Definition of peat in English:

peat

noun piːtpit

mass noun

1A brown deposit resembling soil, formed by the partial decomposition of vegetable matter in the wet acidic conditions of bogs and fens, and often cut out and dried for use as fuel and in gardening.
mulch plants with leaf mould or peat
as modifier a peat bog
Example sentencesExamples
- The plant material, which forms deposits of peat locally, is likely the source of the phosphate.
- In marked contrast, needles of a variety of conifers are frequently abundant in peat and lake deposits.
- Other garden peat can contain chemicals that can harm discus fish so just be careful.
- The climate was temperate but windy, the terrain a mixture of downland, rocky hills and peat bogs.
- There is no air in a peat bog and, therefore, undrained peat is made up of 90% water.
- It may be desirable to amend the soil with sand or peat.
- It provides a good usable soil amendment for the garden and is certainly much less expensive than peat.
- It is believed to get its name from a long gone drainage channel which ran over a peat bog.
- Dig materials such as straw, peat, compost, and leaves into the soil, or lay them on as mulch.
- The route meanders up, over the rocks and then more peat bog.
- An energy tax would penalise industries which use energy based on fossil fuel, including oil, coal and peat.
- Potting soil contains rich organic material such as peat and various composted barks.
- The directive does require farmers to supply pigs with rooting materials such as straw, hay, wood, sawdust, compost or peat.
- The reason why it was so well preserved was that it was recovered from a peat bog.
- A lot of East Anglia was covered in peat bog, until they decided to drain it.
- The largest frozen peat bog in the world, lying in western Siberia, is melting, according to Russian scientists.
- Two rivers flowed between us and our destination, a miniature hut lost in an expanse of peat bog.
- Place the seeds in a plastic bag with a mixture of sand and peat or other suitable growing mix.
- Potting mixes containing peat seem to be particularly affected by fungus gnats.
- At 350 hectares, Foulshaw Moss is one of the largest remaining areas of peat bog habitat in Britain.
Synonyms
fertilizer, mulch
1. 1.1usually peatscount noun A cut piece of peat.
  he reached forward to add a couple of peats to the fire
  Example sentencesExamples
  Back into the sitting room they pulled the peats out of the fire and carried them outside on a shovel.
  The weather held good for us yesterday so we took the opportunity to get up on the moor and bag up the peats ready to bring in.
  First the stove had to be stoked up with peats, then I changed, dried my hair and made a cup of coffee.
  I have written about peat-cutting, drying, stacking and burning for different jobs, but last week I learned of a method of stacking peats that I had never heard of before.
  Even the locals who do cut the peats are mostly just doing it to have a big fire at New Year.

Derivatives

peaty

adjectivepeatier, peatiest ˈpiːtiˈpidi

And then the path, quite rough and peaty, curves to a sandy beach with a view that's a treat - across the water, half a mile straight to the dam.
Example sentencesExamples
- Some years ago, while trekking over the peaty moorland of the Western Isles, I stumbled upon it quite by accident.
- More elderly members of the party were helped over peaty ditches to the edge of the plantation.
- It grows in abundance on the peaty moors of Scotland.
- The ground was dark and peaty, and bounced gently beneath my feet.

Origin

Middle English: from Anglo-Latin peta, perhaps of Celtic origin.

Rhymes

accrete, autocomplete, beet, bittersweet, bleat, cheat, cleat, clubfeet, compete, compleat, complete, conceit, Crete, deceit, delete, deplete, discreet, discrete, eat, effete, élite, entreat, escheat, estreat, excrete, feat, feet, fleet, gîte, greet, heat, leat, leet, Magritte, maltreat, marguerite, meat, meet, meet-and-greet, mesquite, mete, mistreat, neat, outcompete, Pete, petite, pleat, receipt, replete, sangeet, seat, secrete, sheet, skeet, sleet, splay-feet, street, suite, sweet, teat, treat, tweet, wheat

