Burying ground
() Alt. of Burying place |
Cologne earth
() An earth of a deep brown color, containing more vegetable than mineral matter |
Earth
(n.) The globe or planet which we inhabit |
Earth
(n.) The solid materials which make up the globe, in distinction from the air or water |
Earth
(n.) The softer inorganic matter composing part of the surface of the globe, in distinction from the firm rock |
Earth
(n.) A part of this globe |
Earth
(n.) Worldly things, as opposed to spiritual things |
Earth
(n.) The people on the globe. |
Earth
(n.) Any earthy-looking metallic oxide, as alumina, glucina, zirconia, yttria, and thoria. |
Earth
(n.) A similar oxide, having a slight alkaline reaction, as lime, magnesia, strontia, baryta. |
Earth
(n.) A hole in the ground, where an animal hides himself |
Earthed
(imp. & p. p.) of Earth |
Earthing
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Earth |
Earth
(v. t.) To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth |
Earth
(v. t.) To cover with earth or mold |
Earth
(v. i.) To burrow. |
Earth
(n.) A plowing. |
Earth flax
() A variety of asbestus. See Amianthus. |
Earth shine
() See Earth light, under Earth. |
Earth-tongue
(n.) A fungus of the genus Geoglossum. |
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. |
Grounded
(imp. & p. p.) of Ground |
Grounding
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ground |
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. |
Grounding
(n.) The act, method, or process of laying a groundwork or foundation |
Middle-earth
(n.) The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. |
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 |
grounding
earthing | fastening electrical equipment to earth |
| scorched-earth policy | the target company defends itself by selling off its crown jewels |
| 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 |
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 |
| 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 |
worldly concern
earthly concern
world earth | the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife, they consider the church to be independent of the world |
| 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 |
| foundation grounding | education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge, he lacks the foundation necessary for advanced study, a good grounding in mathematics |
| earth science | any of the sciences that deal with the earth or its parts |
| 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 |
ground swell
heavy swell | a broad and deep undulation of the ocean |
| ground swell | an obvious change of public opinion or political sentiment that occurs without leadership or overt expression, there was a ground swell of antiwar sentiment |
tremor
earth tremor
microseism | a small earthquake |
background noise
ground noise | extraneous noise contaminating sound measurements that cannot be separated from the desired signal |