Ground

Noun

 * 1)  The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.
 * 2)  Terrain.
 * 3)  Soil, earth.
 * The worm crawls through the ground.
 * 1)  The bottom of a body of water.
 * 2) Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.
 * 3) Background, context, framework, surroundings.
 * 4)  A soccer stadium.
 * Manchester United's ground is known as Old Trafford.
 * 1) 🇺🇸 An electrical conductor connected to the ground.
 * 2) * The British equivalent is earth.
 * 3) 🇺🇸 A level of electrical potential used as a zero reference.
 * 4)   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)

Derived terms

 * air-to-ground
 * aground
 * break ground
 * breeding ground
 * burial ground
 * common ground
 * cricket ground
 * cumber ground/cumber-ground/cumberground
 * dead ground
 * facts on the ground
 * fairground
 * figure and ground
 * from the ground up
 * gain ground
 * get off the ground
 * give ground
 * gill-over-the-ground
 * go to ground
 * ground bait
 * ground ball
 * ground bass
 * ground beetle
 * ground berry
 * ground-breaker
 * ground-breaking
 * ground cable
 * ground cedar
 * ground cherry
 * ground cloth
 * ground clutter
 * ground control
 * ground cover
 * ground effect
 * ground fault
 * ground fir
 * ground fire
 * ground fish
 * ground floor


 * ground forces
 * ground game
 * ground glass
 * ground hemlock
 * ground hog/ground-hog/groundhog
 * ground itch
 * ground ivy
 * ground lamella
 * ground laurel
 * ground level
 * ground loop
 * groundly
 * ground meristem
 * ground noise
 * ground offensive
 * ground out
 * ground pangolin
 * ground pine
 * ground plan
 * ground plane
 * ground plate
 * ground plum
 * ground pounder
 * ground proximity warning system
 * ground rattlesnake
 * ground rent
 * ground robin
 * ground roller
 * ground rule/ground-rule
 * ground-shaker
 * ground shark
 * ground sloth
 * groundsman
 * ground snake
 * ground speed
 * ground spider
 * ground squirrel
 * ground state


 * ground stroke
 * ground substance
 * ground swell
 * ground tackle
 * ground tissue
 * ground-to-air
 * ground truth
 * ground water
 * ground wave
 * ground wire
 * ground zero
 * ground zero
 * groundwork
 * high ground/moral high ground
 * hit the ground running
 * home ground
 * kiss the ground someone walks on
 * lose ground
 * middle ground
 * neutral ground
 * off the ground
 * on the ground
 * parade ground
 * picnic ground
 * pleasure ground
 * proving ground
 * run into the ground
 * solid ground/on solid ground
 * stamping ground
 * stand one's ground
 * stomping ground
 * teeing ground
 * testing ground
 * thick on the ground
 * thin on the ground
 * underground
 * vantage ground



Verb

 * 1) To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground.
 * 2)  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.
 * 1)  To forbid (an aircraft or pilot) to fly.
 * Because of the bad weather, all flights were grounded.
 * 1) To gain a basic education (of a particular subject).
 * Jim was grounded in maths.
 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  (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

Verb
ground


 * I ground the coffee up nicely.
 * I ground the coffee up nicely.

Adjective

 * 1) Crushed,  or reduced to small particles.
 * ground mustard seed
 * 1) Processed by grinding.
 * lenses of ground glass

Synonyms

 * milled

Derived terms

 * ground beef
 * ground pepper
 * stone-ground

Adjectives for Ground
(earth)

analogical; habitual; ticklish; enchanted; avowed; crinkled; soggy; slightest; shaky; tedious; rugged; fragrant; difficult; sanctified; vantage; unexpressed; sterile; dry azure; emotional; vulgar; tainted; solid interesting; attractive; plausible; pastel teeming; scientific;  spacious;  moaning moral; delicate; callous; bordering; hallowed; innate; wounded; cultivated; fiss-ured; commanding; incontrovertible; common; terraced; happy; conceded; illogical dangerous; practical; rough; insufficient good; bloody; reasonable; haunted; holy treacherous; proper; thirsting; technical theological;  sluttish;  slippery; burning vivid; eudaemonistic; trampled; adequate sanctified; superior; extensive; shuddering filthy;  familiar;  untouched;  unmarked spawning; various (pi) ; debatable; heartless; quaking; reigning; cleared; obscure; ridgy; aesthetic; desolate; plain; ornamented; intuitive; neutral; remoter; grassy; subjective; dwelling; dewy; irregular; consecrated; excellent; tenable; dubious; sole base; sectional; tufty; objective; highest waste; alien; precise; casting.

