Grassplot and Ground
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
noun
- The solid part of the earth's surface.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: land, dry land, earth, solid ground, terra firma
- A rational motive for a belief or action.
- usage: "the reason that war was declared"; "the grounds for their declaration"
- synonyms: reason
- The loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface.
- usage: "they dug into the earth outside the church"
- synonyms: earth
- A relation that provides the foundation for something.
- usage: "they were on a friendly footing"; "he worked on an interim basis"
- A position to be won or defended in battle (or as if in battle. )
- usage: "they gained ground step by step"; "they fought to regain the lost ground"
- The part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground.
- usage: "he posed her against a background of rolling hills"
- synonyms: background
- Material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use. )
- usage: "the land had never been plowed"; "good agricultural soil"
- A relatively homogeneous percept extending back of the figure on which attention is focused.
- A connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage.
- synonyms: earth
- Art) the surface (as a wall or canvas) prepared to take the paint for a painting. (
- The first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface.
- synonyms: flat coat, primer, priming, primer coat, priming coat, undercoat
verb
- Press or grind with a crushing noise.
- Make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together.
- usage: "grate one's teeth in anger"
- Work hard.
- usage: "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
- 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.
- synonyms: grind
- Reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading.
- usage: "grind the spices in a mortar"; "mash the garlic"
- Created by grinding.
- usage: "grind designs into the glass bowl"
- synonyms: grind
- Shape or form by grinding.
- usage: "grind lenses for glasses and cameras"
- synonyms: grind
- Fix firmly and stably.
- usage: "anchor the lamppost in concrete"
- synonyms: anchor
- Confine or restrict to the ground.
- usage: "After the accident, they grounded the plane and the pilot"
- Place or put on the ground.
- Instruct someone in the fundamentals of a subject.
- Bring to the ground.
- usage: "the storm grounded the ship"
- synonyms: strand, run aground
- Hit or reach the ground.
- synonyms: run aground
- Throw to the ground in order to stop play and avoid being tackled behind the line of scrimmage.
- Hit a groundball.
- usage: "he grounded to the second baseman"
- Hit onto the ground.
- Cover with a primer; apply a primer to.
- Connect to a ground.
- usage: "ground the electrical connections for safety reasons"
- Use as a basis for; found on.
- usage: "base a claim on some observation"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (n.) A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a varying melody.
- (n.) That surface upon which the figures of a composition are set, and which relieves them by its plainness, being either of one tint or of tints but slightly contrasted with one another; as, crimson Bowers on a white ground.
- (n.) The basis on which anything rests; foundation. Hence: The foundation of knowledge, belief or conviction; a premise, reason or datum; ultimate or first principle; cause of existence or occurrence; originating force or agency; as, the ground of my hope.
- (n.) A floor or pavement supposed to rest upon the earth.
- (v.i.) To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed; as, the ship grounded on the bar.
- (n.) Sediment at the bottom of liquors or liquids; dregs; lees; feces; as, coffee grounds.
- (n.) The surface of the earth; the outer crust of the globe or some indefinite portion of it.
- (n.) A gummy composition 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.
- (n.) Land; estate; possession; field; especially (pl.), the gardens, lawns, fields, etc., belonging to a homestead; as, the grounds of the estate are well kept.
- (n.) In point lace, the net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied; as, Brussels ground. See Brussels lace, under Brussels.
- (n.) Any definite portion of the earth's surface; region; territory; country. Hence: A territory appropriated to or resorted to, for a particular purpose; the field or place of action; as, a hunting or fishing ground; a play ground.
- (v.t.) To connect with the ground so as to make the earth a part of an electrical circuit.
- (n.) The pit of a theater.
- (n.) One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which moldings, etc., are attached; -- usually in the plural.
- (n.) A conducting connection with the earth, whereby the earth is made part of an electrical circuit.
- (imp.&p.p.) of Grind.
- (v.t.) To instruct in elements or first principles.
- (v.t.) To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly.
- (n.) The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.
- imp. & p. p. of Grind.
- (v.t.) To lay, set or run, on the ground.
- (v.t.) To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching (see Ground, n., 5); or as paper or other materials with a uniform tint as a preparation for ornament.
- (n.) In sculpture, a flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary