Word Finder - grounds

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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.

And apparently, he alone knows how to render the grounds no longer sacred.

He was trying to make the best of a situation most men would have considered grounds for divorce.

Jackson had decided to build a gallery on the grounds, and although she protested, he knew she would be thrilled with it.

Taking the Eiraku porcelains of Kioto as models, Hachiroemon employed red grounds with designs traced on them in gold.

Prince Andrew, depressed and preoccupied with the business about which he had to speak to the Marshal, was driving up the avenue in the grounds of the Rostovs' house at Otradnoe.

There is record of a club in Haddington in 1709, of Tom Bicket's green in Kilmarnock in 1740, of greens in Candleriggs and Gallowgate, Glasgow, and of one in Lanark in 1750, of greens in the grounds of Heriot's hospital, Edinburgh, prior to 1768, and of one in Peebles in 1775.

The cathedral of Curtea de Argesh, by far the most famous building in Rumania, stands in the grounds of a monastery, 12 m.

Parker (at one time music-master at the school), was held in the grounds of Sherborne Castle, and set the model for a succession of pageants held subsequently in other historic English towns.

In the grounds of the residence called the Friars stands the shell of the apsidal choir of a Decorated chapel which belonged to a Franciscan house.

Not far distant, on a conspicuous position close by the banks of the Doon, stands the Grecian monument to Burns, in the grounds of which is the grotto containing Thom's figures of Tam o' Shanter and Souter Johnnie.

The principal sulphur springs are the old sulphur well in the centre of Low Harrogate, discovered about the year 1656; the Montpellier springs, the principal well of which was discovered in 1822, situated in the grounds of the Crown Hotel and surmounted by a handsome building in the Chinese style, containing pump-room, baths and reading-room; and the Harlow Car springs, situated in a wooded glen about a mile west from Low Harrogate.

The scents of food from street vendors and car exhaust filled the air outside the quiet hospital grounds.

The night was cold and dark as he strode across the park to the edge of the castle.s grounds.

On these grounds it has been sought to establish a close relation between Vico and Grotius.

On the moors to the north-west, and including Rivington Pike (1192 ft.), is another public park, and there are various smaller pleasure grounds.

Most dissipation results are exposed to considerable uncertainty on these grounds.

In the castle grounds are the remains of the ancient chapel of St John.

There are pleasant recreation grounds on the Derbyshire side of the river.

Sir Michael Costa was the conductor 1846-1854, and from his acceptance of that high pitch the fork became known as Costa's, and its inception was attributed to him, though on insufficient grounds.

The so-called " pampas-grass " (Gynerium argenteum) is not found at all on the dry lands, but in the wet grounds of the south and south-west.

There are excellent fishing grounds on the coast, but they have had no appreciable influence in developing a commerical marine.

This piece was favourably received, and an attempt to suppress it on religious grounds failed.

But generally the low grounds are parched and rocky, presenting only a few thickets of Peruvian cactus and stunted shrubs, and a most uninviting shore.

Preston and Queen's parks are the principal of several public recreation grounds; and the racecourse at Kemp Town is also the property of the town.

There are, however, independent grounds for believing that i Chron.

The coal has been treated and found to be of good quality, and there are grounds for supposing that there are 250,000,000 tons in the field.

Among several military memorials, one in the Academy grounds was erected to the Prince Imperial of France, for two years a student in the Academy.

Lake Champlain furnishes the only commerical fishing grounds in Vermont, with the exceptions of small catches of white fish in Lake Bomoseen, Lake St Catherine in Rutland county and Lake Memphremagog.

Aston Lower Grounds, adjoining the park, contain an assembly hall, and the playing field of the Aston Villa Football Club, where the more important games are witnessed by many thousands of spectators.

