(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.
Sleet
Definition:
(n.) The part of a mortar extending from the chamber to the trunnions.
(n.) Hail or snow, mingled with rain, usually falling, or driven by the wind, in fine particles.
(v. i.) To snow or hail with a mixture of rain.
Example Sentences:
(1) The beach curved around us and the sun shone while the rest of the UK shivered under grey skies and sleet.
(2) These showers do look like becoming hail and sleet showers in places, with snow in the mountains.” The Met Office has a yellow ice warning in place for Scotland and Northern Ireland for Friday morning.
(3) The Met Office issued a severe weather warning overnight when rain turned into sleet and snow as it moved eastwards.
(4) The storm dropped more than 10 inches of snow on parts of south-west Oklahoma overnight, and a winter weather advisory remained in place for much of the south-east of the state with freezing rain and sleet in the cards.
(5) Five years ago, as Branson was declaring SpaceShipTwo to be “the sexiest spaceship ever” at an unveiling at the Mojave air and space port, howling winds, sleet and near-freezing temperatures reduced the invited glitterati – politicians, actors, glamour women and some of the world’s top aerospace engineers – to human icicles.
(6) The combination of downpours in the south and snow and sleet in the north has left some forecasters predicting the coldest start to May for 70 years.
(7) The rain, sleet and snow will be replaced by dry and frosty weather overnight with black ice expected to be an additional hazard in many areas.
(8) The gale-force winds, snow, sleet and rain that battered parts of Britain and left around 10,000 homes across the north-east of England without power are set to continue on Wednesday.
(9) Between six inches and a foot (15-30 cm) of snow was predicted from Chicago to Detroit, AccuWeather said, while icy sleet and rain was forecast for much of the north-east, where a brief thaw was forecast before intense cold returned late Monday.
(10) A powerful storm system that spread hazardous snow, sleet and freezing rain widely across the midsection of the US rumbled towards the densely populated eastern seaboard on Sunday, promising more of the same.
(11) Outside a slate-grey sky is pondering whether to dispense driving sleet or merely torrential rain.
(12) Photograph: Brynjar Gunnarsson for the Guardian At the Alvogenvollurinn stadium, home of KR Reykjavik, the sleet comes barrelling in sideways from the open side of the ground.
(13) Power outages were reported in Virginia, parts of West Virginia, Maryland and the metropolitan Washington, DC, area following freezing rain, wet snow and sleet.
(14) Parts of northwest and southwest Virginia and southern West Virginia got snow, while sleet and freezing rain prevailed west and north of Richmond.
(15) "Some central and northern parts of the UK may remain generally dry, before the unsettled weather with rain, sleet or snow is expected to move across the north and perhaps the east of the country later next week and probably into the following week."
(16) The area of rain, sleet and snow will clear from the north during the day."
(17) Aisling Creevy, forecaster with MeteoGroup , said: "There is currently a band of rain sleet and snow across northern Wales, the north-west Midlands and northern England which will generally move southwards throughout the day leaving very cold and icy conditions behind it.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest It’s cold, it’s snowing – or is that sleet?
(19) Aisling Creevy, a forecaster with MeteoGroup, the weather division of the Press Association, said a slow-moving band of rain, sleet and snow would continue to cause problems on higher ground as it moved south.
(20) Sleet and snow are expected to hit large swathes of Britain, with colder conditions going into Monday.