Verbs for Ground
assign—to; carpet—s; cast to—; congest—s; cultivate—; encamp on—s; gain—; parch—; plod over—; plow—; shift—; spade—; stand—; strew—; trample—; tread—; work—; writhe on—. (reasons) afford—for; attack on—; maintain—; object on—.

Thesaurus
Bassalia, a priori principle, abyss, abyssal zone, acres, affirmation, agora, air brush, airspace, alluvion, alluvium, ambition, amphitheater, angle, antecedent, antecedents, apriorism, arable land, area, arena, argument, art paper, aspiration, assertion, assumed position, assumption, athletic field, auditorium, axiom, back, backdrop, background, base, basement, basin, basis, bathyal zone, beach, bear garden, bearing wall, bed, bedding, bedrock, belt, benthos, billiard table, blow down, blow over, bottom, bottom waters, bottomless depths, bottommost, bowl, bowl down, bowl over, bowling green, boxing ring, branny, bring down, broaden the mind, brush, build, build in, bull ring, bulldog, call, calling, camera lucida, camera obscura, campus, canvas, carpet, cast away, cast down, catechize, categorical proposition, causation, cause, cause and effect, chalk, chalklike, chalky, channel, charcoal, chop down, chromogen, cincture, circus, civilize, clay, clod, close, coach, coat, coat of paint, coating, cockpit, coliseum, color, color filter, color gelatin, colorant, coloring, colosseum, comminute, comminuted, compass, confine, confines, confirm, consideration, container, continental shelf, coop, corridor, coulee, country, course, court, courtyard, cover, crayon, crushed, crust, curtilage, cut down, dash down, data, dead flat, dead level, dead-color, deck, deep-dye, define, delimited field, demonstrate, demonstration, department, deposit, determinant, determinative, detrital, detrited, direct, dirt, disintegrated, distance, distemper, district, division, down, drawing paper, drawing pencil, dregs, drier, drop, dry land, dust, dusty, dye, dyestuff, earth, easel, edify, educate, efflorescent, element, embed, enclave, enclosure, engraft, engrave, enlighten, entrench, environs, esplanade, establish, etch, etiology, evidence, excuse, exterior paint, factor, farinaceous, fell, fetch down, field, fine, first principles, fix, fixative, flaky, flat, flat coat, flat wash, flatland, flatten, floor, floor covering, floor enamel, flooring, floury, fold, fond, footing, forum, found, foundation, freehold, fundament, fundamental, furfuraceous, give instruction, give lessons in, glebe, goal, gone to dust, good reason, grassland, grated, grounds, groundwork, guide, guiding light, guiding star, gym, gymnasium, hall, hardpan, heartland, hew down, hinterland, hippodrome, homaloid, horizontal, horizontal axis, horizontal fault, horizontal line, horizontal parallax, horizontal plane, horizontal projection, hypothesis, hypothesis ad hoc, ideal, illumine, impact, impalpable, implant, impress, imprint, infix, inform, infrastructure, ingrain, initiate, inner space, inscribe, inspiration, install, instruct, insulate, intention, interior paint, invest, isolate, jam, justification, knock down, land, landholdings, lay figure, lay level, lay low, lay out, lay the foundation, ledge, lees, lemma, level, level line, level plane, levigated, list, lists, lithosphere, loam, locale, lodestar, lodge, lowest, mainspring, major premise, marginal land, marketplace, marl, mat, material basis, matter, maulstick, mealy, mean sea level, medium, milieu, milled, minor premise, mise-en-scene, mold, motive, mow down, neighborhood, nethermost, occasion, ocean bottom, ocean depths, ocean floor, offshore rights, opaque color, open forum, open the eyes, organize, pack, paint, paintbrush, palaestra, pale, palette, palette knife, paling, parade ground, park, parquet, part, parterre, parts, pastel, pave, pavement, paving, pelagic zone, pen, pencil, perspective, pestled, philosopheme, pigment, pigments, pile up, pit, pitch, place, plain, plane, plant, platform, position, post, postulate, postulation, postulatum, powdered, powdery, prairie, precinct, precincts, precipitate, precipitation, premise, premises, prepare, presupposition, prime coat, primer, priming, principle, print, prize ring, proof, proposition, propositional function, prostrate, public square, pull down, pulverant, pulverized, pulverulent, purlieu, purlieus, put in, put up, quad, quadrangle, quarter, radical, range, rase, rationale, raze, real estate, real property, rear, reason, reduced to powder, reeducate, region, regolith, right, ring, riprap, rock bottom, rock-bottom, root, rudiment, run aground, sake, salient, scaly, scene, scene of action, scenery, school, scobicular, scobiform, scope, score, scratchboard, scurfy, sea level, sea of grass, seat, section, sediment, send headlong, set, set in, set right, set up, setting, settle, settlings, sharded, sharpen the wits, shipwreck, show, show how, shredded, siccative, sill, site, sketchbook, sketchpad, sod, soil, solid ground, solid rock, source, space, spatula, sphere, spray gun, spread-eagle, spring, square, squared circle, stadium, stage, stage set, stage setting, stain, stamp, stand, standing, statement, station, status, steppe, stereobate, stereotype, stimulus, strand, stump, stylobate, subaerial deposit, subsoil, substance, substratum, substruction, substructure, sumption, supinate, supposal, surfacing, sustain, table, take down, take the ground, teach, teach a lesson, teach the rudiments, tempera, terra, terra firma, terrace, terrain, territory, test, testimony, the country, the deep, the deep sea, the deeps, the depths, theater, theorem, thesis, thinner, three-mile limit, throw, throw down, tilting ground, tiltyard, tinction, tincture, toft, topple, topsoil, train, transparent color, trench, trial, trip, triturated, truth table, truth-function, truth-value, tumble, turf, turpentine, turps, tutor, twelve-mile limit, ulterior motive, underbuilding, undercarriage, undercoat, undercoating, undergirding, undermost, underpinning, understruction, understructure, varnish, vehicle, venue, vest, vicinage, vicinity, viewpoint, vocation, walk, warrant, wash, wash coat, water level, wedge, whack down, wherefore, why, whyfor, woodland, wreck, wrestling ring, yard, zone

