(n.) The surface of the earth; the outer crust of the globe, or some indefinite portion of it.
(n.) A floor or pavement supposed to rest upon the earth.
(n.) Any definite portion of the earth's surface; region; territory; country. Hence: A territory appropriated to, or resorted to, for a particular purpose; the field or place of action; as, a hunting or fishing ground; a play ground.
(n.) Land; estate; possession; field; esp. (pl.), the gardens, lawns, fields, etc., belonging to a homestead; as, the grounds of the estate are well kept.
(n.) The basis on which anything rests; foundation. Hence: The foundation of knowledge, belief, or conviction; a premise, reason, or datum; ultimate or first principle; cause of existence or occurrence; originating force or agency; as, the ground of my hope.
(n.) That surface upon which the figures of a composition are set, and which relieves them by its plainness, being either of one tint or of tints but slightly contrasted with one another; as, crimson Bowers on a white ground.
(n.) In sculpture, a flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief.
(n.) In point lace, the net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied; as, Brussels ground. See Brussels lace, under Brussels.
(n.) A gummy composition 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.
(n.) One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which moldings, etc., are attached; -- usually in the plural.
(n.) A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a varying melody.
(n.) The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.
(n.) A conducting connection with the earth, whereby the earth is made part of an electrical circuit.
(n.) Sediment at the bottom of liquors or liquids; dregs; lees; feces; as, coffee grounds.
(n.) The pit of a theater.
(v. t.) To lay, set, or run, on the ground.
(v. t.) To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly.
(v. t.) To instruct in elements or first principles.
(v. t.) To connect with the ground so as to make the earth a part of an electrical circuit.
(v. t.) To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching (see Ground, n., 5); or as paper or other materials with a uniform tint as a preparation for ornament.
(v. i.) To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed; as, the ship grounded on the bar.
() imp. & p. p. of Grind.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hoursoglou thinks a shortage of skilled people with a good grounding in core subjects such as maths and science is a potential problem for all manufacturers.
(2) The manufacturers, British Aerospace describe it as a "single-seat, radar equipped, lightweight, multi-role combat aircraft, providing comprehensive air defence and ground attack capability".
(3) The hospital whose A&E unit has been threatened with closure on safety grounds has admitted that four patients died after errors by staff in the emergency department and other areas.
(4) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
(5) For this to work, its leaders had to be able to at least influence the behaviour and tactics of the militant operators on the ground.
(6) One thousand nineteen Wyoming ground squirrels (Spermophilus elegans elegans) from 4 populations in southern Wyoming were examined for intestinal parasites.
(7) Unlike most birds of prey, which are territorial and fight each other over nesting and hunting grounds, the hen harrier nests close to other harriers.
(8) I had loan sharks turning up at the training ground when I was at Ipswich [2011-13].
(9) This week, Umande broke ground on the first of a series of toilet block biocentres in a slum in Kisumu, near Lake Victoria.
(10) But in a setback to the UK, Somaliland, which broke away from Somalia in 1991, refused British entreaties to attend on the grounds that it would not have been treated as equal to the Somali government.
(11) On land, the pits' stagnant pools of water become breeding grounds for dengue fever and malaria.
(12) We conclude that the concept of the limbic system cannot be accepted on empirical grounds.
(13) On the grounds of the reported paediatric cases, the erudition in childhood is compared with the more common form in the adult, and is found to be much less linked with diabetes mellitus and to have a far better prognosis, with practically no mortality.
(14) It seems like an awfully long way from the ground.” He added: “When I was younger, I dreamed of being an astronaut, but I also wanted to be a policeman or a firebreather.
(15) We come to see that some traditions keep us grounded, but that, in our modern world, other traditions set us back.” Female genital mutilation (FGM) affects more than 130 million girls and women around the world.
(16) Differentiation on histopathological grounds between this tumour and the more common juvenile melanoma may be difficult, but this important distinction should be possible in almost all cases.
(17) For Burroughs, who had been publishing ground-breaking books for 20 years without much appreciable financial return, it was association with fame and the music industry, as well as the possible benefits: a wider readership, film hook-ups and more money.
