Turf

Definition: Turf

Turf

Noun

1. Surface layer of ground containing a matt of grass and grass roots.

2. The territory claimed by a juvenile gang as its own.

3. (informal) range of jurisdiction or influence: "a bureaucracy...chiefly concerned with turf...and protecting the retirement system".

Verb

1. Cover with turf.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "turf" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Dream Interpretation

Food & Agriculture

Mining

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

TURF

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Turf

Amusement

Athletic sports, gymnastics; archery, rifle shooting; tournament, pugilism; (contention); sports; horse racing, the turf; aquatics; skating, sliding; cricket, tennis, lawn tennis; hockey, football, baseball, soccer, ice hockey, basketball; rackets, fives, trap bat and ball, battledore and shuttlecock, la grace; pall-mall, tipcat, croquet, golf, curling, pallone, polo, water polo; tent pegging; tilting at the ring, quintain; greasy pole; quoits, horseshoes, discus; rounders, lacrosse; tobogganing, water polo; knurr and spell.

Arena

Noun: arena, field, platform; scene of action, theater; walk, course; hustings; stare, boards; (playhouse); amphitheater; Coliseum, Colosseum; Flavian amphitheater, hippodrome, circus, race course, corso, turf, cockpit, bear garden, playground, gymnasium, palestra, ring, lists; tiltyard, tilting ground; Campus Martins, Champ de Allars; campus.

Beginning

Handsel; take the first step, lay the first stone, cut the first turf; break ground, break the ice, break cover; pass the Rubicon, cross the Rubicon; open fire, open the ball; ventilate, air; undertake.

Contention

Competition, rivalry; corrivalry, corrivalship, agonism, concours, match, race, horse racing, heat, steeple chase, handicap; regatta; field day; sham fight, Derby day; turf, sporting, bullfight, tauromachy, gymkhana; boat race, torpids.

Fuel

Coal, wallsend, anthracite, culm, coke, carbon, charcoal, bituminous coal, tar shale; turf, peat, firewood, bobbing, faggot, log; cinder. (products of combustion); ingle, tinder, touchwood; sulphur, brimstone; incense; port-fire; fire-barrel, fireball, brand; amadou, bavin; blind coal, glance coal; German tinder, pyrotechnic sponge, punk, smudge; solid fueled rocket.

Intention

Drawing lots; sortilegy, sortition; sortes, sortes Virgilianae; rouge et noir, hazard, ante, chuck-a-luck, crack-loo, craps, faro, roulette, pitch and toss, chuck, farthing, cup tossing, heads or tails cross and pile, poker-dice; wager; bet, betting; gambling; the turf.

Gambler, gamester; man of the turf; adventurer; dicer.

Plain

Meadow, mead, haugh, pasturage, park, field, lawn, green, plat, plot, grassplat, greensward, sward, turf, sod, heather; lea, ley, lay; grounds; maidan, agostadero.

Vegetable

Bush, jungle, prairie; heath, heather; fern, bracken; furze, gorse, whin; grass, turf; pasture, pasturage; turbary; sedge, rush, weed; fungus, mushroom, toadstool; lichen, moss, conferva, mold; growth; alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan; blow, blowth; floret, petiole; pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia.

Crosswords: Turf

Czech (racetrack), Dutch (peat), French (turf), Hungarian (turf, turves), Romanian (turf), Spanish (turf).

I have a degree in psychology, it goes with the turf Games are fun. (Basic Instinct; writing credit: Joe Eszterhas)

It's A Turf War (Black or White; performing artist: Michael Jackson; writing credit: Michael Jackson)

Tanbark and Turf (1955)

Kings of the Turf (1941)

King of the Turf (1939)

Luck of the Turf (1937)

Les As du turf (1932)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Do-It-Yourself Marriage Enrichment: A Workshop on Your Own Time, on Your Own Terms, on Your Own Turf (reference)

• Growing Media for Ornamental Plants and Turf (reference)

• Secrets of Professional Turf Betting (reference)

• Turf Management for Golf Courses, 2nd Edition (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• American Turf Monthly (reference)

• Florida Turf Digest (reference)

• Golf And Sports Turf Australia (reference)

• New Zealand Turf Management Journal (reference)

• Turf & Ornamental Reference For Plant Protection Products (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• NFL Turf Talk (reference)

• Ninja Turf (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Turf (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Army Men Turf Wars (reference)

• Rival Turf (reference)

• Turf Masters (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Ottomanelli's Deluxe Surf & Turf (Serves 2) (reference)

• Ottomanelli's Grand Surf & Turf (Serves 3 - 4) (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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A slide describing the purpose of the eelgrass restoration and its partners. In June 1996 NOAA scientists transplanted 7000 eelgrass plants from Charlestown Pond to ten locations in Narragansett Bay. The project team returned the following September and found mixed results. In June 1997, the team expanded two of the successful sites and employed a new technique by transplanting turf. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

The first in a series of images showing NOAA scientists at the 1997 transplant site just before transplanting the eelgrass turf. Scientists worked in dry suits in the cold Bay waters and used surface air supplies at the mostly shallow sites. Zostera marina requires a specific set of physical conditions to thrive. The plants need light, nutrients and protection from excessive wave energy. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

The fifth in a series of images showing NOAA scientists at the 1997 transplant site just before transplanting the eelgrass turf. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

The sixth in a series of images showing NOAA scientists at the 1997 transplant site just before transplanting the eelgrass turf. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

The last in a series of images showing NOAA scientists at the 1997 transplant site just before transplanting the eelgrass turf. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

NOAA scientists prepare to receive trays of eelgrass turf for transplanting at one of the sites. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

John Catena hands a tray of eelgrass turf over the side of the boat to the scientists in the water. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A tray of eelgrass turf and plugs ready for transplant. Eelgrass, Zostera marina contributes substantially to the health of coastal ecosystems. Eelgrass meadows provide shelter and spawning habitat for fish and shellfish and the living blades or leaves provide food for waterfowl like brant and Canada Geese. And eelgrass is a critical element of the Bay's detrital food web. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Tifway variety turf grass grown in Lenox, Georgia. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.

District Conservationist Mary Leidner sets up a laser level on a field of turf grass. Lenox, Georgia. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

That was a smell of air and rain and turf and corduroy.

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Business

This new orientation came as a direct response to management consultants encroaching on traditional advertisement turf. Another trend which has increased the need for skilled staff (e.g., multimedia designers, internet art directors)is the increased fusion of marketing and advertisement techniques. (references)

Economic History

Indonesia

Inter-ministerial turf battles have also complicated the process. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

A turf

Expressions using "turf": lily turf ♦ man of the turf ♦ on the turf ♦ the turf ♦ turf accountant ♦ turf ant ♦ turf drain ♦ turf grass ♦ turf hedge ♦ turf house ♦ turf moss ♦ turf out ♦ turf spade. Additional references.

Beginning with "turf": turf-built, turf-clad, turf-covered, turf-cutters, turf-cutting, turf-faced, turf-level, turf-man, turf-mazes, turf-roofed, turf-sided, turf-stack, turf-than, turf-thatched, turf-wars.

Ending with "turf": non-turf.

Albanian

torfë (peat, peatery), terren (foothold, ground, land, links, location), plis bari. (various references)

Arabic 

‏كسا بإلأعشاب, ‏مضمار (course, racetrack), ‏قطاع (enclave, section, sector, strip), ‏حلبة سباق الخيل, ‏سباق الخيل (horse racing, race), ‏طرد (banish, banishment, bounce, bouncer, cashier, cast out, chuck, deport, deportation, disgrace, dislodge, dismiss, dismissal, dispossess, dispossession, disqualification, drive out, drum, eject, ejection, eliminate, elimination, evaporate, evict, eviction, expel, expulsion, fence, fight down, get off, hunt, in order of the boot, oust, ouster, pitch, poke, put out, removal, remove, repel, rout, sack, scat, send, send packing, sending away, shake, shrift, sling out, spurn, throw out, toss, toss out, turf out, turn away, turn off, turn out), ‏طبقة عشب, ‏أرض محجوزة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

чим (sod, sward), тревна площ (grass, grassplot, lawn, sward), трева (grass, herb, herbage), торф (peat, sward), територия за действие, покривам с чипове. (various references)

Chinese 

草皮 (sod, Turfs), 草地 (lawn, meadow, sod). (various references)

Czech

rašelina (peat), pokrýt drnem, drn (greensward, sod, sward). (various references)

Danish

graestoerv (stand of grass), graesmaatte (lawn carpet roll). (various references)

Dutch

zode (sod, sod of grass), graszode (sod, sod of grass). (various references)

Esperanto

gazonero (sod, sod of grass). (various references)

