Meaning of "manure" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD MANURE

From Medieval Latin manuopera; manual work.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF MANURE

manure  [məˈnjʊə]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MANURE

Manure is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb manure in English.

WHAT DOES MANURE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Manure

Manure is organic matter used as organic fertilizer in agriculture. Manures contribute to the fertility of the soil by adding organic matter and nutrients, such as nitrogen, that are trapped by bacteria in the soil. Higher organisms then feed on the fungi and bacteria in a chain of life that comprises the soil food web. It is also a product obtained after decomposition of organic matter like cow-dung which replenishes the soil with essential elements and add humus to the soil. In the past, the term “manure” included inorganic fertilizers, but this usage is now very rare.

Definition of manure in the English dictionary

The first definition of manure in the dictionary is animal excreta, usually with straw, used to fertilize land. Other definition of manure is any material, esp chemical fertilizer, used to fertilize land. Manure is also to spread manure upon.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO MANURE

PRESENT

Present

I manure

you manure

he/she/it manures

we manure

you manure

they manure

Present continuous

I am manuring

you are manuring

he/she/it is manuring

we are manuring

you are manuring

they are manuring

Present perfect

I have manured

you have manured

he/she/it has manured

we have manured

you have manured

they have manured

Present perfect continuous

I have been manuring

you have been manuring

he/she/it has been manuring

we have been manuring

you have been manuring

they have been manuring

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I manured

you manured

he/she/it manured

we manured

you manured

they manured

Past continuous

I was manuring

you were manuring

he/she/it was manuring

we were manuring

you were manuring

they were manuring

Past perfect

I had manured

you had manured

he/she/it had manured

we had manured

you had manured

they had manured

Past perfect continuous

I had been manuring

you had been manuring

he/she/it had been manuring

we had been manuring

you had been manuring

they had been manuring

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will manure

you will manure

he/she/it will manure

we will manure

you will manure

they will manure

Future continuous

I will be manuring

you will be manuring

he/she/it will be manuring

we will be manuring

you will be manuring

they will be manuring

Future perfect

I will have manured

you will have manured

he/she/it will have manured

we will have manured

you will have manured

they will have manured

Future perfect continuous

I will have been manuring

you will have been manuring

he/she/it will have been manuring

we will have been manuring

you will have been manuring

they will have been manuring

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would manure

you would manure

he/she/it would manure

we would manure

you would manure

they would manure

Conditional continuous

I would be manuring

you would be manuring

he/she/it would be manuring

we would be manuring

you would be manuring

they would be manuring

Conditional perfect

I would have manure

you would have manure

he/she/it would have manure

we would have manure

you would have manure

they would have manure

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been manuring

you would have been manuring

he/she/it would have been manuring

we would have been manuring

you would have been manuring

they would have been manuring

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you manure
we let´s manure
you manure

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to manure

Past participle

manured

Present Participle

manuring

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «MANURE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «manure» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of manure

compost · droppings · dung · excrement · fertilizer · muck · ordure

TRANSLATION OF MANURE

Find out the translation of manure to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of manure from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «manure» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 肥料
• Translator English - Spanish: estiércol
• English: manure
• Translator English - Hindi: खाद
• Translator English - Arabic: سَمَادٌ
• Translator English - Russian: навоз
• Translator English - Portuguese: estrume
• Translator English - Bengali: সার
• Translator English - French: fumier
• Translator English - Malay: Kotoran
• Translator English - German: Mist
• Translator English - Japanese: 堆肥
• Translator English - Korean: 거름
• Translator English - Javanese: Manure
• Translator English - Vietnamese: phân bón
• Translator English - Tamil: உரம்
• Translator English - Marathi: खत
• Translator English - Turkish: gübre
• Translator English - Italian: concime
• Translator English - Polish: nawóz
• Translator English - Ukrainian: гній
• Translator English - Romanian: băligar
• Translator English - Greek: κοπριά
• Translator English - Afrikaans: mis
• Translator English - Swedish: gödsel
• Translator English - Norwegian: gjødsel

10 QUOTES WITH «MANURE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word manure.

1

Alec Baldwin

Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy.

2

Ree Drummond

My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts.

3

Paul Engle

The corncob was the central object of my life. My father was a horse handler, first trotting and pacing horses, then coach horses, then work horses, finally saddle horses. I grew up around, on, and under horses, fed them, shoveled their manure, emptied the mangers of corncobs.

4

Robert Grosseteste

The return from cows and sheep in cheese is worth much money every day in the season, without calves and lambs, and without the manure, which all return corn and fruit.

5

Billie Holiday

They think they can make fuel from horse manure - now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.

6

D. H. Lawrence

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

7

Eleanor Mondale

I've always considered myself a physical person. I don't call myself a farm girl, but I did spend a lot of years shoveling manure and throwing hay, because I worked to pay most of my riding expenses.

