English Online Dictionary. What means ground? What does ground mean?
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ɡɹaʊnd/
- Rhymes: -aʊnd
Etymology 1
From Middle English ground, from Old English grund, from Proto-West Germanic *grundu, from Proto-Germanic *grunduz. Cognate with West Frisian grûn, Dutch grond and German Grund.
Alternative forms
- GND (contraction used in electronics)
Noun
ground (countable and uncountable, plural grounds)
- 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.
- Brussels ground
- (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, UK) A soccer stadium.
- (electricity) 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”).
Synonyms
- (electricity) earth (British)
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- English terms starting with “ground”
Translations
See also
- floor
- terra firma
Verb
ground (third-person singular simple present grounds, present participle grounding, simple past and past participle grounded)
- (US) To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground.
- Synonym: earth
- (Philippines) To electrocute.
- (transitive) To punish, especially a child or teenager, by forcing them to stay at home and/or give up certain privileges.
- Synonym: gate
- (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.
- (cricket) To place a bat or part of the body on the ground to avoid being run out.
- (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.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
Inflected form of grind. See also milled.
Verb
ground
- simple past and past participle of grind
Adjective
ground (not comparable)
- Crushed, or reduced to small particles.
- Synonym: milled
- Processed by grinding.
- 2018, H Glimpel, HJ Lauffer, A Bremstahler, Finishing Tool, In Particular End Milling Cutter, US Patent App. 15/764,739
- An advantage of such a finishing tool is that, after the machining, the workpiece has high surface quality. The surface which is produced appears finely ground to polished by means of this procedure.
Derived terms
Translations
Descendants
- → Tok Pisin: graun
References
- “ground”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
- dog run
Middle English
Alternative forms
- grund, grounde
Etymology
From Old English grund, from Proto-West Germanic *grundu, from Proto-Germanic *grunduz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡruːnd/
Noun
ground
- ground
- Earth
Declension
Descendants
- English: ground
- → Fiji Hindi: garaund
- → Maltese: grawnd
- Geordie English: grund, groond
- Scots: grund, groond, greund
- Yola: greoune, greoun, greound
References
- “grǒund, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.