Word Finder - grounded

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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.

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(of an airman) Not allowed to fly.

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(of a person, predicative) Confined to stay inside, typically by a parent, as a punishment.

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(of a person) Mature, sensible with well-considered priorities.

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Of or pertaining to an electrical conductor which is connected to earth; earthed.

Darian's grounded 'til further notice.

Alfonso lost the use of his cell phone for a month and Alex grounded Jonathan for the same amount of time.

The point of view is to be modified profoundly by what follows - by the doctrine of the class-concept behind the class, of the form or idea as the constitutive formula of a substance, or, again, by the requirement that an essential attribute must be grounded in the nature or essence of the substance of which it is predicated, and that such attributes alone are admissible predicates from the point of view of the strict ideal of science.

He was not well grounded in any of the elementary branches, which are essential to university studies and to all success in their prosecution.

Both engines brought up, and she grounded 300 yd.

Of a non-self-subsistent or attributive conception definition in its highest attainable form is a recasting of the syllogism, in which it was shown that the attribute was grounded in the substance or self-subsistent subject of which it is.

Enough has been said to justify the great place assigned to Aristotle in the history of logic. Without pressing metaphysical formulae in logic proper, he analysed formal;implica tion, grounded implication as a mode of knowledge Summary.

Hume derived from him the explanatory formula of the association of ideas, 8 which is, however, still with Hobbes a fact to be accounted for, not a theory to account for facts, being grounded physically in " coherence of the matter moved."

The claims of the imperial government, jurisdictional and other, were acknowledged, only such rights of self-government being admitted as could be shown to be grounded on imperial charters.

Lastly, I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil ends; for I have taken all knowledge to be my province; and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with frivolous disputations, confutations and verbosities, the other with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed so many spoils, I hope I should bring in industrious observations, grounded conclusions and profitable inventions and discoveries - the best state of that province.

By Ancillon he was grounded in religion, in history and political science, his natural taste for the antique and the picturesque making it easy for his tutor to impress upon him his own hatred of the Revolution and its principles.

Stubbs was a High Churchman whose doctrines and practice were grounded on learning and a veneration for antiquity.

By sceptics the word " dogma " is generally used contemptuously, for an opinion grounded not upon evidence but upon assertion; and this attitude is so far justified from the purely empirical standpoint that theological dogmas deal with subjects which, by their very nature, are not susceptible of demonstration by the methods of physical science.

The organization of the administrative system in the Austrian Empire was complicated by the fact that between the State and the purely local communal administration there intruded yet a third element, grounded in history, the territories (Lander).

Rowland had never been to a university, but, like Harris, he had been well grounded in general knowledge.

He argued that the determination of the tribunal must be grounded upon "the principles of right," that "by the rule or principle of right was meant a moral rule dictated by the general standard of justice upon which civilized nations are agreed, that this international standard of justice is but another name for international law, that the particular recognized rules were but cases of the application of a more general rule, and that where the particular rules were silent the general rule applied."

Well grounded in his boyhood, and thoroughly educated in his manhood, Aristotle, after Plato's death, had the further advantage of travel in his third period, when he was in his prime.

Wolmar, who had taught Greek to Calvin, grounded Beza in Scripture from a Protestant standpoint; after his return to Germany (1534) Beza studied law at Orleans (May 1535 to August 1539), beginning practice in Paris (1539) as law licentiate.

The synod grounded its procedure against the rival popes on a fact, ostensibly patent to all, but actually believed by none - that they were both supporters of the schism, and not merely this, but heretics in the truest and fullest sense of the word, since their attitude had impugned and subverted the article of faith concerning the one Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.

The class is either constituted by enumeration of its members, and, passing by the difficulty involved in the thought of " its " members, is an empirical universal of fact merely, or it is grounded in the class-concept.

Definition is either of the subject-kind or of the property that is grounded in it.

In the 17th century the use of instruments became a necessity; but there were at first no organized ideas for their treatment except those which were grounded on their use as supporting and imitating the voice.

She grounded on the eastern bank and the charges were fired.

The difficulty found in getting the ships out - one of them grounded - showed how disastrous an attempt to draw off under fire of the forts must have been.

However well grounded this reasoning may be, it altogether misses the point at which Butler aimed, and is indeed a misconception of the nature of analogical argument.

The boat - grounded in the shallows collects water-plants croaking frogs pale fish.

I cajoled us on in an anxious bid for a raised knoll where a breeze would ensure midges stayed grounded.

He sympathized with the principle of faith of Jacobi, but regarded it as arbitrary so long as it was not recognized as grounded in reason.

We thus after all fall back on reflection as our ground for their universal application; mere spontaneity of apprehension is futile; their universality is grounded in their necessity, not their necessity in their universality.

This boundless region affords at the best probabilities, ultimately grounded on moral faith, all beyond lies within the veil.

Christian Wisdom, so far as it is speculative, is of course primarily theological; it has God, as the highest truth, for its chief object, and is therefore necessarily grounded on faith.

In or near Iioo B.C., Chou Kung, an able mathematician, determined with surprising accuracy the obliquity of the ecliptic; but his attempts to estimate the sun's distance failed hopelessly as being grounded on belief in the flatness of the earth.

In his pastoral letter to his clergy urging them to take the oath of allegiance, Burnet grounded the claim of William and Mary on the right of conquest, a view which gave such offence that the pamphlet was burnt by the common hangman three years later.

He first applied to the theological schoolmen, who grounded their religion on reason; but their aim was only to preserve the faith from heresy.

He inferred from the regularity of their general movements the rotation of the sun on its axis in a period of little less than a month; and he grounded on the varying nature of the paths seemingly traversed by them a plausible, though inconclusive, argument in favour of the earth's annual revolution.

But this, since it arises from the moral order as a unity grounded in the very essence of freedom and not accidentally instituted by external commands, establishes the teleology of nature on grounds which a priori must be inseparably connected with the inner possibility of things.

Gustavus was well grounded in the classics, and his linguistic accomplishments were extraordinary.

The next time you leave the compound without telling me, you'll be grounded until Damian returns.

He was early this year, but he.d rather visit now than risk he.d be grounded during winter solstice in a month.

With rich data, grounded theorists can more readily discernwhat participants mean and how they define their experiences.

But data are only genuinely comparative if the whole process is grounded in shared understandings of the purpose and meaning of questions.

Lifeboat assists grounded creel boat The Kirkwall lifeboat was called out on Tuesday to assist a creel boat The Kirkwall lifeboat was called out on Tuesday to assist a creel fishing boat aground off the Rendall shore.

So not only do I fear death, but I have no mental crutch to keep me grounded.

Menger's rational egoism recognizes that value is grounded in human needs and their satisfaction.

Popular support, grounded in ancient enmity, withered as tens of thousands of coffins arrived from the battlefields.

Instead we have a clear-headed analysis informed by, and grounded in an intimate familiarity with, archeological realities and astronomical phenomena.

A sixth fatality involved a newly fledged juvenile which was found grounded unable to fly.

Large flocks of northern fulmar fulmar Fulmarus glacialis and gulls feed among the grounded icebergs.

Original, also preliminary, theoretical ideas or experimental studies and propositions of new heuristics when they support or point toward theoretically grounded principles.

So the research is trying to take a very holistic perspective, but still grounded in what's going on in the classroom.