8

Bill Pullman

Well, I can do certain jobs because smells don't bother me. But that means I'm usually the one at the ranch cleaning up all the manure.

9

Joel Salatin

We need to respect the fact that cows are herbivores, and that does not mean feeding them corn and chicken manure.

10

George Segal

What do I really think? What do I believe in, without the horse manure?

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MANURE»

Discover the use of manure in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to manure and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Holy Shit: Managing Manure to Save Mankind

In his insightful new book, Holy Shit: Managing Manure to Save Mankind, contrary farmer Gene Logsdon provides the inside story of manure-our greatest, yet most misunderstood, natural resource.

Gene Logsdon, 2010

Manure Matters: Historical, Archaeological and Ethnographic ...

When and How to Use Manure As noted in the NA (I: 368) manure in general is useful for all plants, according to the experience (Zzld al-tajriba) of the farmer. But at the same time it is not necessary to put manure on the highest quality soil (NA,  ...

Dr Richard Jones, 2013

Manure Use for Fertilizer and for Energy: Report to Congress

About 5% of all U.S. cropland is currently fertilized with livestock manure.

James M. MacDonald, United States. Department of Agriculture. Economic Research Service, 2010

Manure Management for Water Quality: Costs to Animal Feeding ...

Nutrients from livestock & poultry manure are key sources of water pollution.

Marc Ribaudo, 2007

The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure

But this is much more than a book on composting.

Joseph Jenkins, 2005

Hog Manure Management, the Environment and Human Health

This review evaluates the survival of zoonotic-based protozoan and bacterial pathogens in soil, water, and manure. We focus on several aspects related to the issue, including improper manure handling and foodborne illness, the effect of ...

Tiffany T.Y. Guan, Richard A. Holley, 2003

Animal Manure on Grassland and Fodder Crops.Fertilizer or ...

The theme selected was "Animal manure on grassland and fodder crops: Fertilizer or waste?

H.G. van der Meer, European Grassland Federation, 1987

Manure: Management, Uses and Environmental Impacts

This new book discusses varied topics on the management, uses and environmental impacts of manure, such as: the bioremediational technique of adding nitrite-oxidizing bacteria for reducing N2O emission during swine manure composting; ...

Carmen S. Dellaguardia, 2010

Growing sweet corn for the cannery

GREEN MANURE Rotations should include rapidly growing, short-season crops of either leguminous or nonleguminous plants that are plowed under for green manure. The legumes are an advantage in that, when the proper nitrogen-fixing ...

James Herbert Beattie, 1945

Farmyard Manure: Its Nature, Composition, and Treatment

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.

Charles Morton Aikman, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MANURE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term manure is used in the context of the following news items.

Osage manure service fined $5,575 for fish kill

OSAGE | The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has ordered an Osage-based commercial manure service to pay $5,575 for a manure ... «Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier, Jul 15»

Osage manure service fined $5,575 for fish kill - Globe Gazette

OSAGE | The Iowa DNR has ordered an Osage-based commercial manure service to pay $5,575 for a manure discharge resulting in ... «Mason City Globe Gazette, Jul 15»

France - Angry French farmers protest low meat prices with manure …

Almost 300 tractors and farm vehicles, including skips filled with manure, blocked access Monday to the cities of Caen and Lisieux, both located ... «FRANCE 24, Jul 15»

'You're killing us': Irate French farmers dump manure, block roads to …

Farmers have been protesting in France for several days, blocking roads to towns and tourist sites. They are dumping waste and manure in ... «RT, Jul 15»

Productivity and Modern-Day Horse Manure

Productivity and Modern-Day Horse Manure. Comment Now. Follow Comments Following Comments Unfollow Comments. “They just use your ... «Forbes, Jul 15»

McLanahan manure treatment offers tea or potable water

The farm has 800 cows and uses McLanahan's Nutrient Separation System to treat the manure of 80 of these cows generating approximately ... «Green Bay Press Gazette, Jul 15»

River near Antwerp seriously polluted with manure - The Brussels …

A large quantity of manure has leaked into the Petite Nèthe river, in the Antwerp region, following a technical glitch at the Vilatca veal farm. «The Brussels Times, Jul 15»

It's the manure, stupid

Our leading guardian of the water says: It's the manure, stupid. Though he is more of a glass half-full guy, Frank Szollosi of the National Wildlife ... «Toledo Blade, Jul 15»

Workshop to discuss manure as fertilizer

AFAN, in partnership with the University of Nebraska Extension Services, is offering this free workshop on the utilization of manure as an ... «Beatrice Daily Sun, Jul 15»

Chambersburg manure expo spreads waste, education

Phil Reed of Washington, Iowa, talks about the manure injection system that his company, VTI, manufactures on Wednesday afternoon at the ... «Herald-Mail Media, Jul 15»