ground

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ɡɹaʊnd/    美 /ɡɹaʊnd/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground. countable,uncountable
    — Look, I found a ten dollar bill on the ground!
  2. Terrain. uncountable
    — As the terrain-following radar scans the ground ahead of the aircraft the actual clearance height is measured by the radio altimeter.
  3. Soil, earth. countable,uncountable
    — The worm crawls through the ground.
  4. The bottom of a body of water. countable
  5. Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork. countable,uncountable
    — Wyth cry unreverent, Before the sacrament, Wythin the holy church bowndis, That of our fayth the grownd is.
  6. Reason, (epistemic) justification, cause. countable,in-plural,uncountable
    — You will need to show good grounds for your action.
  7. Background, context, framework, surroundings. countable,uncountable
  8. 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". countable,historical,uncountable
  9. Advantage given or gained in any contest; e.g. in football, chess, debate or academic discourse. broadly,countable,figuratively,uncountable
  10. A place suited to a specified activity. countable,in-compounds,uncountable
    — a forest traditionally used as a hunting-ground
  11. The plain surface upon which the figures of an artistic composition are set. countable,uncountable
    — crimson flowers on a white ground
  12. A flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief. countable,uncountable
  13. The net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied. countable,uncountable
    — Brussels ground
  14. 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. countable,uncountable
  15. One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which mouldings etc. are attached. countable,in-plural,uncountable
    — Grounds are usually put up first and the plastering floated flush with them.
  16. A soccer stadium. UK,countable
    — Manchester United's ground is known as Old Trafford.
  17. An electrical conductor connected to the earth, or a large conductor whose electrical potential is taken as zero (such as a steel chassis). countable,uncountable
    — 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.
  18. Electric shock. Philippines,countable,uncountable
  19. 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). countable
  20. A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a varying melody. countable,uncountable
  21. The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song. countable,uncountable
    — 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.
  22. The pit of a theatre. countable,uncountable
    — the understanding gentlemen o' the ground here ask'd my judgment
  23. Synonym of munny (“land measure”). India,countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — It is sub-divided into annas (or 16ths), of 3,600 square feet each; or when the land is for building purposes, into grounds (munnies) of 1/24 of a cawny each, as in the town of Madras.
动词 v.
  1. To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground. US,transitive
    — These geomagnetically induced currents (GICs) can become a hazard when they flow through conducting infrastructure, usually entering and exiting networks where equipment is grounded to Earth.
  2. simple past and past participle of grind form-of,participle,past
    — I ground the coffee up nicely.
  3. To electrocute. Philippines,transitive
  4. To punish, especially a child or teenager, by forcing them to stay at home and/or give up certain privileges. transitive
    — If you don't clean your room, I'll have no choice but to ground you.
  5. To forbid (an aircraft or pilot) to fly. transitive
    — Because of the bad weather, all flights were grounded.
  6. To give a basic education in a particular subject; to instruct in elements or first principles. transitive
    — Jim was grounded in maths.
  7. To place a bat or part of the body on the ground to avoid being run out.
  8. To hit a ground ball. Compare fly (verb (regular)) and line (verb).
    — [Ichiro Suzuki] went 0 for 4, popping out in foul territory, grounding out to second, and striking out looking. And then, in the top of the eighth inning with a runner on second, the “True Hit King” grounded out to short, just barely failing to beat it out.
  9. To place something on the ground. transitive
  10. To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed. intransitive
    — The ship grounded on the bar.
  11. To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly.
    — being rooted and grounded in love
  12. To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching, or as paper or other materials with a uniform tint as a preparation for ornament.
  13. To improve or focus the mental or emotional state of. transitive
    — I ground myself with meditation.
  14. To complement a machine learning model with relevant information it was not trained on. transitive
    — We design WikiChat (Figure 1) to ground LLMs using Wikipedia to achieve the following objectives. While LLMs tend to hallucinate, our chatbot should be factual.
形容词 adj.
  1. Crushed, or reduced to small particles. not-comparable
    — ground mustard seed
  2. Processed by grinding. not-comparable
    — lenses of ground glass

词形变化

grounds plural GND alternative grounds present,singular,third-person grounding participle,present grounded participle,past grounded past GND alternative

