Difference between Dust and Dirt

What is the difference between Dust and Dirt?

Dust vs. Dirt

Dust is made of fine dry powdery particles of solid matter while dirt is an unclean matter, a filthy or soiling substance (such as mud, dust) that makes a surface not clean AKA dirty.

Dust as a noun is fine, dry particles of matter while Dirt as a noun is soil or earth.

Dust

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to remove dust from to remove dust; to clean by removing dust Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth to spray or cover something with fine powder or liquid

Part of speech: noun

Definition: fine, dry particles of matter

Dirt

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Soil or earth.A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance.Previously unknown negative facts (or invented "facts") about a person, gossip.

We hope you now know whether to use Dust or Dirt in your sentence.

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