ground

noun grounds · GND

1. countable, uncountable The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground. Look, I found a ten dollar bill on the ground!
2. uncountable Terrain. As the terrain-following radar scans the ground ahead of the aircraft the actual clearance height is measured by the radio altimeter.
3. countable, uncountable Soil, earth. The worm crawls through the ground.
4. countable The bottom of a body of water.
5. countable, uncountable Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork. Wyth cry unreverent, Before the sacrament, Wythin the holy church bowndis, That of our fayth the grownd is.
6. countable, in plural, uncountable Reason, (epistemic) justification, cause. You will need to show good grounds for your action.
7. countable, uncountable Background, context, framework, surroundings.
8. countable, historical, uncountable The area on which a battle is fought, particularly as referring to the area occupied by one side or the other. Often, according to the eventualities, "to give ground" or "to gain ground".
9. broadly, countable, figuratively, uncountable Advantage given or gained in any contest; e.g. in football, chess, debate or academic discourse.
10. countable, in compounds, uncountable A place suited to a specified activity. a forest traditionally used as a hunting-ground
11. countable, uncountable The plain surface upon which the figures of an artistic composition are set. crimson flowers on a white ground
12. countable, uncountable A flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief.
13. countable, uncountable The net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied. Brussels ground
14. countable, uncountable A gummy substance 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.
15. countable, in plural, uncountable One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which mouldings etc. are attached. Grounds are usually put up first and the plastering floated flush with them.
16. UK, countable A soccer stadium. Manchester United's ground is known as Old Trafford.
17. countable, uncountable An electrical conductor connected to the earth, or a large conductor whose electrical potential is taken as zero (such as a steel chassis). А ground may be undesirable, inadvertent, or accidental path taken by an electrical current; or it may be the deliberate provision of conductors well connected to the ground by means of plates buried therein, or similar device.
18. Philippines, countable, uncountable Electric shock.
19. countable The area of grass on which a match is played (a cricket field); the entire arena in which it is played; the part of the field behind a batsman's popping crease where he can not be run out (hence to make one's ground).
20. countable, uncountable A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a varying melody.
21. countable, uncountable The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song. Buck[ingham] The Mayor is here at hand; pretend ſome fear, // Be not you ſpoke with, but by mighty ſuit; // And look you get a prayer-book in your hand, // And ſtand between two churchmen, good my lord, // For on that ground I’ll build a holy deſcant: // And be not eaſily won to our requeſts: // Pla
22. countable, uncountable The pit of a theatre. the understanding gentlemen o' the ground here ask'd my judgment
23. India, countable, obsolete, uncountable Synonym of munny (“land measure”). It is sub-divided into annas (or 16ths), of 3,600 square feet each; or when the land is for building purposes, into grounds (munnies) of 1/24 of a cawny each, as in the town of Madras.

Similar: earth

verb grounds · grounding · grounded · GND

1. US, transitive To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground. These geomagnetically induced currents (GICs) can become a hazard when they flow through conducting infrastructure, usually entering and exiting networks where equipment is grounded to Earth.
2. Philippines, transitive To electrocute.
3. transitive To punish, especially a child or teenager, by forcing them to stay at home and/or give up certain privileges. If you don't clean your room, I'll have no choice but to ground you.
4. transitive To forbid (an aircraft or pilot) to fly. Because of the bad weather, all flights were grounded.
5. transitive To give a basic education in a particular subject; to instruct in elements or first principles. Jim was grounded in maths.
6. To place a bat or part of the body on the ground to avoid being run out.
7. To hit a ground ball. Compare fly (verb (regular)) and line (verb). [Ichiro Suzuki] went 0 for 4, popping out in foul territory, grounding out to second, and striking out looking. And then, in the top of the eighth inning with a runner on second, the “True Hit King” grounded out to short, just barely failing to beat it out.
8. transitive To place something on the ground.
9. intransitive To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed. The ship grounded on the bar.
10. To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly. being rooted and grounded in love
11. To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching, or as paper or other materials with a uniform tint as a preparation for ornament.
12. transitive To improve or focus the mental or emotional state of. I ground myself with meditation.
13. transitive To complement a machine learning model with relevant information it was not trained on. We design WikiChat (Figure 1) to ground LLMs using Wikipedia to achieve the following objectives. While LLMs tend to hallucinate, our chatbot should be factual.

verb

1. participle, past simple past and past participle of grind I ground the coffee up nicely.

adjective

1. not comparable Crushed, or reduced to small particles. ground mustard seed
2. not comparable Processed by grinding. lenses of ground glass