Meaning of ground | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.
   countable, uncountable
2. land, ground (the part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water)
3. Terrain.
   uncountable
4. To be put out by hitting a ground ball that is fielded and thrown to first base.
5. earth, soil (the unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth)
6. Soil, earth.
   countable, uncountable
7. To belabor (an issue or a subject).
8. land, terrain (an area of land or the particular features of it)
9. The bottom of a body of water.
   countable
10. From the most basic level to the highest level; completely: designed the house from the ground up; learned the family business from the ground up.
11. land, terrain (reserved for growing crops)
12. Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.
    countable, uncountable
13. Under way, as if in flight: Because of legal difficulties, the construction project never got off the ground.
14. homeland (one's country of birth)
15. In a situation where one has knowledge or competence: a sculptor back on her own ground after experiments with painting.
16. Reason, (epistemic) justification, cause.
    countable, in-plural, uncountable
17. At a place that is exciting, interesting, or important: a reporter who wanted to be on the ground when the story broke.
18. Background, context, framework, surroundings.
    countable, uncountable
19. Past tense and past participle of grind.
20. 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".
    countable, historical, uncountable
21. take the high ground, to take a position of advantage or superiority.
22. Advantage given or gained in any contest; e.g. in football, chess, debate or academic discourse.
    broadly, countable, figuratively, uncountable
23. the teaching of the basic facts of a subject. a good grounding in mathematics. basis, grondslag تأسيس، تعليم الأسُس основа base vyučování základům der Anfangsunterricht grundviden βάσεις, βασικές γνώσεις base, conocimientos algõpetus آموزش اصول و مبانی perustiedot enseignement des bases d'un sujet הוראת היסודות नींव, बुनियाद temelj, osnova alap(ozás) pengajaran dasar grunnur, kennsla fondamenti 基礎訓練 기초 지식 pagrindai pamatu apgūšana; priekšzināšanas asas basisvorming grunnlagpodstawy دسيند دتل ...
24. A place suited to a specified activity.
    countable, in-compounds, uncountable
25. without reason. Your fears are groundless. ongegronde لا أساس لَه، غير مُبَرَّر، بدون سبب неоснователен infundado bezdůvodný grundlos grundløs αβάσιμοςinfundado, sin fundamentos alusetu بی دلیل perätön sans fondement חסר יסוד निराधार bezrazložan, neutemeljen alaptalan tanpa alasan ástæðulaus infondato 根拠のない 근거 없는 be pagrindo, nepagrįstas nepamatots tidak berasas ongegrondubegrunnet, grunnløs bezzasadny بې اساسه. بې دليله infundamentado fără motiv необоснованный bezdôvodný neutemeljen neosnova...
26. The plain surface upon which the figures of an artistic composition are set.
    countable, uncountable
27. A flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief.
    countable, uncountable
28. The net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied.
    countable, uncountable
29. 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.
    countable, uncountable
30. One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which mouldings etc. are attached.
    countable, in-plural, uncountable
31. A soccer stadium.
    UK, countable
32. An electrical conductor connected to the earth, or a large conductor whose electrical potential is taken as zero (such as a steel chassis).
    countable, uncountable
33. Electric shock.
    Philippines, countable, uncountable
34. 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).
    countable
35. A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a varying melody.
    countable, uncountable
36. The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.
    countable, uncountable
37. The pit of a theatre.
    countable, uncountable
38. Synonym of munny (“land measure”).
    India, countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

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.”

“As the terrain-following radar scans the ground ahead of the aircraft the actual clearance height is measured by the radio altimeter.”

“The worm crawls through the ground.”

“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, […]”

“You will need to show good grounds for your action.”

“He could not come on grounds of health, or on health grounds.”

“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?”

“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; [...].”

“Brussels ground”

“Grounds are usually put up first and the plastering floated flush with them.”

“Manchester United's ground is known as Old Trafford.”

“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.”

“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.”

“the understanding gentlemen o' the ground here ask'd my judgment”

“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.”

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