Attack (v. t.) To fall upon with force |
Attack (v. t.) To assail with unfriendly speech or writing |
Attack (v. t.) To set to work upon, as upon a task or problem, or some object of labor or investigation. |
Attack (v. t.) To begin to affect |
Attack (v. i.) To make an onset or attack. |
Attack (n.) The act of attacking, or falling on with force or violence |
Attack (n.) An assault upon one's feelings or reputation with unfriendly or bitter words. |
Attack (n.) A setting to work upon some task, etc. |
Attack (n.) An access of disease |
Attack (n.) The beginning of corrosive, decomposing, or destructive action, by a chemical agent. |
Banding plane () A plane used for cutting out grooves and inlaying strings and bands in straight and circular work. |
Burying ground () Alt. of Burying place |
Capping plane () A plane used for working the upper surface of staircase rails. |
Convexo-plane (a.) Convex on one side, and flat on the other |
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. |
Plane (n.) Any tree of the genus Platanus. |
Plane (a.) Without elevations or depressions |
Plane (a.) A surface, real or imaginary, in which, if any two points are taken, the straight line which joins them lies wholly in that surface |
Plane (a.) An ideal surface, conceived as coinciding with, or containing, some designated astronomical line, circle, or other curve |
Plane (a.) A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface, used as a standard of flatness |
Plane (a.) A tool for smoothing boards or other surfaces of wood, for forming moldings, etc. It consists of a smooth-soled stock, usually of wood, from the under side or face of which projects slightly the steel cutting edge of a chisel, called the iron, which inclines backward, with an apperture in front for the escape of shavings |
Plane (a.) To make smooth |
Plane (a.) To efface or remove. |
Plane (a.) Figuratively, to make plain or smooth. |
Plane-parallel (a.) Having opposite surfaces exactly plane and parallel, as a piece of glass. |
Plane table () See under Plane, a. |
Plane tree () Same as 1st Plane. |
grounder ground ball groundball hopper | (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground |
attack tone-beginning | a decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase |
attack | an offensive move in a sport or game, they won the game with a -hit attack in the th inning |
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 |
attack attempt | the act of attacking, attacks on women increased last year, they made an attempt on his life |
approach attack plan of attack | ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation, his approach to every problem is to draw up a list of pros and cons, an attack on inflation, his plan of attack was misguided |
biological warfare BW biological attack biologic attack bioattack | the use of bacteria or viruses or toxins to destroy men and animals or food |
attack onslaught onset onrush | (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons), the attack began at dawn |
air raid air attack | an attack by armed planes on a surface target |
ground attack | an attack by ground troops |
banzai attack banzai charge | a mass attack of troops without concern for casualties, originated by Japanese who accompanied it with yells of `banzai' |
diversion diversionary attack | an attack calculated to draw enemy defense away from the point of the principal attack |
preventive strike preventive attack | a strike that is carried out in order to deter expected aggression by hostile forces |
attack | strong criticism, he published an unexpected attack on my work |
surprise attack coup de main | an attack without warning |
terrorist attack | a surprise attack involving the deliberate use of violence against civilians in the hope of attaining political or religious aims |
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 |
attack dog | a watchdog trained to attack on command |
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 |
aircraft carrier carrier flattop attack aircraft carrier | a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings |
airplane aeroplane plane r | an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets, the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane |
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 |
attack submarine | a military submarine designed and armed to attack enemy shipping |
beading plane | a plane with a concave blade for making moulding with beadwork |
block plane | a small plane used on end grains of wood |
bullnose bullnosed plane | a small carpenter's plane with the cutting edge near the front |
chamfer plane | a plane that makes a beveled edge |
circular plane compass plane | a plane with a flexible face that can plane concave or convex surfaces |
combination plane | a woodworking plane that has interchangeable cutters of various shapes |
dado plane | a plane for making a dado groove |
double-prop double-propeller plane twin-prop twin-propeller-plane | a propeller plane with an engine that drives two propellers in opposite directions (for stability) |
dovetail plane | a woodworking plane designed to make the grooves for dovetail joints |
fighter fighter aircraft attack aircraft | a high-speed military or naval airplane designed to destroy enemy aircraft in the air |
flat coat ground primer priming primer coat priming coat undercoat | the first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface |
floatplane pontoon plane | a seaplane equipped with pontoons for landing or taking off from water |
fore plane | a carpenter's plane intermediate between a jack plane and a jointer plane |
ground | (art) the surface (as a wall or canvas) prepared to take the paint for a painting |