ground
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Is ground a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (uncountable) Terrain.Examples: "As the terrain-following radar scans the ground ahead of the aircraft the actual clearance height is measured by the radio altimeter."uncountable
2. (countable) The bottom of a body of water.countable
3. (chiefly in the plural) Reason, (epistemic) justification, cause.Examples: "You will need to show good grounds for your action."; "He could not come on grounds of health, or on health grounds."countablein-pluraluncountable
4. (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".countablehistoricaluncountable
5. (figurative, by extension) Advantage given or gained in any contest; e.g. in football, chess, debate or academic discourse.broadlycountablefigurativelyuncountable
6. (in combination) A place suited to a specified activity.Examples: "a forest traditionally used as a hunting-ground"; "I gather from your last answer that at the present time the constabulary, to a certain extent, is good recruiting ground for the army?"countablein-compoundsuncountable
verb (English)
1. (US) To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground.Examples: "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."Synonyms: earthUS
2. (Philippines) To electrocute.Philippines
3. (transitive) To punish, especially a child or teenager, by forcing them to stay at home and/or give up certain privileges.Examples: "If you don't clean your room, I'll have no choice but to ground you."; "Eric, you are grounded until further notice for lying to us about where you were last night!"; "My kids are currently grounded from television."Synonyms: gatetransitive
4. (transitive) To forbid (an aircraft or pilot) to fly.Examples: "Because of the bad weather, all flights were grounded."transitive
5. (cricket) To place a bat or part of the body on the ground to avoid being run out.
6. (baseball) To hit a ground ball. Compare fly (verb (regular)) and line (verb).Examples: "[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."; "The Twins scored three times in the eighth to make it 9-4 and loaded the bases with no outs. Jeurys Familia got Willians Astudillo to ground into a double play, limiting the damage."
Definition source: Wiktionary