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Meaning:
Adjective:
- Crushed, or reduced to small particles.
- Processed by grinding.
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Noun:
- Background, context, framework, surroundings.
- Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.
- countable A soccer stadium.
- countable cricket The area of grass on which a match is played (a cricket field); the entire arena in which it is played; that part of the field behind a batsman's popping crease where he can not be run out (hence to ''make one's ground'')
- countable The bottom of a body of water.
- uncountable Soil, earth.
- uncountable Terrain.
- uncountable The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.
- US A level of electrical potential used as a zero reference.
- US An electrical conductor connected to the ground.
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Verb:
- baseball to hit a ground ball; to hit a ground ball which results in an out. Compare fly (verb(regular)) and line (verb).
- cricket (of a batsman) to place his bat, or part of his body, on the ground behind the popping crease so as not to be run out
- grind
- To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground.
- To gain a basic education (of a particular subject).
- transitive To forbid (an aircraft or pilot) to fly.
- transitive To require a disobedient child to remain at home or refrain from other privileges such as uses of the Internet, phone, TV, or music, usually as a punishment.
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