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TWL06 (NASPA List 2006)
"Ground" Definition
noun
A surrounding area; a background.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
An area of land designated for a particular purpose. Often used in the plural: a burial ground; parade grounds.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
An area of reference or discussion; a subject: The professor covered new ground in every lecture.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
An area or a position that is contested in or as if in battle: The soldiers held their ground against the enemy. Character witnesses helped the defendant stand her ground in the trial.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
Electricity A conducting object, such as a wire, that is connected to such a position of zero potential.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
verb-transitive
Baseball To hit (a ball) onto the ground.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
Electricity To connect (an electric circuit) to a ground.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
Football To throw (a ball) to the ground in order to stop play and avoid being tackled behind the line of scrimmage.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
Informal To restrict (someone) especially to a certain place as a punishment.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
Nautical To run (a vessel) aground.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
verb-intransitive
Baseball To hit a ground ball: grounded to the second baseman.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
Nautical To run aground.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
To touch or reach the ground.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
idiom
Drive To belabor (an issue or a subject).
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
From the ground up From the most basic level to the highest level; completely: designed the house from the ground up; learned the family business from the ground up.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
Off the ground Under way, as if in flight: Because of legal difficulties, the construction project never got off the ground.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
On the ground At a place that is exciting, interesting, or important.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
To ground Into a den or burrow: a fox going to ground.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
phrasal-verb
Ground out Baseball To be put out by hitting a ground ball that is fielded and thrown to first base.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
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