To improve or focus the mental or emotional state of.
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 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.
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.
The bottom of a body of water.
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 become active, effective or operational, especially in response to an external or internal stimulus.
To leave one's bed; to get up.
To attain a higher status.
To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn.
To have its source (in a particular place).
Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase.
To develop.
To become erect; to assume an upright position.
To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse.
To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch.
To be resurrected.
To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light.
To slope upward.
To become perceptible to the senses, other than sight.
To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
To go up; to ascend; to climb.
To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation.
To come; to offer itself.
To move upwards.
To grow upward; to attain a certain height.
To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
To cause to go up or ascend.
An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.
The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
A very noticeable visible or audible reaction of a person or group.
The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
An increase in a quantity, price, etc.
The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
The height of an arch or a step.