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ground(1) (iou)



ground noun.
[Old English grund = Old Frisian, Old Saxon grund (Dutch grond), Old High German grunt (German Grund), from Germanic. No cognates outside Germanic are known.]
I. The lowest or deepest part.
The bottom or the depths of a hole, a well, or a container of any kind. Long obsolete exc. Scot. OE.
fig.: J. Wesley We praised God from the ground of the heart.
b. Theology. The Godhead as the source of all being. Also, the divine essence of the soul. LME.
The seabed. Now only Nautical. OE.
Shakespeare 1 Henry IV Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground.
b. The bottom of shallow water; the point where a vessel may run aground. Now chiefly in phrs. below. L16.
In pl.
a. Solid particles, now esp. of coffee, forming a residue; dregs, lees, sediment. ME.
b. Refuse; refuse particles or scraps (of meal, wool, etc.). rare. E17.
II. Base, foundation.
The base or (in pl.) foundations of a building or Other structure. OE-E18.
b. The basic constituent or essential part of a substance or object. L16-E18.
The basis or foundation of a system, institution, or state of affairs. Now rare. ME.
b. A fundamental principle; in pl., the elements of a branch of knowledge. M16-M18.
The basis of an opinion or argument, the reason or motive for an action, (now freq. in pl.). In pl. also, sufficient reason or reasons for, that. ME.
K. Clark Have we grounds for thinking that landscape painting will continue to be a dominant form of Art? S. Unwin An action was brought on the ground that the name and occupation were the same. A. J. Ayer Russell's family disapproved of the engagement, partly on social grounds. T. Benn They operate in secrecy on the grounds that secrecy is inseparable from Security.
a. A piece of cloth on which embroidery etc. is worked. In Lace-making, the mesh on which the pattern is constructed. LME.
b. A first coat of paint or colouring serving as a base for further colouring or as background for a design; a part left undecorated; the prevailing colour or tone. LME.
B. Jowett Dyers first prepare the white ground and then lay on the dye of purple. V. Woolf White letters upon a blue ground.
c. Music. The melody on which a descant is raised. L16.
d. Etching. An acid-resistant coating applied to a plate, through which the design is traced with a fine point. E18.
e. A piece of wood embedded in the surface of a wall, to which a skirting-board etc. may be attached. Usu. in pl. E19.
III. The earth, land.
The earth as distinguished from heaven. Chiefly in on ground, on the ground. Now rare exc. as passing into sense 10. OE.
The earth as distinguished from the sea; dry land. OE-L17.
The earth's surface, on which human, animal, and plant life exists; a part of this. In Aeronautics, the earth as distinguished from the air. OE.
E. Crankshaw When the shooting stopped some 200 lay dead on the ground.
b. The pit of a theatre. (Cf. GROUNDLING 2.) L16-E17.
c. The floor. M19.
A. Christie We..forced the door open. Mrs. Allen was lying in a heap on the ground.
(The) soil; earth, mould. OE.
S. Heaney When the spade sinks into gravelly ground.
b. A kind or variety of soil. LME-L18.
c. = EARTH noun1 7. Chiefly N. Amer. L19.
A region, a land, a country. rare. OE-E17.
In pl., a large enclosed area of land surrounding or attached to a house or Other building. Also sing., a piece of (cultivated) land (obsolete exc. dial.). LME.
W. H. Prescott Extensive grounds were also laid out around the palace.
Area or distance (usu. of a specified extent) on the face of the earth; land. LME.
S. Pepys I have a mind to buy enough ground to build a coach-house and stable.
b. fig. Subject matter; object(s) of study or discourse. L18.
The area or piece of land owned or occupied by a particular person. LME.
Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor Like a fair house built on another man's ground.
An area of (specified) extent or character. Now spec. a piece of land or Other area or expanse used for a specific or specified purpose; the place of action of a sporting or Other contest. LME.
cricket ground, fishing-ground, Football ground, parade ground, etc.
E. Blishen We played on a ground lent to us by a local club. New Yorker They fish in deep water, and stay out on the grounds several days at a time.
b. Cricket. The space within which a player is allowed to stand while taking a particular part in the game; esp. that of the batsman behind the popping-crease. L18.
Phrases: above ground (a) alive; (b) dead but not yet buried. below ground dead and buried. bite the ground: see BITE verb. blue ground: see BLUE adjective. break ground, break the ground: see BREAK verb. cover much ground (of an inquiry, report, etc.) be wide-ranging. cover the ground deal adequately with the subject. cut the ground from under a person's feet anticipate and defeat his or her arguments or plans. down to the ground colloq. completely. fall to the ground: see FALL verb. forbidden ground a subject which should be avoided. from the ground up colloq. completely. fruits of the ground: see FRUIT noun 1. gain ground: see GAIN verb2. get ground: see GET verb. get in on the ground floor be admitted to a project, company, etc. as one of the initiators or in the early stages. get off the ground start successfully. give ground recede, retire, retreat. go to ground (of an animal) go into a burrow; (of a person) withdraw from public notice. happy hunting-ground: see HAPPY adjective. have one's ear to the ground: see EAR noun1. have one's feet on the ground: see FOOT noun. hold one's ground hold one's own. into the ground to exhaustion, to a standstill. lose ground fall back, fall behind, decline. middle ground: see MIDDLE adjective. on firm ground, on solid ground using soundly-based reasoning. on one's own ground on one's own territory or subject, on one's own terms; freq. in meet on one's own ground. on the ground on the spot, in practical conditions; (see also sense 8 above). run into the ground: see RUN verb. run to ground = run to earth s.v. EARTH noun1. shift one's ground change one's line of argument. smell the ground (of a ship) steer erratically as a result of being in shallow water. stand one's ground: see STAND verb. take the ground run aground. thick on the ground: see THICK adjective. thin on the ground: see THIN adjective.
