1. s. The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.
2. s. Terrain.
3. s. Soil, earth.
The worm crawls through the ground.
The fox escaped from the hounds by going to ground.
4. s. The bottom of a body of water.
5. s. Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.
6. s. reason, Reason, (epistemic) justification, cause.
You will need to show good grounds for your action.
He could not come on grounds of health, or on health grounds.
7. s. Background, context, framework, surroundings.
8. s. (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".
9. s. (metaphorical) Hence, by extension, advantage given or gained in any contest; e.g. in football, chess, debate or academic discourse.
10. s. plain surface upon which the figures of an artistic composition are set.
crimson flowers on a white ground
11. s. In sculpture, a flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief.
12. s. In point lace, the net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied.
Brussels ground
13. s. 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.
14. s. (architecture, mostly, in the plural) One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which mouldings etc. are attached.
Grounds are usually put up first and the plastering floated flush with them.
15. s. A soccer stadium.
Manchester United's ground is known as Old Trafford.
16. s. (electricity, Canadian, and US) An electrical conductor connected to the ground.
17. s. (electricity, Canadian, and US) A level of electrical potential used as a zero reference.
18. s. (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 (h
19. s. (music) A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a varying melody.
20. s. (music) The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.
21. s. The pit of a theatre.
22. v. (US) To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground.
23. v. To punish, especially a child or teenager, by forcing him/her to stay at home and/or give up certain privileges.
If you don't clean your room, I'll have no choice but to ground you.
Eric, you are grounded until further notice for lying to us about where you were last night!
My kids are currently grounded from television.
24. v. To forbid (an aircraft or pilot) to fly.
Because of the bad weather, all flights were grounded.
25. v. To give a basic education in a particular subject; to instruct in elements or first principles.
Jim was grounded in maths.
26. v. (baseball) 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.
27. v. (cricket) (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
28. v. (intransitive) To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed.
The ship grounded on the bar.
29. v. To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly.
30. v. (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.
31. v. To improve or focus the mental or emotional state of.
I ground myself with meditation.
32. v. simple past tense and past participle of grind
1. s. A mixture of sand and organic material, used to support plant growth.
2. s. The unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth that serves as a natural medium for the growth of land plants.
3. s. The unconsolidated mineral or organic matter on the surface of the earth that has been subjected to and shows effects of genetic and environmental factors of: climate (including water and temperature
4. s. Country or territory.
The refugees returned to their native soil.
Kenyan soil
5. s. That which soils or pollutes; a stain.
6. s. A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer.
7. s. Dung; compost; manure.
night soil
8. v. To make dirty.
9. v. (intransitive) To become dirty or soiled.
Light colours soil sooner than dark ones.
10. v. (transitive, figurative) To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
11. v. (reflexive) To dirty one's clothing by accidentally defecating while clothed.
12. v. To make invalid, to ruin.
13. v. To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
14. s. (euphemistic) Faeces or urine etc. when found on clothes.
15. s. (medicine) A bag containing soiled items.
16. s. A wet or marshy place in which a boar or other such game seeks refuge when hunted.
17. v. To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an enclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (such food having the effect of purging them), to
to soil a horse
floor
1. s. Suelo
2. s. Piso, planta
3. s. Nivel mínimo
4. s. Fondo
5. s. Zona reservada a los titulares de escaños en un parlamento
6. s. Por extensión, palabra, derecho a hablar
7. Solar, entarimar
8. Derribar, tumbar
9. Anonadar
floor
1. s. The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
The room has a wooden floor.
2. s. Ground (surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground).
3. s. The lower inside surface of a hollow space.
Many sunken ships rest on the ocean floor.
The floor of a cave served the refugees as a home.
The pit floor showed where a ring of post holes had been.
4. s. A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
5. s. The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
Wooden planks of the old bridge's floor were nearly rotten.
6. s. A storey/story of a building.
For years we lived on the third floor.
7. s. In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
8. s. Hence, the right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
Will the senator from Arizona yield the floor?
The mayor often gives a lobbyist the floor.
9. s. (nautical) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
10. s. (mining) The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
11. s. (mining) A horizontal, flat ore body.
12. s. (mathematics) The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
The floor of 4.5 is 4.
13. s. (gymnastics) An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface.
14. s. (gymnastics) A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.
15. s. (finance) A lower limit on the interest rate payable on an otherwise variable-rate loan, used by lenders to defend against falls in interest rates. Opposite of a cap.
16. s. A dance floor.
17. s. The area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition
18. v. To cover or furnish with a floor.
floor a house with pine boards
19. v. To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
20. v. (driving, slang) To accelerate rapidly.
21. v. To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.
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