| earth | |
| 1. n. Soil. | |
| This is good earth for growing potatoes. | |
| 2. n. Any general rock-based material. | |
| She sighed when the plane's wheels finally touched earth. | |
| 3. n. The ground, land (as opposed to the sky or sea). | |
| Birds are of the sky, not of the earth. | |
| 4. n. (British) A connection electrically to the earth ((US) ground); on equipment: a terminal connected in that manner. | |
| 5. n. A fox's home or lair. | |
| 6. n. The world of our current life (as opposed to heaven or an afterlife). | |
| 7. n. (alchemy, philosophy, and Taoism) The aforementioned soil- or rock-based material, considered one of the four or five classical elements. | |
| 8. v. To connect electrically to the earth. | |
| That noise is because the amplifier is not properly earthed. | |
| 9. v. To bury. | |
| 10. v. To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den. | |
| 11. v. (intransitive) To burrow. | |
