ground (See grind)
Dictionary Definition
Noun
1 an insignificant student who is ridiculed as
being affected or studying excessively [syn: swot, nerd, wonk, dweeb]
Verb
2 make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing
together; "grate one's teeth in anger" [syn: grate]
3 reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding
or abrading; "grind the spices in a mortar"; "mash the garlic"
[syn: mash, crunch, bray, comminute]
4 work hard; "She was digging away at her math
homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long" [syn: labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, drudge, dig, moil]
5 dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically
suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that
the dancers' legs are interlaced [also: ground]ground adj : broken or
pounded into small fragments; used of e.g. ore or stone; "paved
with crushed bluestone"; "ground glass is used as an abrasive"
[syn: crushed]
Noun
1 the solid part of the earth's surface; "the
plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land"; "the
earth shook for several minutes"; "he dropped the logs on the
ground" [syn: land,
dry
land, earth, solid
ground, terra
firma]
2 a rational motive for a belief or action; "the
reason that war was declared"; "the grounds for their declaration"
[syn: reason]
3 the loose soft material that makes up a large
part of the land surface; "they dug into the earth outside the
church" [syn: earth]
4 a relation that provides the foundation for
something; "they were on a friendly footing"; "he worked on an
interim basis" [syn: footing, basis]
5 a position to be won or defended in battle (or
as if in battle); "they gained ground step by step"; "they fought
to regain the lost ground"
6 the part of a scene (or picture) that lies
behind objects in the foreground; "he posed her against a
background of rolling hills" [syn: background]
7 material in the top layer of the surface of the
earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its
quality or use); "the land had never been plowed"; "good
agricultural soil" [syn: land, soil]
8 a relatively homogeneous percept extending back
of the figure on which attention is focused [ant: figure]
9 a connection between an electrical device and
the earth (which is a zero voltage) [syn: earth]
10 (art) the surface (as a wall or canvas)
prepared to take the paint for a painting
11 the first or preliminary coat of paint or size
applied to a surface [syn: flat coat,
primer, priming, primer coat,
priming
coat, undercoat]
Verb
1 fix firmly and stably; "anchor the lamppost in
concrete" [syn: anchor]
2 confine or restrict to the ground; "After the
accident, they grounded the plane and the pilot"
3 place or put on the ground
4 instruct someone in the fundamentals of a
subject
5 bring to the ground; "the storm grounded the
ship" [syn: run
aground]
6 hit or reach the ground [syn: run
aground]
7 throw to the ground in order to stop play and
avoid being tackled behind the line of scrimmage
8 hit a groundball; "he grounded to the second
baseman"
9 hit onto the ground
11 connect to a ground; "ground the electrical
connections for safety reasons"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /'gɹaʊnd/, /"graUnd/
Etymology 1
Old English grundNoun
- The surface of the Earth.
- Terrain.
- Soil, earth.
- The worm crawls through the ground.
- The bottom of a body of water.
- Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.
- Background, context, framework, surroundings.
- A soccer stadium.
- Manchester United's ground is known as Old Trafford.
- An electrical
conductor connected to
the ground.
- The British equivalent is earth.
- A level of electrical potential used as a zero reference.
- The area of grass on which a match is played (a cricket field); the entire arena in which it is played; that part of the field behind a batsman's popping crease where he can not be run out (hence to make one's ground)
Related terms
Translations
The surface of the Earth
Soil, earth
Basis, foundation, groundwork
- Finnish: peruste, syy
- Greek: έδαφος
- Korean: 바탕 (batang)
- Swedish: grund
Background, context, framework, surroundings
Electrical conductor connected to point of zero
potential
- ttbc Arabic:
- ttbc Dutch: aarde (2, 5), terrein (3)
- ttbc Esperanto: grundo
- ttbc French: sol
- ttbc Indonesian: tanah, lapangan
- ttbc Italian: suolo (1, 3), terreno (1, 3), terra (1, 2, 3, 5, 6)
- ttbc Japanese: 地面 (じめん, jimen), グラウンド (guraundo)
- ttbc Latin: humus terra
- ttbc Polish: ziemia
- ttbc Navajo: ni'
- ttbc Slovak: zem pôda
- ttbc Telugu: నేల (nEla)
Verb
- To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground.
