ground
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[edit] Etymology 1
From Old English grund, from Proto-Germanic *grunduz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰr̥mtu-. Cognate with West Frisian grûn, Dutch grond and German Grund.
[edit] Noun
ground (countable and uncountable; plural grounds)
- (uncountable) The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.
- (uncountable) Terrain.
- (uncountable) Soil, earth.
- The worm crawls through the ground.
- (countable) The bottom of a body of water.
- Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.
- Background, context, framework, surroundings.
- (countable) A soccer stadium.
- Manchester United's ground is known as Old Trafford.
- (electricity, Canada and US) An electrical conductor connected to the ground.
- (electricity, Canada and US) A level of electrical potential used as a zero reference.
- (countable, cricket) The area of grass on which a match is played (a cricket field); the entire arena in which it is played; that part of the field behind a batsman's popping crease where he can not be run out (hence to make one's ground)
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- (electricity) earth (British)
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Terms derived from ground (noun)
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The surface of the Earth
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Soil, earth
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The bottom of a body of water
Basis, foundation, groundwork
Background, context, framework, surroundings
Electrical conductor connected to point of zero potential
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Electrical point of zero potential
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[edit] Verb
ground (third-person singular simple present grounds, present participle grounding, simple past and past participle grounded)
- To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground.
- (transitive) To require a disobedient child to remain at home or refrain from other privileges such as uses of the Internet, phone, TV, or music, usually as a punishment.
- The teenager's father decided to ground him for two weeks after he broke curfew again.
- (transitive) To forbid (an aircraft or pilot) to fly.
- Because of the bad weather, all flights were grounded.
- To gain a basic education (of a particular subject).
- Jim was grounded in maths.
- (baseball) to hit a ground ball; to hit a ground ball which results in an out. Compare fly (verb(regular)) and line (verb).
- Jones grounded to second in his last at-bat.
- (cricket) (of a batsman) to place his bat, or part of his body, on the ground behind the popping crease so as not to be run out
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To connect an electrical conductor
To require a child to remain at home
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To forbid an aircraft or pilot to fly
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ground
- Simple past tense and past participle of grind.
- I ground the coffee up nicely.
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ground (not comparable)
- Crushed, or reduced to small particles.
- ground mustard seed
- Processed by grinding.
- lenses of ground glass
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Most common English words before 1923: followed · fear · evening · #428: ground · understand · fine · law
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