Burying ground
() Alt. of Burying place |
Floor
(n.) The bottom or lower part of any room |
Floor
(n.) The structure formed of beams, girders, etc., with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into stories. Floor in sense 1 is, then, the upper surface of floor in sense 2. |
Floor
(n.) The surface, or the platform, of a structure on which we walk or travel |
Floor
(n.) A story of a building. See Story. |
Floor
(n.) The part of the house assigned to the members. |
Floor
(n.) The right to speak. |
Floor
(n.) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal. |
Floor
(n.) The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit. |
Floor
(n.) A horizontal, flat ore body. |
Floor
(v. t.) To cover with a floor |
Floor
(v. t.) To strike down or lay level with the floor |
Floor
(v. t.) To finish or make an end of |
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. |
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 |
cabaret
floorshow
floor show | a series of acts at a night club |
| 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 |
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 |
| dance floor | a bare floor polished for dancing |
flat coat
ground
primer priming primer coat
priming coat
undercoat | the first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface |
floor
flooring | the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure), they needed rugs to cover the bare floors, we spread our sleeping bags on the dry floor of the tent |
floor level storey
story | a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale, what level is the office on? |
| floor trading floor | a large room in a exchange where the trading is done, he is a floor trader |
| floor | the legislative hall where members debate and vote and conduct other business, there was a motion from the floor |
floorboard
floor board | a board in the floor |
floor cover
floor covering | a covering for a floor |
| floor joist | joist that supports a floor |
| floor lamp | a lamp that stands on the floor |
| floor plan | scale drawing of a horizontal section through a building at a given level, contrasts with elevation |
fly gallery
fly floor | a narrow raised platform at the side of a stage in a theater, stagehands can work the ropes controlling equipment in the flies |
| 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 |
mezzanine
mezzanine floor
entresol | intermediate floor just above the ground floor |
| parquet parquet floor | a floor made of parquetry |
| proving ground | a workplace for testing new equipment or ideas |
| shop floor | workplace consisting of the part of a factory housing the machines, the productive work is done on the shop floor |
| threshing floor | a floor or ground area for threshing or treading out grain |
| grade ground level | the height of the ground on which something stands, the base of the tower was below grade |
| floor | the parliamentary right to address an assembly, the chairman granted him the floor |
| privilege of the floor | the right to be admitted onto the floor of a legislative assembly while it is in session |