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soilage en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /ˈsɔɪlɪd͡ʒ/

Etymology

From soil (“to feed animals fresh-cut forage”) + -age.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable, usually) Forage cut and fed to animals while still fresh.

Forms

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soilages Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

haylage · silage

Synonyms

greenchop

soilage en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • /ˈsɔɪlɪd͡ʒ/

Etymology

From soil (“to dirty”) + -age.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Act, process, or instance of soiling.
    • The majority of military surgeons treating acute injuries of the colon tended to exteriorize the wound as an artificial anus to prevent further soilage of the peritoneal cavity. 1979, George Tom Shires, Care of the Trauma Patient, McGraw-Hill Companies:
    • Collections need to be drained, the lung decorticated, and ongoing soilage of the chest controlled. In some cases, percutaneous drains are adequate to obtain source control. In more significant leaks, operative assessment may be required […] 2020, Virginia R Litle, Robert J Canelli, Peri-operative Management of the Thoracic Patient An Issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics, E-Book, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 361:
    • Anal soilage or leakage (usually not solid stool incontinence) is a manifestation noted frequently by both the patient and the examining physician. 2012, H. Randolph Bailey, Richard P. Billingham, Michael J. Stamos, Michael J. Snyder, Colorectal Surgery E-Book, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 490:
    • Minor incontinence (fecal soilage) includes incontinence to flatus and occasional seepage of liquid stool. 2018, Frank J. Domino, Robert A. Baldor, Jeremy Golding, Mark B. Stephens, The 5-Minute Clinical Consult 2019, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN:
    • The fear of defilement, violation of self and reification, is revealed by the way the respondents described the burglaries in which there was neither breakage, soilage, or, sometimes, any disorder. In such cases, burglary is called work and is said tot have been "cleanly done"[.] 1976, Irwin Altman, Human Behavior and Environment: Home environments, page 78:
  2. (uncountable) State or condition of being soiled.
    • Photograph showing soilage (discoloration) of cotton drill […] 1985, Gardner S. Haynes, Laboratory Corrosion Tests and Standards: A Symposium by ASTM Committee G-1 on Corrosion of Metals, Bal Harbour, FL, 14-16 Nov. 1983, ASTM International, →ISBN, page 271:

soilage en · NOUN · etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • /ˈsɔɪlɪd͡ʒ/

Etymology

From soil (“earth, ground”) + -age (“collection or appurtenance”).

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, uncountable) Soil.
    • […] which was pulled down in the year 1549. The bones of the dead, couched u in a Charnel under the Chappel were conveyed from thence to Finsbury Field […] and there laid on a Moorish Ground, in short space after raised by Soilage of the City, upon them to bear Three Wind Mills. The Chappel and Charnel were converted into Dwelling houses, Warehouses, and Sheds for Stationers, […] a. 1902, Strype's Stow, book 3, page 148, quoted in 1902, James Foster Wadmore, Some Account of the Worshipful Company of Skinners of London: Being the Guild Or Fraternity of Corpus Christi, page 155