Definition of peat in US English:

peat

nounpitpēt

1A brown deposit resembling soil, formed by the partial decomposition of vegetable matter in the wet acidic conditions of bogs and fens, and often cut out and dried for use as fuel and in gardening.
cuttings are rooted in a homemade mixture of equal parts peat and sand
as modifier a peat bog
Example sentencesExamples
- There is no air in a peat bog and, therefore, undrained peat is made up of 90% water.
- An energy tax would penalise industries which use energy based on fossil fuel, including oil, coal and peat.
- It provides a good usable soil amendment for the garden and is certainly much less expensive than peat.
- The climate was temperate but windy, the terrain a mixture of downland, rocky hills and peat bogs.
- It may be desirable to amend the soil with sand or peat.
- The reason why it was so well preserved was that it was recovered from a peat bog.
- It is believed to get its name from a long gone drainage channel which ran over a peat bog.
- The route meanders up, over the rocks and then more peat bog.
- Potting mixes containing peat seem to be particularly affected by fungus gnats.
- Two rivers flowed between us and our destination, a miniature hut lost in an expanse of peat bog.
- Other garden peat can contain chemicals that can harm discus fish so just be careful.
- In marked contrast, needles of a variety of conifers are frequently abundant in peat and lake deposits.
- The largest frozen peat bog in the world, lying in western Siberia, is melting, according to Russian scientists.
- A lot of East Anglia was covered in peat bog, until they decided to drain it.
- Dig materials such as straw, peat, compost, and leaves into the soil, or lay them on as mulch.
- The directive does require farmers to supply pigs with rooting materials such as straw, hay, wood, sawdust, compost or peat.
- Potting soil contains rich organic material such as peat and various composted barks.
- At 350 hectares, Foulshaw Moss is one of the largest remaining areas of peat bog habitat in Britain.
- Place the seeds in a plastic bag with a mixture of sand and peat or other suitable growing mix.
- The plant material, which forms deposits of peat locally, is likely the source of the phosphate.
Synonyms
fertilizer, mulch
1. 1.1usually peats A cut piece of peat.
  he reached forward to add a couple of peats to the fire
  Example sentencesExamples
  First the stove had to be stoked up with peats, then I changed, dried my hair and made a cup of coffee.
  Even the locals who do cut the peats are mostly just doing it to have a big fire at New Year.
  Back into the sitting room they pulled the peats out of the fire and carried them outside on a shovel.
  The weather held good for us yesterday so we took the opportunity to get up on the moor and bag up the peats ready to bring in.
  I have written about peat-cutting, drying, stacking and burning for different jobs, but last week I learned of a method of stacking peats that I had never heard of before.

Origin

Middle English: from Anglo-Latin peta, perhaps of Celtic origin.

