ground
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
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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.
Inflected forms:
form: grounds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: GND
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: grounds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: grounding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: grounded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: grounded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: GND
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Look, I found a ten dollar bill on the ground!
If the afternoon was fine they strolled together in the park, very slowly, and with pauses to draw breath wherever the ground sloped upward. The slightest effort made the patient cough.
Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts.
gloss: Terrain.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: As the terrain-following radar scans the ground ahead of the aircraft the actual clearance height is measured by the radio altimeter.
gloss: Soil, earth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The worm crawls through the ground.
gloss: The bottom of a body of water.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Wyth cry unreverent,
Before the sacrament,
Wythin the holy church bowndis,
That of our fayth the grownd is.
[B]e the consequences what they may, they shall not move an inch, nor a hair's-breadth from the ground of their groundless spiritual independence, […]
gloss: Reason, (epistemic) justification, cause.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
uncountable
examples: You will need to show good grounds for your action.
He could not come on grounds of health, or on health grounds.
gloss: Background, context, framework, surroundings.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The area on which a battle is fought, particularly as referring to the area occupied by one side or the other. Often, according to the eventualities, "to give ground" or "to gain ground".
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
gloss: Advantage given or gained in any contest; e.g. in football, chess, debate or academic discourse.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
figuratively
uncountable
gloss: A place suited to a specified activity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-compounds
uncountable
examples: a forest traditionally used as a hunting-ground
I gather from your last answer that at the present time the constabulary, to a certain extent, is good recruiting ground for the army?
gloss: The plain surface upon which the figures of an artistic composition are set.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: crimson flowers on a white ground
[…] to pad a piece in diluted acetate of alumine to obtain a pale lemon ground […]
One and All is the motto of the County of Cornwall, used below the coat-of-arms, which is a shield embracing fifteen bezants, or golden roundels, on a black ground; [...].
gloss: A flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Brussels ground
gloss: A gummy substance spread over the surface of a metal to be etched, to prevent the acid from eating except where an opening is made by the needle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which mouldings etc. are attached.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
uncountable
examples: Grounds are usually put up first and the plastering floated flush with them.
gloss: A soccer stadium.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
examples: Manchester United's ground is known as Old Trafford.
gloss: An electrical conductor connected to the earth, or a large conductor whose electrical potential is taken as zero (such as a steel chassis).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: А ground may be undesirable, inadvertent, or accidental path taken by an electrical current; or it may be the deliberate provision of conductors well connected to the ground by means of plates buried therein, or similar device.
gloss: Electric shock.
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
countable
uncountable
gloss: The area of grass on which a match is played (a cricket field); the entire arena in which it is played; the part of the field behind a batsman's popping crease where he can not be run out (hence to make one's ground).
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a varying melody.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Buck[ingham] The Mayor is here at hand; pretend ſome fear, // Be not you ſpoke with, but by mighty ſuit; // And look you get a prayer-book in your hand, // And ſtand between two churchmen, good my lord, // For on that ground I’ll build a holy deſcant: // And be not eaſily won to our requeſts: // Play the maid’s part, ſtill anſwer nay, and take it.
gloss: The pit of a theatre.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the understanding gentlemen o' the ground here ask'd my judgment
gloss: Synonym of munny (“land measure”).
pos: noun
tags: India
countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: It is sub-divided into annas (or 16ths), of 3,600 square feet each; or when the land is for building purposes, into grounds (munnies) of 1/24 of a cawny each, as in the town of Madras.
gloss: To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground.
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To electrocute.
pos: verb
tags: Philippines
transitive
gloss: To punish, especially a child or teenager, by forcing them to stay at home and/or give up certain privileges.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: If you don't clean your room, I'll have no choice but to ground you.
Eric, you are grounded until further notice for lying to us about where you were last night!
My kids are currently grounded from television.
gloss: To forbid (an aircraft or pilot) to fly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Because of the bad weather, all flights were grounded.
gloss: To give a basic education in a particular subject; to instruct in elements or first principles.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Jim was grounded in maths.
gloss: To place a bat or part of the body on the ground to avoid being run out.
pos: verb
gloss: To hit a ground ball. Compare fly (verb (regular)) and line (verb).
pos: verb
examples: [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.
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.
gloss: To place something on the ground.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The ship grounded on the bar.
gloss: To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly.
pos: verb
examples: being rooted and grounded in love
So far from warranting any inference to the existence of a God, would, on the contrary, ground even an argument to his negation.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
gloss: To improve or focus the mental or emotional state of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I ground myself with meditation.
gloss: To complement a machine learning model with relevant information it was not trained on.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: Crushed, or reduced to small particles.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: ground mustard seed
Alike, joy and sorrow, hope and fear, seemed ground to finest dust, and powdered, for the time, in the clamped mortar of Ahab's iron soul.
The intestinal contents of F. Stellifer seem finely ground in comparison to those of F. catenatus, probably as a result of chewing with the stout pharyngeal molars.
