Romanian | gunoi (carrion, dirt, dung, garbage, kitchen stuff, litter, mess, muck, offscourings, refuse, rubbish, scum, soil, waste), bãlegar (muck, ordure), îngrãşãmânt (dressing, fertilizer, soil), îngrãşa (batten, cram, fatten, fertilize, plump). (various references) | |
Russian | навоз (dung, muck, ordure). (various references) | |
Scottish | todhar (a field manured by, dung), leasaich (correct, cultivate, improve, rectify), innear (dung), aolach (dung). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nađubriti (fertilize, muck, top dress), đubriti (dung, fertilize). (various references) | |
Spanish | estiércol (dung, muck, ordure), abono (compost, deposit, dressing, fertilization, fertilizer, guarantee, manuring, payment, receipt, season ticket, subscription). (various references) | |
Sranan | doti (dirty, earth, fertilizer, filthy, land, nasty, soil, soiled, unclean). (various references) | |
Swedish | gödsel (dung), gödsla (dung, fertilize, muck), dynga (dung, fertilizer, muck, ordure). (various references) | |
Turkish | gübrelemek (compost, dung, fatten, fertilize, muck), gübre (cowpat, dressing, droppings, dung, fertilizer, muck, ordure, plant-food, soil). (various references) | |
Turkmen | dцkьn (nightsoil). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | угноювати (muck, soil), удобрювати (fertilize, hearten, nourish), гній (atter, dung, matter, muck, ordure, purulence, pus, soil), добриво (fertilizer). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | phân bón. (various references) | |
Welsh | teilo (dung), tail (dung), gwrteithio (cultivate, culture), gwrtaith (culture), achlesu (protect, shelter, succor), achles (protection, refuge). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | lum. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | fimus, stercore, stercoris, stercus. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | manouvrer. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "manure": manured, manurer, manurers, manures. (additional references) | |
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"Manure" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amnure, amure, anuer, Kanturek, Maamur, macure, madurai, majure, makura, Manarov, Manburon, Mancur, manera, manere, maneuer, maneure, maniere, Mannari, manora, manouvre, Mantree, manuar, manuer, manule, Manura, manurra, manyear, manzur, Maouri, maquerel, Masurel, mauer, maur, maure, maury, Mayuree, Mazure, Mazuri, Meanguera, Menabrea, menue, menuer, Menura, menure, meure, minere, Monaru, Monzur, Mujuru, munera, Nanura. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "manure" (pronounced munuh"r) |
| 4 | -u n uh" r | entrepreneur. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-m-n-r-u" | |
-1 letter: namer, ramen, reman, rumen, unarm. | |
-2 letters: amen, arum, earn, mane, mare, maun, mean, menu, mura, mure, name, near, nema, neum, ream, rune, urea. | |
-3 letters: amu, ane, are, arm, ear, eau, emu, era, ern, mae, man, mar, men, mun, nae, nam, ram, ran, rem, rue, rum, run, urn. | |
-4 letters: ae, am, an, ar, em, en. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-m-n-r-u" | |
+1 letter: duramen, enamour, fraenum, humaner, manured, manurer, manures, maunder, neuroma, numeral, surname, unarmed, unmaker. | |
+2 letters: aneurism, aneurysm, argentum, argument, duramens, enamours, fraenums, geranium, maneuver, manicure, manurers, maunders, menstrua, mensural, muraenid, neuromas, numeracy, numerals, numerary, numerate, penumbra, prehuman, ramentum, ramequin, routeman, ruminate, superman, surnamed, surnamer, surnames, underarm, undreamt, unframed, unharmed, unmakers, unmarked, unmarred, unmasker, unwarmed, urinemia. | |
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