Word: ground Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem-der. Proto-Germanic *grunduz Old English grund Middle English ground English ground From Middle English ground, from Old English grund, from Proto-West Germanic *grundu, from Proto-Germanic *grunduz. Cognate with West Frisian grûn, Dutch grond and German Grund. (to punish): Compare (to bring) down to earth, to come down to earth. Pronunciation: /ɡɹaʊnd/, /ɡɹʊnd/ 1. To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground. Labels: US, transitive Example: These geomagnetically induced currents (GICs) can become a hazard when they flow through conducting infrastructure, usually entering and exiting networks where equipment is grounded to Earth. 2. To electrocute. Labels: Philippines, transitive 3. To punish, especially a child or teenager, by forcing them to stay at home and/or give up certain privileges. Labels: transitive Example: If you don't clean your room, I'll have no choice but to ground you. Example: Eric, you are grounded until further notice for lying to us about where you were last night! 4. To forbid (an aircraft or pilot) to fly. Labels: transitive Example: Because of the bad weather, all flights were grounded. 5. To give a basic education in a particular subject; to instruct in elements or first principles. Labels: transitive Example: Jim was grounded in maths. 6. To place a bat or part of the body on the ground to avoid being run out. 7. To hit a ground ball. Compare fly (verb (regular)) and line (verb). Example: [Ichiro Suzuki] went 0 for 4, popping out in foul territory, grounding out to second, and striking out looking. And then, in the top of the eighth inning with a runner on second, the “True Hit King” grounded out to short, just barely failing to beat it out. Example: The Twins scored three times in the eighth to make it 9-4 and loaded the bases with no outs. Jeurys Familia got Willians Astudillo to ground into a double play, limiting the damage. 8. To place something on the ground. Labels: transitive 9. To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed. Labels: intransitive Example: The ship grounded on the bar. 10. To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly. Example: being rooted and grounded in love Example: So far from warranting any inference to the existence of a God, would, on the contrary, ground even an argument to his negation. 11. To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching, or as paper or other materials with a uniform tint as a preparation for ornament. 12. To improve or focus the mental or emotional state of. Labels: transitive Example: I ground myself with meditation. 13. To complement a machine learning model with relevant information it was not trained on. Labels: transitive Example: We design WikiChat (Figure 1) to ground LLMs using Wikipedia to achieve the following objectives. While LLMs tend to hallucinate, our chatbot should be factual. Example: But the technology has evolved rapidly over the past year or so. Today’s systems can incorporate real-time search and use increasingly sophisticated methods for “grounding”—connecting AI outputs to specific, verifiable knowledge and sourced analysis.