Powder mixing and grinding are complete when the powder is homogenous and grey-black in color, appears finely ground, and feels smooth.
gloss: Processed by grinding.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: lenses of ground glass
the traces of wear have the appearance of dull patches that look ground.
The axial perforation, the handle socket and the quern base are all rough and do not appear ground or polished
An advantage of such a finishing tool is that, after the machining, the workpiece has high surface quality. The surface which is produced appears finely ground to polished by means of this procedure.
Synonyms: earth
Related words: floor
terra firma
Derived words: above ground
aboveground
above-ground
absorbent ground
aground
air-to-ground
archery ground
background
barren-ground caribou
Battle Ground
battleground
battle ground
bedground
belowground
best on ground
bootleg ground
boots on the ground
bora ground
break new ground
Brehm's ground parrot
bring to ground
Brussels ground
Brussels wire ground
burying ground
byground
centerground
centreground
clear the ground
cloud-to-ground
cover ground
cumberground
cumber-ground
cumber ground
cut the ground from under someone's feet
dead ground
drill ground
drive into the ground
drive something into the ground
dumping ground
ear to the ground
eyeground
eyes on the ground
facts on the ground
fall on stony ground
fall to the ground
feet on the ground
figure and ground
fireground
fishing ground
floating ground
foreground
the ground up
gain-ground
get off the ground
gill-go-by-the-ground
gill-over-the-ground
go to ground
ground agama
groundage
ground and pound
ground angling
ground babbler
ground bailiff
groundbait
ground ball
ground bar
ground bass
ground beetle
ground berry
ground blizzard
ground breaker
groundbreaker
ground-breaking
groundbreaking
groundburst
ground cable
ground cedar
groundcherry
ground cherry
ground-chestnut
ground clearance
groundcloth
ground cloth
ground clutter
ground control
ground control point
ground cover
ground crew
groundcrew
ground cruncher
ground cuckoo
ground cypress
ground dove
ground effect
ground elder
grounder
ground failure
ground fault
ground finch
ground fir
groundfire
ground fire
ground fish
groundfish
ground floor
ground-floor
ground fog
ground food
ground forces
ground frame
ground frost
ground game
ground-glass
ground handling
ground hemlock
ground hog
groundhog
ground-hog
groundhopper
groundhopping
ground hornbill
ground ice
ground itch
ground ivy
ground-ivy
ground lamella
ground laurel
groundlaying
groundless
ground level
groundline
groundling
ground loop
groundlubber
groundly
ground-man
ground man
groundmass
ground meristem
groundmist
ground mist
ground-mist
ground moraine
ground noise
groundnut
ground out
ground pangolin
ground pea
ground pear
groundpecker
groundpig
ground pine
groundplan
ground plane
ground plan
ground-plan
ground plate
ground plum
ground pounder
ground power
ground provisions
ground proximity warning system
ground rattlesnake
ground rent
ground robin
ground roller
ground row
groundrow
ground rule
ground-rule
ground score
groundscraper
groundsel
ground sense
ground set
ground-shaker
groundshare
ground shark
groundsheet
groundside
ground signal
groundsill
ground sloth
groundsman
ground snake
ground speed
groundspeed
ground spider
ground squirrel
ground staff
groundstaff
ground state
ground station
groundstone
ground stop
groundstroke
ground-stroke
ground stroke
ground substance
groundswell
ground swell
ground tackle
ground tissue
ground-to-air
ground-to-ground
ground-to-ship
ground troops
ground truth
ground truthing
ground tyrant
groundwall
ground wallah
groundward
groundwards
groundwater
ground water
ground wave
groundwave
ground wire
groundwood
groundworker
ground-work
groundwork
groundworm
groundy
ground-zero
ground zero
happy hunting ground
hardground
hit the ground running
hold one's ground
honeycomb ground
hunting ground
in the ground
kiss the ground someone walks on
know one's ass from a hole in the ground
know one's head from a hole in the ground
know someone from a hole in the ground
know the difference between one's ass and a hole in the ground
level to the ground
lost ground
make ground
microground
middle-ground
midground
moral low ground
native ground
nesting ground
nonground
nuisance ground
off the ground
on familiar ground
on one's own ground
on shaky ground
on solid ground
on the ground
open ground
out ground
outground
overground
Overground
playground
prepare the ground
put facts on the ground
put in the ground
recreation ground
rooted to the ground
ruddy ground dove
rufous-vented ground-cuckoo
run into the ground
run to ground
run to the ground
Saint Croix ground lizard
sandgrounder
schoolground
sea-ground
shift ground
shift one's ground
ship-to-ground
Skinner's ground mantis
soften the ground
soften up the ground
spawning ground
sportsground
standing ground
stand one's ground
stand-your-ground law
suit down to the ground
tactile ground surface indicator
tenterground
thick on the ground
thin on the ground
Tom Tidler's ground
Tommy Tiddler's ground
underground
Underground
urgrund
wasteground
work into the ground
worship the ground someone walks on
English terms starting with
grounation
groundable
groundation
reground
misground
unground
ground beef
ground glass
ground meat
ground pepper
preground
stoneground
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