Comb.: ground-ash (a stick made from) an ash sapling; ground-bait noun & verb (Angling) (a) noun bait thrown into the water to attract fish; (b) verb trans. prepare (a fishing-ground) with ground-bait. ground ball Sports & Games a ball hit along the ground; ground bass Music a short passage usu. in the bass, constantly repeated with varying melody and harmony; fig. a constant background or undertone; ground-breaking adjective pioneering, innovative; ground-cedar = ground-pine (b) below; ground-cherry (chiefly US) = PHYSALIS; ground-colour (a) the first coat of paint; (b) the prevailing colour of any object; ground control (a) the directing of an aircraft's landing from the ground; (b) the personnel and equipment for monitoring and controlling an aircraft or spacecraft from the ground; ground cover plants covering the surface of the earth; spec. (Horticulture) low, rapidly spreading plants grown to suppress weeds; ground dove a pigeon of terrestrial habits, spec. (in full scaly-breasted ground dove) Columbina passerina of the southern US, Central America, and parts of S. America; ground effect the aerodynamic effect of the ground on a vehicle, aircraft etc. travelling close to it; ground elder an umbelliferous plant, Aegopodium podagraria, troublesome as a Garden weed; also called goutweed; ground-fielding Cricket fielding or stopping a cricket ball near the ground; ground-fish: that lives at the bottom of the water; ground floor the storey of a building approximately level with the ground; ground frost: which forms on the surface of the ground or in the top layer of the soil; ground game ground-dwelling game animals, as rabbits and hares; ground-hemlock a N. American yew, Taxus canadensis, growing as a low straggling shrub; ground-ice: formed below the surface of the water and esp. adhering to the bed of a river, lake, etc.; ground itch the presence of small blisters which itch intensely, usu. on the feet or legs, as a result of the penetration of the skin by hookworm larvae; ground ivy a common early-flowering hedge plant, Glechoma hederacea, with blue-purple flowers in the axils of kidney-shaped leaves; groundkeeper US = groundsman below; ground-landlord the owner of land which is leased for building on; ground-laurel = ARBUTUS 2; ground level (a) the level of the ground, spec. that outside a building; (b) Physics (the energy level of) a ground state; ground loop a violent uncontrolled movement of an aircraft while landing, taking off, or taxiing; groundmass Petrography the compact basic material of a porphyritic rock, in which larger grains (phenocrysts) are embedded; ground moraine: situated underneath a glacier; groundnut (a) (the edible tuber of) a N. American wild bean, Apios americana; (b) (the fruit of) the peanut, Arachis hypogaea; ground parrot a parrot of terrestrial habits; spec. (a) Pezoporus wallicus of the Australian coasts; (b) = KAKAPO; ground-pine (a) a rare yellow-flowered labiate weed, Ajuga chamaepitys, reputedly so called from its resinous smell; (b) N. Amer. any of several clubmosses resembling miniature conifers, esp. Lycopodium obscurum and L. tristachyum; ground-plan a plan of the ground floor of a building; the outline or General plan of anything; ground-plate the lowest horizontal timber in a framing; ground-rent: payable to the owner of the land on which a building stands; ground robin US = TOWHEE; ground roller: see ROLLER noun2; ground rule a fundamental precept, a basic principle; groundsheet a waterproof sheet spread on the ground to give protection from moisture; ground-sill: see GROUNDSEL noun2; ground sloth any of various extinct terrestrial edentates from the Tertiary and Pleistocene of S. America, esp. of the genera Megatherium and Mylodon, and often of very large size; groundsman a person employed to maintain a Sports ground; ground SPEARING; ground speed an aircraft's speed relative to the ground; ground squirrel any of several rodents resembling squirrels in build but of terrestrial habits, esp. a spermophile; ground staff (a) the non-flying members of an airline or airport staff; (b) a paid staff of (now esp. promising young) players kept by a cricket club; ground state Physics the state of lowest energy of an electron, atom, molecule, etc.; ground stroke Tennis a stroke played near the ground after the ball has bounced; ground-swell (a) a large or extensive swell of the sea; (b) an apparently spontaneous movement or build-up of or of feeling, opinion, etc., in a group of people, esp. the public; ground tackle the equipment (cable, anchor, etc.) used to anchor or moor a boat or ship; ground thrush any of various Old World thrushes of the genus Zoothera, most of which are ground-feeders in forests; groundwater water held in the soil or in pores, crevices, etc., in rock, esp. that below the water-table; any underground water; ground wave a Radio wave reaching a receiver directly from the transmitter or by some Other means that does not involve reflection by the ionosphere; ground zero (a) the point at or directly above which a devastating event occurred (orig. spec. a nuclear explosion); (b) US colloq. the (very) beginning, the starting-point.

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