OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 1155

ground

/ɡɹaʊnd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cueshte • molido • picado
Crushed, or reduced to small particles.
Alike, joy and sorrow, hope and fear, seemed ground to finest dust, and powdered, for the time, in the clamped mortar of Ahab's iron soul.
ground mustard seed
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📚 noun • entry_id 1153

ground

/ɡɹaʊnd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
huello • suelo • tierra
The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.
If the afternoon was fine they strolled together in the park, very slowly, and with pauses to draw breath wherever the ground sloped upward. The slightest effort made the patient c…
Look, I found a ten dollar bill on the ground!
tierra
Soil, earth.
The worm crawls through the ground.
fondo
The bottom of a body of water.
base • fondo • fundamento
Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.
Wyth cry unreverent, Before the sacrament, Wythin the holy church bowndis, That of our fayth the grownd is.
[B]e the consequences what they may, they shall not move an inch, nor a hair's-breadth from the ground of their groundless spiritual independence, […]
fondo
Background, context, framework, surroundings.
campo de futbol
A soccer stadium.
Manchester United's ground is known as Old Trafford.
polo a tierra • toma de tierra
An electrical conductor connected to the earth, or a large conductor whose electrical potential is taken as zero (such as a steel chassis).
А ground may be undesirable, inadvertent, or accidental path taken by an electrical current; or it may be the deliberate provision of conductors well connected to the ground by mea…
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📚 verb • entry_id 1154

ground

/ɡɹaʊnd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
castigar
To punish, especially a child or teenager, by forcing them to stay at home and/or give up certain privileges.
Eric, you are grounded until further notice for lying to us about where you were last night!
If you don't clean your room, I'll have no choice but to ground you.