- To require a disobedient child to
remain at home or refrain from other
privileges such as uses of the Internet, phone, TV, or music,
usually as a punishment.
- The teenager's father decided to ground him for two weeks after he broke curfew again.
- To forbid (an
aircraft or pilot) to
fly.
- Because of the bad weather, all flights were grounded.
- to hit a ground ball;
to hit a ground ball
which results in an out. Compare fly (verb(regular)) and line (verb).
- Jones grounded to second in his last at-bat.
- (of a batsman) to place his bat, or part of his body, on the ground behind the popping crease so as not to be run out
Translations
To connect an electrical conductor
- Czech: uzemnit
- Dutch: aarden
- Finnish: maattaa, maadoittaa
- Hungarian: leföldel
- Swedish: jorda
To require a child to remain at home
- Dutch: huisarrest geven
- Hungarian: szobafogságra ítél
- Swedish: ge husarrest
To forbid an aircraft or pilot to fly
- Dutch: vliegverbod opleggen
- Swedish: belägga med flygförbud, ställa på marken
Verb
ground- past of grind
- I ground the coffee up nicely.
Synonyms
Extensive Definition
Ground may refer to:
- The surface of the Earth
- Soil, a mixture of sand and organic material present on the surface of the Earth
- Ground (electricity), in electrical engineering, something that is connected to the Earth or at the voltage defined as zero (in the U.S., called ground; in the UK, called earth). See:
- In surveying, Ground refers to a unit of land approximately equal to 223.2 square meters or 0.0551 acres. This unit is widely used in the Indian real estate parlance.
- Ground (often grounds), in law, a rational motive, basis for a belief or conviction, for an action taken, such as a legal action or argument; reason or cause: (sued for divorce on the ground of adultery) (listed alcoholism and adultery as the grounds for divorce) (grounds for dismissal)
- In philosophy, socially grounded arguments are those which take as their starting point social conditions
- Ground bass, in music, a bass part that continually repeats, while the melody and harmony over it change
- Ground tissue, one of the three types of tissue systems in a plant
- Lace ground, the mesh surrounding the design
- To punish a child by prohibiting them from leaving home and/or restricting other privileges for a specified time period
- To prohibit a pilot or airplane from flying, such as the national ground stop on September 11, 2001 in the United States.
- In symbolic logic, a "ground term" is a term with no variables
- A Football stadium
ground in German: Gelände
ground in French: Terrain
ground in Japanese: グラウンド
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Bassalia, a priori principle,
abyss, abyssal zone,
acres, affirmation, agora, air brush, airspace, alluvion, alluvium, ambition, amphitheater, angle, antecedent, antecedents, apriorism, arable land,
area, arena, argument, art paper, aspiration, assertion, assumed position,
assumption, athletic
field, auditorium,
axiom, back, backdrop, background, base, basement, basin, basis, bathyal zone, beach, bear garden, bearing wall,
bed, bedding, bedrock, belt, benthos, billiard table, blow
down, blow over, bottom,
bottom waters, bottomless depths, bottommost, bowl, bowl down, bowl over, bowling
green, boxing ring, branny, bring down, broaden the
mind, brush, build, build in, bull ring,
bulldog, call, calling, camera lucida, camera
obscura, campus, canvas, carpet, cast away, cast down,
catechize, categorical
proposition, causation, cause, cause and effect, chalk, chalklike, chalky, channel, charcoal, chop down, chromogen, cincture, circus, civilize, clay, clod, close, coach, coat, coat of paint, coating, cockpit, coliseum, color, color filter, color
gelatin, colorant,
coloring, colosseum, comminute, comminuted, compass, confine, confines, confirm, consideration, container, continental shelf,
coop, corridor, coulee, country, course, court, courtyard, cover, crayon, crushed, crust, curtilage, cut down, dash
down, data, dead flat, dead
level, dead-color, deck,
deep-dye, define,
delimited field, demonstrate, demonstration, department, deposit, determinant, determinative, detrital, detrited, direct, dirt, disintegrated, distance, distemper, district, division, down, drawing paper, drawing
