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(verb) instruct someone in the fundamentals of a subject |
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Related Words: instruct, learn, teach |
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(verb) connect to a ground, of electrical connections for safety reasons |
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Related Words: connect, earth, link, tie |
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(verb) place or out on the ground |
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Related Words: lay, place, pose, position, put, set |
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(verb) confine or restrict to the ground; "After the accident, they grounded the plane and the pilot" |
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Related Words: confine, hold, restrain |
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(verb) hit or reach the ground |
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Synonyms: run aground |
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Related Words: arrive at, attain, gain, hit, make, reach |
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(verb) bring to the ground, as of vessels |
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Synonyms: run aground |
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Related Words: land |
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(noun) (art) the surface (as a wall or canvas) prepared to take the paint for a painting |
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Related Words: surface |
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(noun) a connection between an electrical device and the earth (which is a zero voltage) |
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Synonyms: earth |
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Related Words: connecter, connection, connective, connector, connexion |
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(noun) a relatively homogeneous percept extending back of the figure on which attention is focused |
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Related Words: percept, perception, perceptual experience |
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Antonyms: figure |
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(noun) a position to be won or defended in battle (or as if in battle); "they gained ground step by step"; "they fought to regain the lost ground" |
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Related Words: military position, position |
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(satellite adjective) broken or pounded into small fragments; used of e.g. ore or stone; "paved with crushed bluestone"; "ground glass is used as an abrasive" |
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Synonyms: crushed |
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(verb) fix firmly and stably; "anchor the lamppost in concrete" |
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Synonyms: anchor |
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Related Words: fasten, fix, secure |
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(verb) cover with a primer; apply a primer to |
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Synonyms: prime, undercoat |
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Related Words: paint |
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(noun) the first coat of paint applied to a surface |
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Synonyms: flat coat, primer, priming coat, undercoat |
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Related Words: coat of paint, couch |
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(noun) the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground; "he posed her against a background of rolling hillls" |
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Synonyms: background |
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Related Words: aspect, panorama, prospect, scene, view, vista |
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(noun) a rational motive for a belief or action; "the reason that war was declared"; "the grounds for their declaration" |
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Synonyms: reason |
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Related Words: account, occasion, rational motive, score, wherefore, why |
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(noun) what plants grow in (especially with reference to its quality or use); "the land had never been plowed"; "good agricultural soil" |
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Synonyms: land, soil |
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Related Words: badlands, bottom, bottomland, coastland, cultivated land, greensward, object, overburden, permafrost, physical object, rangeland, sod, sward, tillage, tilled land, tilth, turf, wetland |
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(noun) the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the surface of the land surface; "they dug into the earth outside the church" |
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Synonyms: earth |
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Related Words: diatomaceous earth, diatomite, dirt, kieselguhr, material, moraine, saprolite, soil, stuff |
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(verb) use as a basis for; found on; "base a claim on some observation" |
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Synonyms: base, establish, found |
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Related Words: build |
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(noun) a relation that provides the foundation for something; "they were on a friendly footing" or "he worked on an interim basis" |
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Synonyms: basis, footing |
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Related Words: common ground, foundation |
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(noun) the solid part of the earth's surface; "the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land"; "the earth shook for several minutes"; "he dropped the logs on the ground" |
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Synonyms: dry land, earth, land, solid ground, terra firma |
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Related Words: America, archipelago, cape, champaign, coastal plain, field, floor, foreland, forest, hills, island, isthmus, landmass, mainland, neck, ness, object, oxbow, peninsula, physical object, plain, slash, the Americas, timber, timberland, wonderland, woodland |
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