The bottom of a body of water, such as an ocean, sea, lake, or river.
Marriage.
The taut surface of a trampoline.
Any of the sections of a dartboard with a point value, delimited by a wire.
The time for going to sleep or resting in bed; bedtime.
The smallest division of a geologic formation or stratigraphic rock series marked by well-defined divisional planes (bedding planes) separating it from layers above and below.
Sleep; rest; getting to sleep.
Sexual activity.
A garden plot.
A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
A piece of music, normally instrumental, over which a radio DJ talks.
The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.
An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, other sessile shellfish, or a large amount of seaweed is found.
A foundation or supporting surface formed of a fluid.
The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
A course of stone or brick in a wall.
Time spent in a bed.
A deposit of ore, coal, etc.
A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.
A prepared spot in which to spend the night.
The flat surface of a scanner on which a document is placed to be scanned.
The horizontal surface of a building stone.
The platform of a truck, trailer, railcar, or other vehicle that supports the load to be hauled.
One's place of sleep or rest.
A shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship’s floor; a pallet.
To settle, as machinery.
To go to bed.
To have sexual intercourse with.
To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed.
To furnish with a bed or bedding.
To set out (plants) in a garden bed.
To place in a bed.
To dress or prepare the surface of (stone) so it can serve as a bed.
To put oneself to sleep.
To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement.
The bottom of a body of water.
Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.
Terrain.
The pit of a theatre.
A soccer stadium.
Reason, (epistemic) justification, cause.
The plain surface upon which the figures of an artistic composition are set.
A flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief.
An electrical conductor connected to the earth, or a large conductor whose electrical potential is taken as zero (such as a steel chassis).
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".
The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.
One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which mouldings etc. are attached.
Background, context, framework, surroundings.
The net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied.
A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a varying melody.
Advantage given or gained in any contest; e.g. in football, chess, debate or academic discourse.
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).
The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.
Soil, earth.
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.
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.
To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground.
To forbid (an aircraft or pilot) to fly.
To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly.
To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed.
To place something on the ground.
To hit a ground ball. Compare fly (verb (regular)) and line (verb).
To improve or focus the mental or emotional state of.
To punish, especially a child or teenager, by forcing them to stay at home and/or give up certain privileges.
To give a basic education in a particular subject; to instruct in elements or first principles.
Crushed, or reduced to small particles.
Processed by grinding.