pencil, dregs, drier, drop, dry land, dust, dusty, dye, dyestuff, earth, easel, edify, educate, efflorescent, element, embed, enclave, enclosure, engraft, engrave, enlighten, entrench, environs, esplanade, establish, etch, etiology, evidence, excuse, exterior paint, factor, farinaceous, fell, fetch down, field, fine, first principles, fix, fixative, flaky, flat, flat coat, flat wash,
flatland, flatten, floor, floor covering, floor
enamel, flooring,
floury, fold, fond, footing, forum, found, foundation, freehold, fundament, fundamental, furfuraceous, give
instruction, give lessons in, glebe, goal, gone to dust, good reason,
grassland, grated, grounds, groundwork, guide, guiding light, guiding
star, gym, gymnasium, hall, hardpan, heartland, hew down, hinterland, hippodrome, homaloid, horizontal, horizontal axis,
horizontal fault, horizontal line, horizontal parallax, horizontal
plane, horizontal projection, hypothesis, hypothesis ad
hoc, ideal, illumine, impact, impalpable, implant, impress, imprint, infix, inform, infrastructure, ingrain, initiate, inner space, inscribe, inspiration, install, instruct, insulate, intention, interior paint,
invest, isolate, jam, justification, knock down,
land, landholdings, lay figure,
lay level, lay low, lay out, lay the foundation, ledge, lees, lemma, level, level line, level plane,
levigated, list, lists, lithosphere, loam, locale, lodestar, lodge, lowest, mainspring, major premise,
marginal land, marketplace, marl, mat, material basis, matter, maulstick, mealy, mean sea level, medium, milieu, milled, minor premise,
mise-en-scene, mold,
motive, mow down,
neighborhood,
nethermost, occasion, ocean bottom, ocean
depths, ocean floor, offshore rights, opaque color, open forum,
open the eyes, organize, pack, paint, paintbrush, palaestra, pale, palette, palette knife, paling, parade ground, park, parquet, part, parterre, parts, pastel, pave, pavement, paving, pelagic zone, pen, pencil, perspective, pestled, philosopheme, pigment, pigments, pile up, pit, pitch, place, plain, plane, plant, platform, position, post, postulate, postulation, postulatum, powdered, powdery, prairie, precinct, precincts, precipitate, precipitation, premise, premises, prepare, presupposition, prime
coat, primer, priming, principle, print, prize ring, proof, proposition, propositional
function, prostrate,
public square, pull down, pulverant, pulverized, pulverulent, purlieu, purlieus, put in, put up,
quad, quadrangle, quarter, radical, range, rase, rationale, raze, real estate, real property,
rear, reason, reduced to powder,
reeducate, region, regolith, right, ring, riprap, rock bottom, rock-bottom,
root, rudiment, run aground, sake, salient, scaly, scene, scene of action, scenery, school, scobicular, scobiform, scope, score, scratchboard, scurfy, sea level, sea of grass,
seat, section, sediment, send headlong,
set, set in, set right, set
up, setting, settle, settlings, sharded, sharpen the wits,
shipwreck, show, show how, shredded, siccative, sill, site, sketchbook, sketchpad, sod, soil, solid ground, solid rock,
source, space, spatula, sphere, spray gun, spread-eagle,
spring, square, squared circle, stadium, stage, stage set, stage setting,
stain, stamp, stand, standing, statement, station, status, steppe, stereobate, stereotype, stimulus, strand, stump, stylobate, subaerial deposit,
subsoil, substance, substratum, substruction, substructure, sumption, supinate, supposal, surfacing, sustain, table, take down, take the ground,
teach, teach a lesson,
teach the rudiments, tempera, terra, terra firma, terrace, terrain, territory, test, testimony, the country, the
deep, the deep sea, the deeps, the depths, theater, theorem, thesis, thinner, three-mile limit,
throw, throw down, tilting
ground, tiltyard,
tinction, tincture, toft, topple, topsoil, train, transparent color, trench, trial, trip, triturated, truth table,
truth-function, truth-value, tumble, turf, turpentine, turps, tutor, twelve-mile limit, ulterior
motive, underbuilding, undercarriage, undercoat, undercoating, undergirding, undermost, underpinning, understruction, understructure, varnish, vehicle, venue, vest, vicinage, vicinity, viewpoint, vocation, walk, warrant, wash, wash coat, water level,
wedge, whack down,
wherefore, why, whyfor, woodland, wreck, wrestling ring, yard, zone