grass
Definitions
- Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
- pasture
- A group of languages spoken in Papua New Guinea.
- A surname.
- lawn
- Any of the various plants that are not in the family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
- A township in Spencer County, Indiana, United States, named after pioneer settler Daniel Grass.
- A lawn.
- synonym of pastún (“Pashto”)
- The outside world, especially in the phrase "touch grass".
- first-person singular present indicative of pastar
- Marijuana.
- An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
- Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
- Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
- The season of fresh grass; spring or summer.
- That which is transitory.
- Asparagus; "sparrowgrass".
- The surface of a mine.
Equivalents
92 more languages
Afrikaansgras
አማርኛሣር
Беларускаятрава
བོད་སྐད།རྩྭ
Catalàherba
Esperantoherbo
Euskarabelar
Gaeilgefear
Gàidhligfeur
ગુજરાતીઘાસ
Hausaciyawa
ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻimauʻu
Magyarfú
Հայերենխոտ
Íslenskagras
ქართულიბალახი
ភាសាខ្មែរស្មៅ
ಕನ್ನಡಹುಲ್ಲು
LëtzebuergeschGras
Lingálalitíti
ລາວຫຍ້າ
Malagasyahitra
Te Reo Māorikaraihe
Македонскитрева
മലയാളംപുല്ല്
मराठीगवत
Bahasa Melayurumput
Maltiħaxix
မြန်မာမြက်
नेपालीघाँस
ଓଡ଼ିଆଘାସ
Românăiarbă
Ikinyarwandaicyatsi
සිංහලතණ
Slovenčinatráva
Slovenščinatrava
Soomaalicaws
Shqipbar
Sesothojwang
Svenskagräs
தமிழ்புல்
Тоҷикӣсабза
ไทยหญ้า
ትግርኛሳዕሪ
Türkmençeot
ئۇيغۇرچەئوت
O'zbekchaoʻt
Wolofñax
Yorùbákoriko
isiZuluutshani
Examples
“Thou turnest man to destruction: and sayest, Returne yee children of men. / For a thousand yeeres in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past: and as a watch⟳ in the night. / Thou carriest them away as with a flood⟳, they are as a sleepe: in the morning they are like⟳ grasse which groweth vp. / In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth vp: in the euening it is cut⟳ downe, and withereth.”
“The cicale above in the lime, / And the lizards below in the grass, / Were as silent as ever old Tmolus was, / Listening to my sweet pipings.”
“'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light⟳ green streaks where the shoal showed.”
“Jojo left his home in Tucson, Arizona / For some California grass”
“What just happened must remain⟳ secret. Don't be a grass.”
“He was a grass and an arse lick and he didn't do it for him, he did it for his brother, because if Vaughan had hit him especially with his mallet, Mark⟳ was the kind of lowlife that would have⟳ pressed charges and then that's a whole different problem.”
“Another claimed a £10,000 bounty was put⟳ on his head as he was rumoured to be a “grass”.”
“The problem in radar detection is to have⟳ a signal to noise ratio that will allow⟳ the echo to be seen through the grass on the radar screen. The use⟳ of a long pulse allows a greater average signal strength to be returned in the target⟳ echoes.”
“Some of the scattered waves can be picked up by the receiver and may show⟳ up as "grass" on the radar presentation. Weather radars make⟳ use⟳ of this phenomenon to chart the progress⟳ of storms.”
“The grasse withereth, the flowre fadeth; because the spirit of the Lord bloweth vpon it: surely the people is grasse.”
“'Have⟳ ready a hundred of ſmall graſs boiled, then ſave tops enough to ſtick the rolls with, the reſt cut⟳ ſmall and put⟳ into the cream, fill⟳ the loaves with them.'”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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