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Grounds   /graʊndz/  /graʊnz/   Listen
Grounds

noun
1.
Your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief.  Synonym: evidence.
2.
The enclosed land around a house or other building.  Synonyms: curtilage, yard.
3.
A tract of land cleared for some special purposes (recreation or burial etc.).
4.
A justification for something existing or happening.  Synonyms: cause, reason.  "They had good reason to rejoice"
5.
Dregs consisting of solid particles (especially of coffee) that form a residue.


Ground

noun
1.
The solid part of the earth's surface.  Synonyms: dry land, earth, land, solid ground, terra firma.  "The earth shook for several minutes" , "He dropped the logs on the ground"
2.
A rational motive for a belief or action.  Synonym: reason.  "The grounds for their declaration"
3.
The loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface.  Synonym: earth.
4.
A relation that provides the foundation for something.  Synonyms: basis, footing.  "He worked on an interim basis"
5.
A position to be won or defended in battle (or as if in battle).  "They fought to regain the lost ground"
6.
The part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground.  Synonym: background.
7.
Material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use).  Synonyms: land, soil.  "Good agricultural soil"
8.
A relatively homogeneous percept extending back of the figure on which attention is focused.
9.
A connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage).  Synonym: earth.
10.
(art) the surface (as a wall or canvas) prepared to take the paint for a painting.
11.
The first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface.  Synonyms: flat coat, primer, primer coat, priming, priming coat, undercoat.
verb
(past & past part. grounded; pres. part. grounding)
1.
Fix firmly and stably.  Synonym: anchor.
2.
Confine or restrict to the ground.
3.
Place or put on the ground.
4.
Instruct someone in the fundamentals of a subject.
5.
Bring to the ground.  Synonyms: run aground, strand.
6.
Hit or reach the ground.  Synonym: run aground.
7.
Throw to the ground in order to stop play and avoid being tackled behind the line of scrimmage.
8.
Hit a groundball.
9.
Hit onto the ground.
10.
Cover with a primer; apply a primer to.  Synonyms: prime, undercoat.
11.
Connect to a ground.
12.
Use as a basis for; found on.  Synonyms: base, establish, found.



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"Grounds" Quotes from Famous Books



... of them died. One farmer in a neighboring district had nineteen head of cattle, all of which sickened, but only three were lost. These were unusually hot summers. The upland pasture was burnt up, or what remained of it was rendered unusually stimulating; and the acrid plants of the marshes and low grounds acquired ...
— Cattle and Their Diseases • Robert Jennings
... distance, without being observed, to the house where they lived. A week passed without his seeing the pretty Angelica again, or without her giving him any sign of life. The waiter in the Horticultural Society's grounds, whom he asked about them, could tell him nothing more than that they were people of position, and a few days later the cadet saw them all again at a concert, but he was satisfied with looking at his ...
— The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume IV (of 8) • Guy de Maupassant
... corridors, on the playground. It manifests itself in the method of preparing and conducting recitations; in the care of school property; in protecting the rights of younger children; in maintaining the sanitary conditions of the building and grounds; in the elimination of cases of "discipline" and of irregularity of attendance; in the preparation and conduct of opening exercises, school entertainments, and graduating exercises; in beautifying the school grounds; in the making of repairs and equipment for "our school"; ...
— Community Civics and Rural Life • Arthur W. Dunn
... The grounds for supposing that this man was in any way connected with the angler were, perhaps, very slight; yet, in the perplexity of the whole affair, they induced Edward to resolve to get at the heart of his mystery. To attain this end, ...
— Fanshawe • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... one lives apart in his own narrow corner, with his own opinions; his wife and children round him; ever suspicious of the Government, as of his neighbor; judging everything from his personal point of view, and never from general grounds." ...
— Blood and Iron - Origin of German Empire As Revealed by Character of Its - Founder, Bismarck • John Hubert Greusel


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