(18) United and West Ham are on similar runs and can feel pretty happy about themselves but are not as confident away from home as they are at home and that will have to change if they are to make ground on the top teams.
(19) But today, Americans increasingly no longer shy away from saying they oppose mosques on the grounds that Muslims are a threat or different.
(20) One of the reasons for doing this study is to give a voice to women trapped in this epidemic,” said Dr Catherine Aiken, academic clinical lecturer in the department of obstetrics and gynaecology of the University of Cambridge, “and to bring to light that with all the virology, the vaccination and containment strategy and all the great things that people are doing, there is no voice for those women on the ground.” In a supplement to the study, the researchers have published some of the emails to Women on Web which reveal their fears.
Hunker
Definition:
(n.) Originally, a nickname for a member of the conservative section of the Democratic party in New York; hence, one opposed to progress in general; a fogy.
Example Sentences:
(1) They advised people living near the beach to retreat upstairs and hunker down in rooms away from the sea.
(2) She hunkered; she wouldn't ask him to turn up the heating.
(3) "It's all too easy to hunker down and try to ride out the storm but I think for our business that would be a mistake," Darroch said, referring to Sky's HD push.
(4) He would spend days and nights hunkered down in his small uptown Dallas apartment pouring through troves of hacked documents, writing blog posts about US government intelligence contractors and their "misplaced power" while working to garner wider media coverage.
(5) I grit my teeth as the trees hunker down smaller and smaller, then finally give up entirely, leaving us alone in a barren upland area where there is one large grey house partially obscured by torn curtains of freezing rain.
(6) On Wednesday, his father Ray told the Guardian: “CCHQ’s supposedly impartial investigation, conducted not by an independent person but by a party ‘insider’, was always going to cast Clarke adrift and having done this was going to slam the doors of CCHQ shut and hunker down in an attempt to weather the storm.
(7) The success of the operation to remove melted nuclear fuel from the reactors – a process that will not start for 10 years – will depend on the hundreds of Tepco staff hunkered over computer screens in the plant's emergency control room.
(8) There is no comment on current trading, but it is clear that the carpet market is "challenging" and the suspicion remains that Carpetright's market share is under pressure, so the business is hunkering down for another tough year, with cost cutting and store closures in the pipeline.
(9) 12.06pm BST The Institute of Directors doesn't like the sound of British politicians blocking takeovers 'in the national interest'... Jess Brammar (@jessbrammar) IoD: "misleading to present AstraZeneca as kind of UK champion...IoD doesn't support extension of any national interest test for takeovers" May 2, 2014 11.45am BST Pfizer and AstraZeneca will hunker down for a long tussle, predicts Mick Cooper, analyst at Edison Investment Research.
(10) With the eurogroup due to meet again next Monday, the financial markets are hunkering down for another delay - but still hopeful that a deal will eventually be agreed.
(11) Hardly anyone, that is, save their quarry: Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán and his lieutenants, hunkered down in a white house just off the corner of Jiquilpan Boulevard, sensed a trap was about to spring shut.
(12) Arrive early or midweek, to hunker down by the fire and drink in these wood-panelled rooms.
(13) The consequences of hunkering down and seeing this as an individual problem will be that it simply worsens and affects more individuals; before innovation, it will take collectivism – medical, political and social.
(14) You saw David Attenborough , hunkered down on an ice floe somewhere near Svalbard, an archipelago in the Arctic.
(15) "Where communities are already divided along ethnic lines, there is of course a tendency to hunker down," says Rob Berkeley, director of the Runnymede Trust, which researches issues of race and equality.
(16) As long as I've got somewhere to hunker down then I'm OK." The appeal of the house in the country, she says, is that "I can hide there."
(17) As the three party leaders hunkered down for final preparations ahead of the Sky News debate in Bristol, Lib Dem nerves were frayed when Vince Cable , the party's highly regarded Treasury spokesman, was put on the back foot for possibly the first time during a chancellors' debate on the BBC.
(18) This is an outbreak that needs tackling at source, and to change the course of the crisis, we mustn’t simply hunker down in developed nations.
(19) All its people can do when evening falls is to close the windows and hunker down around candles.
(20) They while away the day munching snacks, checking phones, posing artfully with cigarettes or hunkering down on folding stools.