Ground and Basic

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"
  • synonyms: footing, 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"
  • synonyms: land, 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.
  • synonyms: crunch, cranch, craunch, grind
• Make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together.
  • usage: "grate one's teeth in anger"
  • synonyms: grate, grind
• Work hard.
  • usage: "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
  • synonyms: labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
• 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"
  • synonyms: grind, mash, crunch, bray, comminute
• 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.
  • synonyms: prime, undercoat
• 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"
  • synonyms: establish, base, found

• (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.

noun

• A popular programming language that is relatively easy to learn; an acronym for beginner's all-purpose symbolic instruction code; no longer in general use.
• Usually plural. ( a necessary commodity for which demand is constant)
  • synonyms: staple

adjective

• Pertaining to or constituting a base or basis.
  • usage: "a basic fact"; "the basic ingredients"; "basic changes in public opinion occur because of changes in priorities"
• Reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality.
  • usage: "a basic story line"; "a canonical syllable pattern"
  • synonyms: canonic, canonical
• Serving as a base or starting point.
  • usage: "a basic course in Russian"; "basic training for raw recruits"; "a set of basic tools"; "an introductory art course"
  • synonyms: introductory
• Of or denoting or of the nature of or containing a base. .

• (a.) Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt.
• (a.) Said of crystalline rocks which contain a relatively low percentage of silica, as basalt.
• (a.) Apparently alkaline, as certain normal salts which exhibit alkaline reactions with test paper.
• (a.) Having the base in excess or the amount of the base atomically greater than that of the acid or exceeding in proportion that of the related neutral salt.

• Name Meaning: Diminutive of Basil: Royal. Kingly. St Basil the Great was Bishop of Caesarea in the latter half of the 4th century. This name was introduced into Western Europe by the Crusaders. Derived from the same Greek word as the plant name basil
• Name Origin: Greek