turf
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Middle English turf, torf, from Old English turf (“turf, sod, soil, piece of grass-covered earth, greensward”), from Proto-West Germanic *turb (“turf, peat”), from Proto-Germanic *turbz (“turf, lawn”), from Proto-Indo-European *derbʰ- (“tuft, grass”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots turr, truff (“turf, peat”), Dutch turf (“turf”), Middle Low German torf (“peat, turf”) (whence German Torf and German Low German Torf), Danish tørv (“peat”), Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish torv (“turf”), Norn *torv (“peat”), French tourbe (“peat”), Finnish turve (“turf”), Lithuanian darbas (“bunch of leaves”), durpės (“peat”), Sanskrit दर्भ (darbhá, “a type of grass”), दूर्वा (dū́rvā, “bent grass”).
Not cognate with Danish torv (“square, market, marketplace”), which is instead inherited from Old Norse torg (“marketplace”), from Old East Slavic търгъ (tŭrgŭ, “trade, trading, commerce, trade square”), ultimately from Proto-Slavic *tъ̑rgъ (“merchandise, commodity, wares”).
Inflected forms:
form: turfs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: turves
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: turfs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: turfing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: turfed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: turfed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A layer of earth covered with grass; sod.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Miss Thorn began digging up the turf with her lofter: it was a painful moment for me. ¶ “You might at least have tried me, Mrs. Cooke,” I said.
It was a sixth successive defeat for Klopp in a major final and at the final whistle, with Karius burying his face into the turf, there was not exactly a stampede of team-mates wanting to console him.
gloss: A piece of such a layer cut from the soil. May be used as sod to make a lawn, dried for peat, stacked to form earthen structures, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: "It's an old custom the people had when they bought and sold land. They used to cut out a clod and hand it over to the buyer, and you weren't lawfully seised of your land - it didn't really belong to you - till the other fellow had actually given you a piece of it - like this." He held out the turves.
Frodo and Sam went forward and saw that amidst the clamorous host were set three high-seats built of green turves.
gloss: A block of peat used as fuel.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: In ordinary peat-bogs, however, where turves are cut, there is always a large percentage of waste peat resulting from the digging, drying or transport of the turves, which can be utilized only by moulding it.
[…] the fireman has to divide his time between getting up into the bunker to throw more turfs into the cab, and getting down on his hands and knees to get it into the firebox, and even then a reserve supply of turf must be carried on a truck behind the engine, and stops must be made on each steep ascent to raise more steam.
gloss: A thick, carpet-like bed of algae.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The turf layer is made up of filamentous and thallose red algae.
gloss: A surface of synthetic fibers made to look like grass; artificial turf.
pos: noun
tags: specifically
uncountable
examples: In climates where grass struggles to grow, turf is usually used instead on sports fields.
The Niners have nine games left on the schedule, and only one visit to a turf field. That turf in Seattle is not slit film; while the NFL admits slit film fields lead to more ankle sprains, the league insists that turf is otherwise no more dangerous than grass.
And accommodating all those events has made it harder and harder for teams to maintain grass fields. It's easier, cheaper and less time-consuming just to throw turf down and call it a day, hence artificial surfaces popping up even in outdoor stadiums and Sun-Belt cities such as Charlotte, N.C., and Nashville, Tenn.
Thunder Bay Coun. Mark Bentz has put forward a referral of a motion that would see the indoor turf facility capped at around $30 million. Councillors voted in favour of the decision, which will see further consultations with user groups about how to re-scope the project.
gloss: A territory claimed by a gang as their own.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
gloss: A person's domain or sphere of influence.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
uncountable
gloss: A racetrack, hippodrome.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
with-definite-article
gloss: The sport of racing horses.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
with-definite-article
gloss: To cover with turf; to create a lawn by laying turfs.
pos: verb
gloss: To throw a frisbee well short of its intended target, usually causing it to hit the ground within 10 yards of its release.
pos: verb
gloss: To fire from a job or dismiss from a task.
pos: verb
examples: Eight managers were turfed after the merger of the two companies.
gloss: To cancel a project or product.
pos: verb
examples: The company turfed the concept car because the prototype performed poorly.
gloss: To expel, eject, or throw out; to turf out.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: He has the mistaken idea that he is a lap dog, and loves to be nursed, especially by ladies, but eighty-five pounds on your lap is no joke, and he can never understand why he gets turfed off.
At the same time as College was being unceremoniously turfed from their premises, a similar process was affecting the Estcourt School.
gloss: To transfer or attempt to transfer (a patient or case); to eschew or avoid responsibility for.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: "Sure thing, I buffed her, and they turfed her to urology, but she bounced back to me!" […] They want to transfer responsibility for her to another branch of the hospital (turf her).
Derived words: artificial turf
AstroTurf
come with the turf
go with the turf
home turf
lilyturf
macroturf
on the turf
returf
Smurf turf
surf and turf
turf accountant
turf advisor
turfage
turf ant
turf bank
turfcutter
turfdom
turfen
turfgrass
turfism
turfite
turfless
turflike
turfman
turf maze
turf roof
turf-roof
turf-roofed
turf ski
turf spade
turf toe
turf war
turfwise
turfy
unturf
turfer
turf out
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