ground
IPA: grˈaʊnd
noun
- The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.
- (uncountable) Terrain.
- Soil, earth.
- (countable) The bottom of a body of water.
- Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.
- (chiefly in the plural) Reason, (epistemic) justification, cause.
- Background, context, framework, surroundings.
- (historical) 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".
- (figurative, by extension) Advantage given or gained in any contest; e.g. in football, chess, debate or academic discourse.
- (in combination) A place suited to a specified activity.
- The plain surface upon which the figures of an artistic composition are set.
- (sculpture) A flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief.
- (point lace) The net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied.
- (etching) 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.
- (architecture, chiefly in the plural) One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which mouldings etc. are attached.
- (countable) A soccer stadium.
- (electricity, Canada and US) An electrical conductor connected to the earth, or a large conductor whose electrical potential is taken as zero (such as a steel chassis).
- (electricity, Philippines) Electric shock.
- (countable, cricket) 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).
- (music) A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a varying melody.
- (music) The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.
- The pit of a theatre.
- (India, obsolete) Synonym of munny (“land measure”)
verb
- (US) To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground.
- (Philippines) To electrocute.
- (transitive) To punish, especially a child or teenager, by forcing them to stay at home and/or give up certain privileges.
- (transitive) To forbid (an aircraft or pilot) to fly.
- To give a basic education in a particular subject; to instruct in elements or first principles.
- (baseball) To hit a ground ball. Compare fly (verb (regular)) and line (verb).
- To place something on the ground.
- (intransitive) To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed.
- To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly.
- (fine arts) To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching, or as paper or other materials with a uniform tint as a preparation for ornament.
- To improve or focus the mental or emotional state of.
- (machine learning) To complement a machine learning model with relevant information it was not trained on.
adjective
- Crushed, or reduced to small particles.
- Processed by grinding.
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Examples of "ground" in Sentences
- It has everything above the ground, and everything under the ground .
- The only way Republicans can try to gain ground is to tear down our great President and the Democratic party.
- Previously, the phrase "ground zero" had only one meaning: it was the spot where a nuclear explosion had occurred.
- I have always said that the only times Democrats gain ground is when Republicans overplay their hand and their true agenda shows.
- Before the 2001 attacks, the term ground zero was most often used to denote the center of a major explosion, often in reference to a nuclear detonation.
- That the likely Democratic Presidential candidate refuses to look at the facts on the ground is a measure of how tenaciously he and his party are committed to American impotence.
- When cavalry is required to charge over unknown ground, it should be preceded by a few men thrown out to the front as skirmishers, in order to _scout the ground_ to be passed over.
- The country about Syracuse is neither grand nor beautiful; but the ground is _classic ground_, and Sicily has not been brought within the reach of an intercourse which, while it polishes and confers substantial benefits, removes the sacred rust of antiquity.
- If it be true, that on the ground which I occupy, ground which I occupy as frankly and boldly as Judge Douglas does his, my views, though partly coinciding with yours, are not as perfectly in accordance with your feelings as his are, I do say to you in all candor, go for him and not for me.
- I fowed an acre on the other fide of the vrheat, with three ftone, which was a very good crop, for it branched to fiU the ground with a fine long-eared corn; it branched firom two to fix or eight ears out of a root, according to the diftarice the grains 'fell from each other, juft fo they ftooled or branched tiU they filled the ground*
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