English Dictionary

ground

/ɡɹaʊnd/

noun

The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground. / (uncountable) Terrain. / Soil, earth. / (countable) The bottom of a body of water. / Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.

The children played on the ground.

意味（1）

The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.

Look, I found a ten dollar bill on the ground!

意味（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.

意味（3）

Soil, earth.

The worm crawls through the ground.

意味（4）

(countable) The bottom of a body of water.

意味（5）

Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.

Wyth cry unreverent,

Before the sacrament,

Wythin the holy church bowndis,

Wyth cry unreverent, Before the sacrament, Wythin the holy church bowndis, That of our fayth the grownd is.

意味（6）

(chiefly in the plural) Reason, (epistemic) justification, cause.

You will need to show good grounds for your action.

意味（7）

Background, context, framework, surroundings.

意味（8）

(historical) 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".

意味（9）

(figuratively, by extension) Advantage given or gained in any contest; e.g. in football, chess, debate or academic discourse.

意味（10）

The plain surface upon which the figures of an artistic composition are set.

crimson flowers on a white ground

意味（11）

(sculpture) A flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief.

意味（12）

(point lace) The net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied.

Brussels ground

意味（13）

(etching) 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.

意味（14）

(architecture, chiefly in the plural) 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.

意味（15）

(countable) A soccer stadium.

Manchester United's ground is known as Old Trafford.

意味（16）

(electricity, Canada and US) 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.

意味（17）

(countable, cricket) 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).

意味（18）

(music) A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a varying melody.

意味（19）

(music) 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: // Play the maid’s part, ſtill anſwer nay, and take it.

意味（20）

The pit of a theatre.

the understanding gentlemen o' the ground here ask'd my judgment