Farsi 

مرغزار (Lawn, Meadow, Prairie), چمن (Arbor, Grass, Green, Lawn, Meadow, Prairie), کلوخ چمنی , طبقه فوقانی خاک , ذغال سنگ نارس (Peat), خاک ریشه دار, باچمن پوشاندن . (various references)

Finnish

nurmiturve. (various references)

French

gazon. (various references)

German

Rasen (belt, career, court, dash, field, grass, green, hurtle, lawn, lawns, pitch, power, race, rage, raging, rave, scorch, sod, spin along, sward, tear, to rave, to rush, turfs). (various references)

Greek 

έδαφοσ με χλόη, ιπποδρόμιο (circus, hippodrome, racetrack), χλόη (grass, lawn, sward, verdure), χλωροτάπης (stand of grass), χορτόπλινθος (stand of grass). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשתול עשב, תחום �"פעול�" (field, purview), שכבת עשב, �"שא�" (lawn, sward). (various references)

Hungarian

gyep (green, lawn, sod, sward, turves). (various references)

Indonesian

gambut (peat moss). (various references)

Italian

zolla erbosa (sod, sward). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

芝草 (lawn, sod), 芝 (lawn, sod). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しばくさ (lawn, sod), しば (brushwood, firewood, lawn, sod). (various references)

Korean 

뗏장 (Turfs). (various references)

Manx

scrah (green sod, scraw, sod), scraa (divot, green sod, scale, scraw), foain (green, sward), foaid (block of peat, divot, sod), fank (sheep pen), cur scraa er. (various references)

Pig Latin

urftay

Portuguese

turfa (peat, stand of grass), relva (carpet, grass, green, herbage, lawn, sward, tuft). (various references)

Romanian

turf, hipodrom (course, hippodrome, racecourse), gazon (grass, greensward, sod, sward), curse de cai, brazdã de iarbã, brazdã (balk, baulk, bed, clod, furrow, list, rut, swath, trace, track, wake). (various references)

Russian 

торф (peat). (various references)

Scottish

tobhta, tota (a rower's bend), sgrath (outer skin or rind, sod), fòid (clod, peat, sod), f� l (a spade, peat spade, scythe, spade). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

trkalište (racecourse, racetrack), treset (peat, peat coal), teritorija maloletničke bande, konjske trke (race meeting), busen (clod, cluster, greensward, sod). (various references)

Spanish

tepe, césped (grass, green, greensward, lawn, sod, sward). (various references)

Swedish

torva. (various references)

Turkish

turba (peat), kesek (clod), hipodrom (hippodrome), çimen döşemek, çimen (bent, bent grass, divot, grass, greensward, lawn, meadow grass, sod, sward), çim saha, çim ekmek, çim (grass, lawn, sod, sward, swarded), çetenin bölgesi. (various references)

Ukrainian

торф (peat), вистилати дерном, дерен (divot, grass, greensward, sod, sward). (various references)

Welsh

tywarchen (sod). (various references)

cæspes, glebae, glebas, glebis, gramen. (various references)

sode. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "turf": turfed, turfier, turfiest, turfing, turfless, turflike, turfman, turfmen, turfs, turfski, turfskiing, turfskiings, turfskis, turfy. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Turf" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: durf, gurf, murf, struf, tarf, terf, terif, tirf, tirrf, toraf, torf, tru, Truf, trufe, truff, truft, trur, truv, truz, tuf, tufi, Tufl, tufo, Tuirc, tura, turb, turc, turd, ture, turfe, turi, turl, turo, turp, turq, turr, turrr, turs, turt, turu, Tzur, urf. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: fur, rut.

-2 letters: ut.

+1 letter: fruit, turfs, turfy.

+2 letters: artful, fluter, fourth, fruits, fruity, frusta, future, refute, truffe, tufter, turfed.

+3 letters: antifur, brutify, facture, faitour, feature, fixture, floruit, flouter, fluster, fluters, flutier, flutter, foregut, fortune, fourths, fractur, fractus, fraktur, fraught, fretful, fruited, fruiter, frustum, functor, furcate, furmety, furmity, further, furtive, fustier, futharc, futhark, futhorc, futhork, futural, futures, hurtful, outfire, putrefy, refutal, refuted, refuter, refutes, restful, restuff, ruthful, stuffer, surfeit, tartufe, tearful, trayful, truffes, truffle, tufters, tuftier, turfier, turfing, turfman, turfmen, turfski, turnoff, updraft, upfront, wafture.