Word Finder - ground

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The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.

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Look, I found a ten dollar bill on the ground!

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Terrain.

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Soil, earth.

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The fox escaped from the hounds by going to ground.

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The bottom of a body of water.

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Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.

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(chiefly in the plural) Reason, (epistemic) justification, cause.

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

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Background, context, framework, surroundings.

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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".

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(by extension) Advantage given or gained in any contest; e.g. in football, chess, debate or academic discourse.

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The plain surface upon which the figures of an artistic composition are set.

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crimson flowers on a white ground

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In sculpture, a flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief.

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In point lace, the net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied.

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Brussels ground

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In 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.

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(chiefly in the plural) One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which mouldings etc. are attached.

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

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A soccer stadium.

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Manchester United's ground is known as Old Trafford.

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An electrical conductor connected to the earth, or a large conductor whose electrical potential is taken as zero (such as a steel chassis).

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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).

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A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a varying melody.

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The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.

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The pit of a theatre.

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To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground.

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• earth

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To punish, especially a child or teenager, by forcing him/her to stay at home and/or give up certain privileges.

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Eric, you are grounded until further notice for lying to us about where you were last night!

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• gate

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To forbid (an aircraft or pilot) to fly.

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Because of the bad weather, all flights were grounded.

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To give a basic education in a particular subject; to instruct in elements or first principles.

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Jim was grounded in maths.

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To hit a ground ball. Compare fly (verb(regular)) and line (verb).

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To place something on the ground.

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To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed.

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The ship grounded on the bar.

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To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly.

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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.

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To improve or focus the mental or emotional state of.

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I ground myself with meditation.

Jule lay on the ground a short distance away.

Coal is found in the ground, too.

The ground rumbled suddenly and the garage walls shook.

She heard him stretch out on the ground and within minutes his breathing changed.

She'd jumped the two stories to the ground and was running towards a large garage.

The camp ground was manned on a volunteer basis.

She threw her leg over the horse and dropped to the ground in a swirl of skirts.

It all appeared innocent until her feet touched the ground, and then he pulled her close, wrapping his arms around her as his lips sought hers hungrily.

He hesitated and then ground out.

The ground beneath was rocky.

He wiped the bloodied dagger on the ground.

Just before the books came, Mr. Gilman had begun to remonstrate with Miss Sullivan on the ground that I was working too hard, and in spite of my earnest protestations, he reduced the number of my recitations.

Didn't you feel the ground shake?

When her attention was drawn to a marble slab inscribed with the name FLORENCE in relief, she dropped upon the ground as though looking for something, then turned to me with a face full of trouble, and asked, "Were is poor little Florence?"

I took particular pleasure in this breaking of ground, for in almost all latitudes men dig into the earth for an equable temperature.

If it should continue so long as to cause the seeds to rot in the ground and destroy the potatoes in the low lands, it would still be good for the grass on the uplands, and, being good for the grass, it would be good for me.

Our right flank is over there"--he pointed sharply to the right, far away in the broken ground--"That's where the Moskva River is, and we have thrown up three redoubts there, very strong ones.

But that lasted no more than a few minutes before the doe dropped to the ground and strained with another contraction.

Rostov did not think what this call for stretchers meant; he ran on, trying only to be ahead of the others; but just at the bridge, not looking at the ground, he came on some sticky, trodden mud, stumbled, and fell on his hands.

He crossed himself with an accustomed movement, bent till he touched the ground with his hand, and bowed his white head with a deep sigh.

And a minute or two later the Frenchman, a black-eyed fellow with a spot on his cheek, in shirt sleeves, really did jump out of a window on the ground floor, and clapping Pierre on the shoulder ran with him into the garden.

This one, a young soldier, his face deadly pale, his shako pushed back, and his musket resting on the ground, still stood near the pit at the spot from which he had fired.

When he rose, her feet dangled high off the ground.

Pete threw his feet over the wagon seat and dropped to the ground.

She snatched the whip from the ground and glared at Bordeaux.

Gentle hands lifted her from the ground, and she buried her face in Bordeaux's chest, sobbing.

Her legs felt like posts, but she drug one foot in front of another until the ground under her feet seemed to change.

Cautiously her fingers felt the ground around her and touched the cold steel barrel.

On the other side of the rocks, water sprang from the ground and spilled off a ledge into a large blue pool.

In dry gourds, they were served a hot tea made from the ground leaves of something Bordeaux called the lip fern.

The dream faded, and Jule slumped to the ground again, unable to fight the darkness.

Two caught her before she hit the ground.

You understand ground and space battles?

Like if I'm in a ball game, I'm the one who has the ground ball roll between my legs.

It hangs from the rooftops like daggers nearly touching the ground.

At some point his past may crawl out of the ground and bite him on the butt, but it won't be because I did the digging.

The flakes were not large, but unlike most gentle Ouray snow storms, they didn't drift to the ground like tiny dust motes.

Connor clenched his fists and ground his teeth in an effort to keep from showing his strength.

Carmen moved to the next stall to find the doe lying on her side, pawing at the ground and panting.

There must be a good twelve inches on the ground already.

The last thing she remembered was the wet ground rushing toward her face.

When his humor failed to bring a smile to her lips he crammed his hands into his pockets and stared at the ground.

Deidre and Toby stood.  Katie started forward, only for the rumbling ground to drive her to her knees.  Horrified, she saw the chasm form a rough circle around them, trapping them on a small island surrounded by football field wide trees and chasms too wide to jump.

Katie stared at him, suspecting he'd lost his mind.  To her surprise, a branch wrapped around her body.  She yelped, shoving at it then went still as it plucked her from the ground and moved her across the ravine, dropping her off in the jungle again.

Kris looked up in time to see Kiki crash through the canopy and plummet towards the ground.  Kris gasped and sprung forward.  A streak of black crossed his vision as a flying demon snatched Kiki out of the air.

He lifted her back through the portal and wrapped an arm around her, pulling her to solid ground again.

Jenn found a stick and carefully returned to the portal, tapping the ground to find where it was solid.

The surface of the department consists of undulating and well-wooded plains, intersected by numerous valleys, and diversified in the north-east by hilly ground which forms a part of the mountain system of the Ardennes.

A dozen of them smashed together and tumbled to the ground, and seeing his success Jim kicked again and again, charging into the vegetable crowd, knocking them in all directions and sending the others scattering to escape his iron heels.

Near the top of a hill he saw a little shepherd boy who was lying on the ground while a flock of sheep and lambs were grazing around him.