单词	peat
释义	Definition of peat in English: peat noun piːtpit mass noun 1A brown deposit resembling soil, formed by the partial decomposition of vegetable matter in the wet acidic conditions of bogs and fens, and often cut out and dried for use as fuel and in gardening. mulch plants with leaf mould or peat as modifier a peat bog Example sentencesExamples The plant material, which forms deposits of peat locally, is likely the source of the phosphate. In marked contrast, needles of a variety of conifers are frequently abundant in peat and lake deposits. Other garden peat can contain chemicals that can harm discus fish so just be careful. The climate was temperate but windy, the terrain a mixture of downland, rocky hills and peat bogs. There is no air in a peat bog and, therefore, undrained peat is made up of 90% water. It may be desirable to amend the soil with sand or peat. It provides a good usable soil amendment for the garden and is certainly much less expensive than peat. It is believed to get its name from a long gone drainage channel which ran over a peat bog. Dig materials such as straw, peat, compost, and leaves into the soil, or lay them on as mulch. The route meanders up, over the rocks and then more peat bog. An energy tax would penalise industries which use energy based on fossil fuel, including oil, coal and peat. Potting soil contains rich organic material such as peat and various composted barks. The directive does require farmers to supply pigs with rooting materials such as straw, hay, wood, sawdust, compost or peat. The reason why it was so well preserved was that it was recovered from a peat bog. A lot of East Anglia was covered in peat bog, until they decided to drain it. The largest frozen peat bog in the world, lying in western Siberia, is melting, according to Russian scientists. Two rivers flowed between us and our destination, a miniature hut lost in an expanse of peat bog. Place the seeds in a plastic bag with a mixture of sand and peat or other suitable growing mix. Potting mixes containing peat seem to be particularly affected by fungus gnats. At 350 hectares, Foulshaw Moss is one of the largest remaining areas of peat bog habitat in Britain. Synonyms fertilizer, mulch 1.1usually peatscount noun A cut piece of peat. he reached forward to add a couple of peats to the fire Example sentencesExamples Back into the sitting room they pulled the peats out of the fire and carried them outside on a shovel. The weather held good for us yesterday so we took the opportunity to get up on the moor and bag up the peats ready to bring in. First the stove had to be stoked up with peats, then I changed, dried my hair and made a cup of coffee. I have written about peat-cutting, drying, stacking and burning for different jobs, but last week I learned of a method of stacking peats that I had never heard of before. Even the locals who do cut the peats are mostly just doing it to have a big fire at New Year. Derivatives peaty adjectivepeatier, peatiest ˈpiːtiˈpidi And then the path, quite rough and peaty, curves to a sandy beach with a view that's a treat - across the water, half a mile straight to the dam. Example sentencesExamples Some years ago, while trekking over the peaty moorland of the Western Isles, I stumbled upon it quite by accident. More elderly members of the party were helped over peaty ditches to the edge of the plantation. It grows in abundance on the peaty moors of Scotland. The ground was dark and peaty, and bounced gently beneath my feet. Origin Middle English: from Anglo-Latin peta, perhaps of Celtic origin. Rhymes accrete, autocomplete, beet, bittersweet, bleat, cheat, cleat, clubfeet, compete, compleat, complete, conceit, Crete, deceit, delete, deplete, discreet, discrete, eat, effete, élite, entreat, escheat, estreat, excrete, feat, feet, fleet, gîte, greet, heat, leat, leet, Magritte, maltreat, marguerite, meat, meet, meet-and-greet, mesquite, mete, mistreat, neat, outcompete, Pete, petite, pleat, receipt, replete, sangeet, seat, secrete, sheet, skeet, sleet, splay-feet, street, suite, sweet, teat, treat, tweet, wheat Definition of peat in US English: peat nounpitpēt 1A brown deposit resembling soil, formed by the partial decomposition of vegetable matter in the wet acidic conditions of bogs and fens, and often cut out and dried for use as fuel and in gardening. cuttings are rooted in a homemade mixture of equal parts peat and sand as modifier a peat bog Example sentencesExamples There is no air in a peat bog and, therefore, undrained peat is made up of 90% water. An energy tax would penalise industries which use energy based on fossil fuel, including oil, coal and peat. It provides a good usable soil amendment for the garden and is certainly much less expensive than peat. The climate was temperate but windy, the terrain a mixture of downland, rocky hills and peat bogs. It may be desirable to amend the soil with sand or peat. The reason why it was so well preserved was that it was recovered from a peat bog. It is believed to get its name from a long gone drainage channel which ran over a peat bog. The route meanders up, over the rocks and then more peat bog. Potting mixes containing peat seem to be particularly affected by fungus gnats. Two rivers flowed between us and our destination, a miniature hut lost in an expanse of peat bog. Other garden peat can contain chemicals that can harm discus fish so just be careful. In marked contrast, needles of a variety of conifers are frequently abundant in peat and lake deposits. The largest frozen peat bog in the world, lying in western Siberia, is melting, according to Russian scientists. A lot of East Anglia was covered in peat bog, until they decided to drain it. Dig materials such as straw, peat, compost, and leaves into the soil, or lay them on as mulch. The directive does require farmers to supply pigs with rooting materials such as straw, hay, wood, sawdust, compost or peat. Potting soil contains rich organic material such as peat and various composted barks. At 350 hectares, Foulshaw Moss is one of the largest remaining areas of peat bog habitat in Britain. Place the seeds in a plastic bag with a mixture of sand and peat or other suitable growing mix. The plant material, which forms deposits of peat locally, is likely the source of the phosphate. Synonyms fertilizer, mulch 1.1usually peats A cut piece of peat. he reached forward to add a couple of peats to the fire Example sentencesExamples First the stove had to be stoked up with peats, then I changed, dried my hair and made a cup of coffee. Even the locals who do cut the peats are mostly just doing it to have a big fire at New Year. Back into the sitting room they pulled the peats out of the fire and carried them outside on a shovel. The weather held good for us yesterday so we took the opportunity to get up on the moor and bag up the peats ready to bring in. I have written about peat-cutting, drying, stacking and burning for different jobs, but last week I learned of a method of stacking peats that I had never heard of before. Origin Middle English: from Anglo-Latin peta, perhaps of Celtic origin.
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