词汇关系

近义词
earth
下位词
break ground breeding ground burial ground campground camping ground common ground cricket ground cumber ground fairground gain ground give ground high ground home ground lose ground middle ground moral high ground neutral ground parade ground picnic ground pleasure ground proving ground school ground shooting ground showground singing ground solid ground sports ground stamping ground stomping ground teeing ground testing ground training ground vantage ground
衍生词
above ground aboveground above-ground absorbent ground aground air-to-ground archery ground background barren-ground caribou Battle Ground battleground bedground belowground best on ground bootleg ground boots on the ground bora ground break new ground Brehm's ground parrot bring to ground Brussels ground Brussels wire ground burying ground byground centerground centreground clear the ground cloud-to-ground cover ground cumberground cumber-ground cumber ground cut the ground from under someone's feet dead ground drill ground drive into the ground drive something into the ground dumping ground ear to the ground eyeground eyes on the ground facts on the ground fall on stony ground fall to the ground feet on the ground figure and ground fireground fishing ground floating ground foreground the ground up gain-ground get off the ground gill-go-by-the-ground gill-over-the-ground go to ground ground agama groundage ground and pound ground angling ground babbler ground bailiff groundbait ground ball ground bar ground bass ground beetle ground berry ground blizzard ground breaker groundbreaker ground-breaking groundbreaking groundburst ground cable ground cedar groundcherry ground cherry ground-chestnut ground clearance groundcloth ground cloth ground clutter ground control ground control point ground cover ground crew groundcrew ground cruncher ground cuckoo ground cypress ground dove ground effect ground elder grounder ground failure ground fault ground finch ground fir groundfire ground fire ground fish groundfish ground floor ground-floor ground fog ground food ground forces ground frame ground frost ground game ground-glass ground handling ground hemlock ground hog groundhog ground-hog groundhopper groundhopping ground hornbill ground ice ground itch ground ivy ground-ivy ground lamella ground laurel groundlaying groundless ground level groundline groundling ground loop groundlubber groundly ground-man ground man groundmass ground meristem groundmist ground mist ground-mist ground moraine ground noise groundnut ground out ground pangolin ground pea ground pear groundpecker groundpig ground pine groundplan ground plane ground plan ground-plan ground plate ground plum ground pounder ground power ground provisions ground proximity warning system ground rattlesnake ground rent ground robin ground roller ground row groundrow ground rule ground-rule ground score groundscraper groundsel ground sense ground set ground-shaker groundshare ground shark groundsheet groundside ground signal groundsill ground sloth groundsman ground snake ground speed groundspeed ground spider ground squirrel ground staff groundstaff ground state ground station groundstone ground stop groundstroke ground-stroke ground stroke ground substance groundswell ground swell ground tackle ground tissue ground-to-air ground-to-ground ground-to-ship ground troops ground truth ground truthing ground tyrant groundwall ground wallah groundward groundwards groundwater ground water ground wave groundwave ground wire groundwood groundworker ground-work groundwork groundworm groundy ground-zero ground zero happy hunting ground hardground hit the ground running hold one's ground honeycomb ground hunting ground in the ground kiss the ground someone walks on know one's ass from a hole in the ground know one's head from a hole in the ground know someone from a hole in the ground know the difference between one's ass and a hole in the ground level to the ground lost ground make ground microground middle-ground midground moral low ground native ground nesting ground nonground nuisance ground off the ground on familiar ground on one's own ground on shaky ground on solid ground on the ground open ground out ground outground overground playground prepare the ground put facts on the ground put in the ground recreation ground rooted to the ground ruddy ground dove rufous-vented ground-cuckoo run into the ground run to ground run to the ground Saint Croix ground lizard sandgrounder schoolground sea-ground shift ground shift one's ground ship-to-ground Skinner's ground mantis soften the ground soften up the ground spawning ground sportsground standing ground stand one's ground stand-your-ground law suit down to the ground tactile ground surface indicator tenterground thick on the ground thin on the ground Tom Tidler's ground Tommy Tiddler's ground underground urgrund wasteground work into the ground worship the ground someone walks on English terms starting with grounation groundable groundation reground misground unground ground beef ground glass ground meat ground pepper preground stoneground
相关词
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词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem-der.
Proto-Germanic *grunduz
Old English grund
Middle English ground
English ground
From Middle English ground, from Old English grund, from Proto-West Germanic *grundu, from Proto-Germanic *grunduz. Cognate with West Frisian grûn, Dutch grond and German Grund.
(to punish): Compare (to bring) down to earth, to come down to earth.
词源 2
Inflected form of grind. See also milled.
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