Grounds can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| ground - hit onto the ground | ||
| ground - connect to a ground; "ground the electrical connections for safety reasons" | ||
| ground - hit a groundball; "he grounded to the second baseman" | ||
| ground - throw to the ground in order to stop play and avoid being tackled behind the line of scrimmage | ||
| ground - bring to the ground; "the storm grounded the ship" | ||
| ground - place or put on the ground | ||
| ground - confine or restrict to the ground; "After the accident, they grounded the plane and the pilot" | ||
| ground - hit or reach the ground | ||
| ground - instruct someone in the fundamentals of a subject | ||
| ground - use as a basis for; found on; "base a claim on some observation" | ||
| ground - cover with a primer; apply a primer to | ||
| ground - fix firmly and stably; "anchor the lamppost in concrete" | ||
Noun |
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| grounds - dregs consisting of solid particles (especially of coffee) that form a residue; "it is a Middle Eastern custom to read your future in your coffee grounds" | ||
| grounds - a tract of land cleared for some special purposes (recreation or burial etc.) | ||
| grounds - your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief; "the evidence that smoking causes lung cancer is very compelling" | ||
| grounds - the enclosed land around a house or other building; "it was a small house with almost no yard" | ||
| grounds - a justification for something existing or happening; "he had no cause to complain"; "they had good reason to rejoice" |
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| 1. | noun | It is a Middle Eastern custom to read your future in your coffee grounds. | |
| 2. | noun | Al-Zaman : The Iraqi High Electoral Commission on Friday denied a request of the Debaathification Commission to exclude 51 individuals from running on party lists in the Dec. 15 elections on grounds of having been sufficiently involved in Baath activities to warrant their being excluded from civil office. | |
| 3. | noun | The Commission said it had no legal grounds for such an exclusion. | |
| 4. | noun | Since September 11, Pakistan has been repeatedly accused by Afghan and Western leaders of harbouring Taliban extremists who had pledged to disrupt the elections, but at the highest level the US has avoided criticising President Pervaiz Musharraf on the grounds that he is helping the US catch Al Qaeda elements inside Pakistan. | |
| 5. | noun | You charge SO MUCH, yet you use the same grounds over and over again. | |
| 6. | noun | HCC's new nine was a little shaky at first, but the NEW grounds superintendant has done wonders for the course!! | |
| 7. | noun | The rooms are SO clean, the managers/owners are the nicest people, the place feels so homey, and the location and grounds are beautiful. | |
| 8. | noun | You have no grounds for accusing Jill of stealing the stock certificates. | |
| 9. | noun | The school grounds extend as far as this fence. | |
| 10. | noun | There are good grounds for the view that Paris was the scene of frequent riots even before the revolution of 1789. | |
| 11. | noun | That doesn't give you grounds for complaining. | |
| 12. | noun | The clerk was dismissed on the grounds of her rude manners. | |
| 13. | noun | Students are forbidden to smoke on the school grounds. | |
| 14. | noun | Do you have any grounds for thinking so? | |
| 15. | noun | A few months later they return to their breeding grounds in the Arctic. | |
| 16. | verb | Ground the electrical connections for safety reasons. | |
| 17. | verb | Bad weather will ground the plane. | |
| 18. | verb | Go up to ground level at exit B2. | |
| 19. | verb | She ground down a kitchen knife in the course of many years. | |
| 20. | verb | If you don't start behaving I'll have to ground you. | |
| 21. | verb | Don't make me ground you. | |
| 22. | verb | Tycho's painstakingly collected data was reduced by Kepler to become grist for the mill that ground out Newton's gravitational theory. | |
| 23. | verb | It's time to ground some villages. | |
| 24. | verb | My grandmother pulled out a handful of green beans, poured them into an ancient pan, toasted them patiently, ground them in a wooden hand mill with a copper handle, carefully squeezed the result into an old-fashioned Hungarian espresso maker, put it on a tray, and two hours later, it was coffee. | |
| 25. | verb | I better not catch you going around there, or I'll ground you for a week. | |
| 26. | verb | I ground my teeth. | |
| 27. | verb | Tom wordlessly ground his teeth. | |
| 28. | verb | Bad weather will ground the plane. | |
| 29. | verb | Go up to ground level at exit B2. | |
| 30. | verb | She ground down a kitchen knife in the course of many years. |
| Sentence | |
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| noun | |
| It is a Middle Eastern custom to read your future in your coffee grounds. |
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| Al-Zaman : The Iraqi High Electoral Commission on Friday denied a request of the Debaathification Commission to exclude 51 individuals from running on party lists in the Dec. 15 elections on grounds of having been sufficiently involved in Baath activities to warrant their being excluded from civil office. |
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| The Commission said it had no legal grounds for such an exclusion. |
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| Since September 11, Pakistan has been repeatedly accused by Afghan and Western leaders of harbouring Taliban extremists who had pledged to disrupt the elections, but at the highest level the US has avoided criticising President Pervaiz Musharraf on the grounds that he is helping the US catch Al Qaeda elements inside Pakistan. |
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| You charge SO MUCH, yet you use the same grounds over and over again. |
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| HCC's new nine was a little shaky at first, but the NEW grounds superintendant has done wonders for the course!! |
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| The rooms are SO clean, the managers/owners are the nicest people, the place feels so homey, and the location and grounds are beautiful. |
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| You have no grounds for accusing Jill of stealing the stock certificates. | |
| The school grounds extend as far as this fence. | |
| There are good grounds for the view that Paris was the scene of frequent riots even before the revolution of 1789. | |
| That doesn't give you grounds for complaining. | |
| The clerk was dismissed on the grounds of her rude manners. | |
| Students are forbidden to smoke on the school grounds. | |
| Do you have any grounds for thinking so? | |
| A few months later they return to their breeding grounds in the Arctic. | |
| verb | |
| Ground the electrical connections for safety reasons. |
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| Bad weather will ground the plane. | |
| Go up to ground level at exit B2. | |
| She ground down a kitchen knife in the course of many years. | |
| If you don't start behaving I'll have to ground you. | |
| Don't make me ground you. | |
| Tycho's painstakingly collected data was reduced by Kepler to become grist for the mill that ground out Newton's gravitational theory. | |
| It's time to ground some villages. | |
| My grandmother pulled out a handful of green beans, poured them into an ancient pan, toasted them patiently, ground them in a wooden hand mill with a copper handle, carefully squeezed the result into an old-fashioned Hungarian espresso maker, put it on a tray, and two hours later, it was coffee. | |
| I better not catch you going around there, or I'll ground you for a week. | |
| I ground my teeth. | |
| Tom wordlessly ground his teeth. | |
| Bad weather will ground the plane. | |
| Go up to ground level at exit B2. | |
| She ground down a kitchen knife in the course of many years. | |