Foul vs. Soul — What's the Difference?

Offensive to the senses, especially through having a disgusting smell or taste or being dirty

In many religious, philosophical, and mythological traditions, the soul is the incorporeal essence of a living being. Soul or psyche (Ancient Greek: ψυχή psykhḗ, of ψύχειν psýkhein, "to breathe", cf.

Wicked or immoral

The spiritual or immaterial part of a human being or animal, regarded as immortal.

Containing or full of noxious matter; polluted

Emotional or intellectual energy or intensity, especially as revealed in a work of art or an artistic performance

(of the weather) wet and stormy

The essence or embodiment of a specified quality

(in sport) an unfair or invalid stroke or piece of play, especially one involving interference with an opponent

A part of humans regarded as immaterial, immortal, separable from the body at death, capable of moral judgment, and susceptible to happiness or misery in a future state.

A disease in the feet of cattle

This part of a human when disembodied after death.

Contrary to the rules; unfairly.

In Aristotelian philosophy, an animating or vital principle inherent in living things and endowing them in various degrees with the potential to grow and reproduce, to move and respond to stimuli (as in the case of animals), and to think rationally (as in the case of humans).

Make foul or dirty; pollute

A human

(in sport) commit a foul against (an opponent)

A person considered as the embodiment of an intangible quality; a personification

(of a ship) collide with or interfere with the passage of (another)

A person's emotional or moral nature

Offensive to the senses; revolting

The central or integral part; the vital core

Having a bad odor or taste

A sense of emotional strength or spiritual vitality held to derive from black and especially African American cultural experience, expressed in areas such as language, social customs, religion, and music.

Rotten or putrid

Strong, deeply felt emotion conveyed by a speaker, performer, or artist

Containing dirt, impurities, or other foreign matter; foul water.

Soul music.

Clogged or bestrewn with unwanted material

The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality, often believed to live on after the person's death.

Overgrown or encrusted with weeds, barnacles, or other organisms. Used of a ship's bottom.

The spirit or essence of anything.

Entangled or enwrapped

Life, energy, vigor.

Morally detestable; wicked

(music) Soul music.

Vulgar or obscene

A person, especially as one among many.

Violating accepted standards or rules; dishonorable

An individual life.

Very disagreeable or displeasing; horrid

(math) A kind of submanifold involved in the soul theorem of Riemannian geometry.

Inclement or unfavorable

To endow with a soul or mind.

Irritable or upset

To beg on All Soul's Day.

(Sports) Contrary to the rules of a game or sport

(obsolete) To afford suitable sustenance.

(Baseball) Outside the foul lines

Sole.

Marked with editorial changes or corrections

By or for African-Americans, or characteristic of their culture; as, soul music; soul newspapers; soul food.

(Archaic) Ugly; unattractive.

To afford suitable sustenance.

(Sports) An infraction or a violation of the rules of play.

To indue with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.

(Baseball) A foul ball.

The spiritual, rational, and immortal part in man; that part of man which enables him to think, and which renders him a subject of moral government; - sometimes, in distinction from the higher nature, or spirit, of man, the so-called animal soul, that is, the seat of life, the sensitive affections and phantasy, exclusive of the voluntary and rational powers; - sometimes, in distinction from the mind, the moral and emotional part of man's nature, the seat of feeling, in distinction from intellect; - sometimes, the intellect only; the understanding; the seat of knowledge, as distinguished from feeling. In a more general sense, "an animating, separable, surviving entity, the vehicle of individual personal existence."

An entanglement or a collision.

The seat of real life or vitality; the source of action; the animating or essential part.

An instance of clogging or obstructing.

The leader; the inspirer; the moving spirit; the heart; as, the soul of an enterprise; an able general is the soul of his army.

A foul copy of a document.

Energy; courage; spirit; fervor; affection, or any other noble manifestation of the heart or moral nature; inherent power or goodness.

In a foul manner.

A human being; a person; - a familiar appellation, usually with a qualifying epithet; as, poor soul.

