Burying ground () Alt. of Burying place |
Detention (n.) The act of detaining or keeping back |
Detention (n.) The state of being detained (stopped or hindered) |
Detention (n.) Confinement |
Ground (imp. & p. p.) of Grind |
Ground (n.) The surface of the earth |
Ground (n.) A floor or pavement supposed to rest upon the earth. |
Ground (n.) Any definite portion of the earth's surface |
Ground (n.) Land |
Ground (n.) The basis on which anything rests |
Ground (n.) That surface upon which the figures of a composition are set, and which relieves them by its plainness, being either of one tint or of tints but slightly contrasted with one another |
Ground (n.) In sculpture, a flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief. |
Ground (n.) In point lace, the net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied |
Ground (n.) A gummy composition 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. |
Ground (n.) One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which moldings, etc., are attached |
Ground (n.) A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a varying melody. |
Ground (n.) The tune on which descants are raised |
Ground (n.) A conducting connection with the earth, whereby the earth is made part of an electrical circuit. |
Ground (n.) Sediment at the bottom of liquors or liquids |
Ground (n.) The pit of a theater. |
Ground (v. t.) To lay, set, or run, on the ground. |
Ground (v. t.) To found |
Ground (v. t.) To instruct in elements or first principles. |
Ground (v. t.) To connect with the ground so as to make the earth a part of an electrical circuit. |
Ground (v. t.) To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching (see Ground, n., 5) |
Ground (v. i.) To run aground |
Ground () imp. & p. p. of Grind. |
Middle-ground (n.) That part of a picture between the foreground and the background. |
Reason (n.) A thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion |
Reason (n.) The faculty or capacity of the human mind by which it is distinguished from the intelligence of the inferior animals |
Reason (n.) Due exercise of the reasoning faculty |
Reason (n.) Ratio |
Reason (n.) To exercise the rational faculty |
Reason (n.) Hence: To carry on a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute |
Reason (n.) To converse |
Reason (v. t.) To arrange and present the reasons for or against |
Reason (v. t.) To support with reasons, as a request. |
Reason (v. t.) To persuade by reasoning or argument |
Reason (v. t.) To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons |
Reason (v. t.) To find by logical processes |
Winter-ground (v. t.) To coved over in the season of winter, as for protection or shelter |
grounder ground ball groundball hopper | (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground |
ground stroke | a tennis return made by hitting the ball after it has bounced once |
dark ground illumination dark field illumination | a form of microscopic examination of living material by scattered light, specimens appear luminous against a dark background |
ground attack | an attack by ground troops |
detention | a punishment in which a student must stay at school after others have gone home, the detention of tardy pupils |
ground-shaker seismosaur | huge herbivorous dinosaur of the Cretaceous found in western North America |
ground snake Sonora semiannulata | small shy brightlyinged terrestrial snake of arid or semiarid areas of western North America |
eastern ground snake Potamophis striatula Haldea striatula | in some classifications placed in genus Haldea, small reddish-grey snake of eastern North America |
ground rattler massasauga Sistrurus miliaris | small pygmy rattlesnake |
ground roller | Madagascan roller with terrestrial and crepuscular habits that feeds on e.g. insects and worms |
ground beetle carabid beetle | predacious shining black or metallic terrestrial beetle that destroys many injurious insects |
ground squirrel gopher spermophile | any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds, often destroy crops |
mantled ground squirrel Citellus lateralis | common black-striped reddish-brown ground squirrel of western North America, resembles a large chipmunk |
flickertail Richardson ground squirrel Citellus richardsoni | of sagebrush and grassland areas of western United States and Canada |
Arctic ground squirrel parka squirrel Citellus parryi | large ground squirrel of the North American far north |
eastern chipmunk hackee striped squirrel ground squirrel Tamias striatus | small striped semiterrestrial eastern American squirrel with cheek pouches |
barren ground caribou Rangifer arcticus | of tundra of northern Canada, in some classifications included in the species Rangifer tarandus |
ground sloth megathere | gigantic extinct terrestrial sloth-like mammal of the Pliocene and Pleistocene in America |
air-to-ground missile air-to-surface missile | a missile designed to be launched from an airplane at a target on the ground |
anchor ground tackle | a mechanical device that prevents a vessel from moving |
bullpen detention cell detention centre | a large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily |
detention home detention house house of detention detention camp | an institution where juvenile offenders can be held temporarily (usually under the supervision of a juvenile court) |
flat coat ground primer priming primer coat priming coat undercoat | the first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface |
ground | (art) the surface (as a wall or canvas) prepared to take the paint for a painting |
ground earth | a connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage) |
ground bait | bait scattered on the water to attract fish |
ground cable | a mooring cable, runs from a buoy to a mooring anchor |
ground control | a communication system for sending continuous radio messages to an airplane pilot who is making a groundontrolled approach to landing |
ground floor first floor ground level | the floor of a building that is at or nearest to the level of the ground around the building |
ground plan | a floor plan for the ground level of a building |
groundsheet ground cloth | a waterproofed piece of cloth spread on the ground (as under a tent) to protect from moisture |
hovercraft ground-effect machine | a craft capable of moving over water or land on a cushion of air created by jet engines |
land mine ground-emplaced mine booby trap | an explosive mine hidden underground, explodes when stepped on or driven over |
proving ground | a workplace for testing new equipment or ideas |
yard grounds curtilage | the enclosed land around a house or other building, it was a small house with almost no yard |
grade ground level | the height of the ground on which something stands, the base of the tower was below grade |
hyaloplasm ground substance | the clear nongranular portion of the cytoplasm of a cell |
matrix intercellular substance ground substance | the body substance in which tissue cells are embedded |
reason understanding intellect | the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination, we are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil |
reason | a fact that logically justifies some premise or conclusion, there is reason to believe he is lying |
evidence grounds | your basis for belief or disbelief, knowledge on which to base belief, the evidence that smoking causes lung cancer is very compelling |
ground | a relatively homogeneous percept extending back of the figure on which attention is focused |
background ground | the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground, he posed her against a background of rolling hills |
reason | an explanation of the cause of some phenomenon, the reason a steady state was never reached was that the back pressure built up too slowly |
cause reason grounds | a justification for something existing or happening, he had no cause to complain, they had good reason to rejoice |
ground bass | a short melody in the bass that is constantly repeated |
ground rule | (baseball) a special rule (as in baseball) dealing with situations that arise due to the nature of the playing grounds |
ground loop | a sharp uncontrollable turn made by an airplane while moving along the ground |
ground fire | a forest fire that burns the humus, may not appear on the surface |
ground floor | becoming part of a venture at the beginning (regarded as position of advantage), he got in on the ground floor |