Etymology 1
From grund, from, from. Cognate with West Frisian grûn:, Dutch grond: and German Grund:.

Etymology 2

 * See also milled.

Noun

 * Arabic: أرض
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: зямля
 * Bulgarian: земя
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 地
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German: Erde,
 * Greek:
 * Hindi: ज़मीन
 * Hungarian: föld
 * Japanese: 地, 土
 * Korean: 땅


 * Macedonian: земја
 * Navajo:
 * Persian: زمین
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: sol
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: земља
 * Roman: zemlja
 * Slovak: zem
 * Slovene:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Ukrainian: земля
 * Urdu: زمین
 * West Frisian: grûn


 * Arabic: أرض
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: зямля
 * Bulgarian: земя
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 土, 地, 土壤
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, ,  Erdreich
 * Greek:
 * Haitian Creole:


 * Hindi: ज़मीन
 * Hungarian: föld
 * Korean: 땅, 흙
 * Macedonian: земја
 * Persian: زمین
 * Polish: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: talamh, ùir
 * Swedish: ,
 * Thai: ดิน
 * Urdu: زمین


 * Armenian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * German:


 * Greek:
 * Korean: 바닥 (badag, -k), 바다 (bada for sea)
 * Polish: ,
 * Russian:


 * Armenian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ondergrond
 * Finnish: ,
 * German: Grundfeste


 * Greek:
 * Korean: 바탕 (batang)
 * Polish: ,
 * Russian: основа, база
 * Swedish:


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, ,


 * Korean: 바탕 (batang), 테두리 (teduri)
 * Swedish:


 * Dutch:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:


 * Korean: 접지 (接地, jeobji)
 * Polish: uziemienie
 * Russian: заземление,
 * Swedish: ,


 * Dutch:
 * German: Bezugspotenzial
 * Korean: 접지 (接地, jeobji)


 * Polish: uziemienie
 * Russian: заземление,
 * Swedish:


 * : (’arD)
 * : grundo
 * : sol
 * : tanah, lapangan
 * : suolo (1, 3), terreno  (1, 3), terra  (1, 2, 3, 5, 6)


 * : 地面 (じめん, jimen), グラウンド (guraundo)
 * : humus, terra
 * : zem pôda
 * : నేల (nEla)

Verb

 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:


 * Hungarian: ,
 * Russian: заземлять, заземлить
 * Swedish:


 * Czech: dát domácí vězení
 * Dutch:
 * German: Hausarrest geben
 * Hungarian: szobafogságra ítél


 * Portuguese:
 * deixar de castigo
 * Swedish:


 * Dutch:
 * German: Startverbot erteilen


 * Swedish: belägga med flygförbud,