To make dirty or foul; pollute.

A pure or disembodied spirit.

To bring into dishonor; besmirch.

A perceived shared community and awareness among African-Americans.

To clog or obstruct.

Soul music.

To entangle or catch (a rope, for example).

The immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life

To encrust (a ship's hull) with foreign matter, such as barnacles.

A human being;

(Sports) To commit a foul against.

Deep feeling or emotion

(Baseball) To hit (a ball) outside the foul lines.

The human embodiment of something;

To become foul.

A secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s;

(Sports) To commit a foul.

(Baseball) To hit a ball outside the foul lines

To become entangled or twisted

To become clogged or obstructed.

Covered with, or containing unclean matter; dirty.

(of words or a way of speaking) Obscene, vulgar or abusive.

Detestable, unpleasant, loathsome.

Disgusting, repulsive; causing disgust.

(obsolete) Ugly; homely; poor.

Unpleasant, stormy or rainy.

Dishonest or not conforming to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.

(nautical) Entangled and therefore restricting free movement, not clear.

(technical) (with "of") Positioned on, in, or near enough to (a specified area) so as to obstruct it.

(baseball) Outside of the base lines; in foul territory.

(transitive) To make dirty.

(transitive) To besmirch.

(transitive) To clog or obstruct.

To entangle.

To make contact with an opposing player in order to gain advantage.

To commit a foul.

To hit outside of the baselines.

To hit a ball outside of the baselines.

(intransitive) To become clogged.

(intransitive) To become entangled.

To come into contact or collide with.

(sports) A breach of the rules of a game, especially one involving inappropriate contact with an opposing player in order to gain an advantage; for example, tripping someone up in soccer, or contact of any kind in basketball.

(bowling) A (usually accidental) contact between a bowler and the lane before the bowler has released the ball.

(baseball) A foul ball, a ball which has been hit outside of the base lines.

A bird.

An entanglement; a collision, as in a boat race.

In various games or sports, an act done contrary to the rules; a foul stroke, hit, play, or the like.

Covered with, or containing, extraneous matter which is injurious, noxious, offensive, or obstructive; filthy; dirty; not clean; polluted; nasty; defiled; as, a foul cloth; foul hands; a foul chimney; foul air; a ship's bottom is foul when overgrown with barnacles; a gun becomes foul from repeated firing; a well is foul with polluted water.

Scurrilous; obscene or profane; abusive; as, foul words; foul language.

Hateful; detestable; shameful; odious; wretched.

Loathsome; disgusting; as, a foul disease.

Ugly; homely; poor.

Not favorable; unpropitious; not fair or advantageous; as, a foul wind; a foul road; cloudy or rainy; stormy; not fair; - said of the weather, sky, etc.

Not conformed to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.; unfair; dishonest; dishonorable; cheating; as, foul play.

Having freedom of motion interfered with by collision or entanglement; entangled; - opposed to clear; as, a rope or cable may get foul while paying it out.

To make filthy; to defile; to daub; to dirty; to soil; as, to foul the face or hands with mire.

To incrust (the bore of a gun) with burnt powder in the process of firing.

To cover (a ship's bottom) with anything that impered its sailing; as, a bottom fouled with barnacles.

To entangle, so as to impede motion; as, to foul a rope or cable in paying it out; to come into collision with; as, one boat fouled the other in a race.

To become clogged with burnt powder in the process of firing, as a gun.

To become entagled, as ropes; to come into collision with something; as, the two boats fouled.

An act that violates of the rules of a sport

Hit a foul ball

Make impure;

Become or cause to become obstructed;

Commit a foul; break the rules

Spot, stain, or pollute;

Make unclean;

Become soiled and dirty

Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust;

Offensively malodorous;

Violating accepted standards or rules;

(of a baseball) not hit between the foul lines

(of a manuscript) defaced with changes;

Thoroughly unpleasant;

Characterized by obscenity;

Disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter;

Especially of a ship's lines etc;