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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



... a frisky matron whom he had known from childhood. Mrs. Manderson, it appeared, on her return from Italy, had somehow wandered into circles to which he belonged by nurture and disposition. It came, she said, of her having pitched her tent in their hunting-grounds; several of his friends ...
— The Woman in Black • Edmund Clerihew Bentley
... was about to step into the carriage when a servant came hurrying up to ask directions in regard to some work to be done in the grounds. ...
— Elsie's Vacation and After Events • Martha Finley
... like the potato, is subject to disease. Being covered with scarlet flowers these gardens had a fine effect on the landscape when seen from the heights behind the village. Passing through the coffee grounds the party was soon in the tangled thickets of underwood through which many narrow ...
— Blown to Bits - or, The Lonely Man of Rakata • Robert Michael Ballantyne
... would remain, notwithstanding all ulterior transformations, an indelible principle and an immortal cause. The formidable, provisional vegetations of the primary epoch, the chaotic and immature monsters of the secondary grounds—Plesiosaurus, Ichthyosaurus, Pterodactyl—these might also regard themselves as vain and ephemeral attempts, ridiculous experiments of a still puerile nature, and conceive that they would leave ...
— The Buried Temple • Maurice Maeterlinck
... this document were leniently dealt with; but those among them who afterwards took a prominent part in politics, were not permitted to forget their error. Elgin was of opinion that there was ground for discontent on commercial grounds, and he advocated the removal of imperial restriction on navigation, and the establishment of reciprocity between the United States and the British North American provinces. The annexation movement was confined chiefly to Montreal. In ...
— George Brown • John Lewis


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