What is the meaning of GROUNDS. Phrases containing GROUNDS
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The noseup landing posture normal for most land-based aircraft. Carrier jets eliminate flare in favor of a slamming contact with the deck. Also the terminal portion of a helicopter autorotation in which rotor speed can be accelerated while reducing rate-of-descent and forward groundspeed.
A domestic or kitchen assistant at Christ's Hospital Boarding school in West Sussex, UK. Friday afternoon activities included the option of 'Bocker Squad' where they made you do odd jobs around the grounds of the school.
(grouts) Â sediment of liquid in a container, that of beer being often used as yeast or barm in making bread
a place where seal give birth to their pups
A euphemistic way of saying my ni**a or my best friend. Note: because of the use of the word 'coon' this is a very explosive word just like the 'N' word. African Americans may use it among themselves, but it is rude (and grounds for a beat down in some circles)for someone of another ethnicity to use it. In other words, it's an 'off-limits' word. "Johnny and me been down since we was shorties. You know he my Ace Boon Coon."Â
interj Scottish a general word of exclamation. Very Scottish. Groundskeeper Willie Scottish: Och, yer jokinÂ’!
a harp seal just past the white-coat stage and migrating north from the breeding grounds on the ice floes off Newfoundland; a dissolute woman
Indicates that a person is unqualified for his/her position and received it on racial grounds. One of the two black characters on the show South Park is named Token. Could be used for any race.
To Pog is to throw. Pogging is throwing. Common term in North West (Cheshire) UK play grounds. Cica 1944 Example "he pogged a stone at me"
Walking in the Wash Brook stream for no reason other than to see how far you could get before someone noticed that you were walking through their grounds and set their dog on you.
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A small European and Asiatic deer (Capreolus capraea) having erect, cylindrical, branched antlers, forked at the summit. This, the smallest European deer, is very nimble and graceful. It always prefers a mountainous country, or high grounds.
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A genus of trees or shrubs including the willow, osier, and the like, growing usually in wet grounds.
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A road or avenue cut in a wood, or through grounds, to be used as a place for riding; a riding.
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To imagine without certain knowledge; to infer on slight grounds; to suppose, conjecture, or suspect; to guess.
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The doctrine that no fact or principle can be certainly known; the tenet that all knowledge is uncertain; Pyrrohonism; universal doubt; the position that no fact or truth, however worthy of confidence, can be established on philosophical grounds; critical investigation or inquiry, as opposed to the positive assumption or assertion of certain principles.
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Abounding with weeds; as, weedy grounds; a weedy garden; weedy corn.
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The beaten path made by deer or other animals in passing to and from their feeding grounds.
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To clear of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink; to render pure or clear; -- said of a liquid; as, to settle coffee, or the grounds of coffee.
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Alt. of Groundsill
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A very large genus of composite plants including the groundsel and the golden ragwort.
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An inflation of mind upon slight grounds; empty pride inspired by an overweening conceit of one's personal attainments or decorations; an excessive desire for notice or approval; pride; ostentation; conceit.
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A kind of coarse grass growing in wet grounds, and supposed to be injurious to sheep.
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While; whereas; although; -- used in the manner of a conjunction to introduce a dependent adverbial sentence or clause, having a causal, conditional, or adversative relation to the principal proposition; as, he chose to turn highwayman when he might have continued an honest man; he removed the tree when it was the best in the grounds.
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The system or theory that denies the existence of material bodies, and teaches that we have no rational grounds to believe in the reality of anything but ideas and their relations.
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A doubter as to whether any fact or truth can be certainly known; a universal doubter; a Pyrrhonist; hence, in modern usage, occasionally, a person who questions whether any truth or fact can be established on philosophical grounds; sometimes, a critical inquirer, in opposition to a dogmatist.
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A genus of gelatinous fungi found in moist grounds.
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A thick residuum obtained from certain substances after the fluid parts are expressed from them; the grounds which remain after treating a substance with any menstruum, as water or alcohol.
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The liberty or right of pasture in the forest or in the grounds of another man.
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To contend, contest, or altercate, esp. in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds.
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Structures in civil, military, or naval engineering, as docks, bridges, embankments, trenches, fortifications, and the like; also, the structures and grounds of a manufacturing establishment; as, iron works; locomotive works; gas works.
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