Meaning of grass | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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.
   countable, uncountable
2. pasture
3. A group of languages spoken in Papua New Guinea.
4. A surname.
5. lawn
6. Any of the various plants that are not in the family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
   countable
7. A township in Spencer County, Indiana, United States, named after pioneer settler Daniel Grass.
8. A lawn.
   uncountable
9. synonym of pastún (“Pashto”)
10. The outside world, especially in the phrase "touch grass".
    uncountable
11. first-person singular present indicative of pastar
12. Marijuana.
    slang, uncountable
13. An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
    British, countable, slang
14. Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
    uncountable
15. Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
    slang, uncountable
16. The season of fresh grass; spring or summer.
    countable, uncountable
17. That which is transitory.
    countable, figuratively, obsolete
18. Asparagus; "sparrowgrass".
    countable
19. The surface of a mine.
    countable

Equivalents

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.'”

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