What's the difference between grounded and ungrounded?

Grounded


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Ground

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.

Ungrounded


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The etching procedures produced well-defined etching patterns on both ground and unground enamel surfaces.
  • (2) Among the etching times used in this study, 90 seconds was an adequate time for etching on the unground primary enamel smooth surfaces polished with a brush cone.
  • (3) The effects of the nine etching procedures on ground and unground enamel surfaces were studied by scanning electron microscopy.
  • (4) An additional consideration is the hazard of shock and burns from contact with ungrounded large metal objects that are charged by RFR fields.
  • (5) Ten percent phosphoric acid in a polymer gel was also evaluated following a 20-second application to ground and unground primary enamel.
  • (6) The contract system of self-accounting relations between the establishments engaged in doctors' training has been introduced, which regulates a number of ungrounded claims for training and increases the responsibility of researchers concerned with training.
  • (7) Because all pacemaker units are not resistant to interference, no ungrounded electrical equipment and no equipment such as microwave diathermy, short wave diathermy, and electrical stimulators should be placed on, or near, a patient with a cardiac pacemaker.
  • (8) The amino acids composition of summary proteins in unground buckwheat of four common and promising varieties grown in the Ukraine was investigated by using ion-exchange chromatography with an automatic analyzor Hd-1200 E. Between individual varieties of buckweheat no essential differences in the amino acids content were in evidence.
  • (9) Morphological verification of growth of the tumor into other organs in 32.3% of patients who had been operated on merely points to the expediency of a combined operation excluding ungrounded refusal of treatment.
  • (10) Unground and polished enamel surfaces were etched with the respective etching solutions and the surfaces examined by scanning electron microscopy.
  • (11) The cooking of unground buckwheat originating from such cereals was attended by further losses of thiamine, within the range of 9.07 up to 14.15 per cent, depending upon the variety of the grain.
  • (12) Measurement of specific surface area for samples previously exposed to various relative humidities revealed no change with unground samples but a significant reduction with ground samples beyond about 20% relative humidity.
  • (13) Sorption isotherms, expressed as the amount sorbed per unit area of solid surface, were different for unground and ground samples.
  • (14) The poor outcomes were due to ungrounded increase of the indications for the performance of TBO.
  • (15) gamma-irradiation with doses of 0, 0.1, 0.25, 0.5, 1, and 2 MGy effected rumen dry matter losses of unground rice hulls from Hungary of 6.4, 14.5, 13.5, 21.3, 37.1, and 70.5%.
  • (16) Unground feedstuffs like cereals and roughage which are conspicuous by high proportions of finer particles and dust have to be estimated as risky environmental factors due to the accumulation of microorganisms (moulds, bacteria and lipopolysaccharides) and mites in the fines frequently.
  • (17) The increase in the rate of the enzymatic hydrolysis was not related to the specific surface area as shown by the fact that the micronized Form A, having a higher specific surface area value than ground Form A, showed the same Khydr as the unground Form A.
  • (18) Contrary to ungrounded fears that Siv applicants could be terrorists – one of the excuses Johnson cited as often delaying the process – the US would receive upstanding new residents.
  • (19) I was very … ungrounded," he says, laughing again.
  • (20) The loss of thiamine was highest in cooking unground buckwheat originating form raw grain, it being within the range of 16.35 up to 19.14 per cent, also depending on the variety of buckwheat.

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