Cromwell, who was as a rule especially scrupulous in protecting non-combatants from violence, justified his severity in this case by the cruelties perpetrated by the Irish in the rebellion of 1641, and as being necessary on military and political grounds in that it "would tend to prevent the effusion of blood for the future, which were the satisfactory grounds of such actions which otherwise cannot but work remorse and regret."

At South Manchester, an attractive industrial village, a silk mill was built in 1838; the silk mills of one firm (Cheney Brothers) here cover about 12 acres; the company has done much for its employees, whose homes are almost all detached cottages in attractive grounds.

There is some reason to hope that the day of these misconceptions is passed; although there is also some reason to fear that on other grounds the present era may be known to posterity as an era of instrumentation comparable, in its gorgeous chaos of experiment and its lack of consistent ideas of harmony and form, only to the monodic period at the beginning of the 17th century, in which no one had ears for anything but experiments in harmonic colour.

Thus we justify, on grounds of instrumentation, laws usually known as laws of harmony and counterpoint.

On grounds of policy and morality alike the act was quite indefensible; but it is perhaps some palliation of his perjury that it was committed to satisfy the last urgent wish of a dying man, and that he alone remained true to the nine days' queen when the others who had with him signed Edward's device deserted her.

Yet the natural or physical theology of the philosophers - in contrast to mere myths or mere statecraft - seems a straightforward effort to reach faith in God on grounds of scientific reason.

He holds - on grounds of fact and science - to the mechanical orderliness of nature, but claims that the Weltanschauung thus suggested may be reinterpreted in view of those undying human aspirations which MacTaggart dismisses to instant execution (unless they can dress themselves in syllogism).

Whether he had really given any grounds for suspicion is unknown; but there is no doubt, so great was his popularity with the soldiers and such the hatred felt for Nero, that he could easily have seized the throne.

Iwanzov [27] has brought forward strong grounds for the latter view, pointing out that the cnidoblast has no contractile mechanism and that measurements show discharged capsules to be on the average slightly larger than undischarged ones.

The Hertwigs when they discovered the endoderm-lamella showed on morphological grounds that polyp and medusa are independent types, each produced by modification in different directions of a more primitive type represented in development by the actinulastage.

Cuvier on anatomical, and Von Baer on embryological grounds, made the further step of proving that, even in this limited sense, animals cannot be arranged in a single series, but that there are several distinct plans of organization to be observed among them, no one of which, in its highest and most complicated modification, leads to any of the others.

Those who were unwilling to accept evolution, without better grounds than such as are offered by Lamarck, and who therefore preferred to suspend their judgment on the question, found in the principle of selective breeding, pursued in all its applications with marvellous knowledge and skill by Darwin, a valid explanation of the occurrence of varieties and races; and they saw clearly that, if the explanation would apply to species, it would not only solve the problem of their evolution, but that it would account for the facts of teleology, as well as for those of morphology; and for the persistence of some forms of life unchanged through long epochs of time, while others undergo comparatively rapid metamorphosis.

On the higher clay grounds cattle-rearing and horse-breeding are also practised, together with butter and cheese making.

Long ago Westergaard, Rhys Davids and Ernst Kuhn,' had made the same suggestion, mainly on historical grounds, Mahinda, who took the texts to Ceylon, having been born at Vedisa in that district.

There is a small government house, standing in beautiful grounds, adjoining Albert Park, with plantations of oaks and pines.

The parks are the Domain, with a botanical garden, the Albert Park near the harbour, with a bronze statue of Queen Victoria, the extensive grounds at One Tree.

There, are recreation grounds.

Dana, but, as already stated, has later received support on purely physical grounds.

It confirms the general belief on geological grounds that this was the seat of their development at the close of the Mesozoic era.

On the fertile low grounds along the margins of rivers or in clearings of forests, agricultural communities naturally take their rise, dwelling in villages and cultivating the wild grains, which by careful nurture and selection have been turned into rich cereals.

The state fair grounds of 115 acres adjoin the city, and there is also a beautiful cemetery of 220 acres.