Grounds

Definition: Grounds

Grounds

Noun

1. Your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief; "the evidence that smoking causes lung cancer is very compelling".

2. The enclosed land around a house or other building; "it was a small house with almost no yard".

3. A tract of land cleared for some special purposes (recreation or burial etc.).

4. A justification for something existing or happening; "he had no cause to complain"; "they had good reason to rejoice".

5. Sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "grounds" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Building

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Synonyms: Grounds

Evidence

Noun: evidence; facts, premises, data, praecognita, grounds.

Heaven

Olympus; Elysium, Elysian fields, Arcadia, bowers of bliss, garden of the Hesperides, third heaven; Valhalla, Walhalla (Scandinavian); Nirvana (Buddhist); happy hunting grounds; Alfardaws, Assama; Falak al aflak "the highest heaven" (Mohammedan).

Plain

Meadow, mead, haugh, pasturage, park, field, lawn, green, plat, plot, grassplat, greensward, sward, turf, sod, heather; lea, ley, lay; grounds; maidan, agostadero.

Resistance

Verb: resist; not submit; repugn, reluct, reluctate, withstand; stand up against, strive against, bear up under, bear up against, be proof against, make head against; stand, stand firm, stand one's ground, stand the brunt of, stand out; hold one's grounds, hold one's own, hold out, hold firm.

Uncleanness

Sordes, dregs, grounds, lees; argol; sediment, settlement heeltap; dross, drossiness; mother, precipitate, scoriae, ashes, cinders. recrement, slag; scum, froth.

Crosswords: Grounds

A nickel will buy you a steak and kidney pie, a cup of coffee, a slice of cheesecake and a newsreel with enough change left over to ride the trolley from Battery Park to the polo grounds. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Coffee grounds (Beverly Hills Cop; writing credit: Danilo Bach; Daniel Petrie Jr.)

What are the grounds for divorce in this state (Shall We Dance; writing credit: Harold Buchman; Lee Loeb)

The little man has been spotted on school grounds. I've got out an all-points bulletin (Boston Public; writing credit: John Zuur Platten)

On the courtroom grounds under the windows (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear)

We have only stood our grounds, now the storm is breaking (Above The Clouds; performing artist: Amber)

Stroll around the grounds until you feel at home (MRS. ROBINSON; performing artist: Simon and Garfunkel)

Grounds for Marriage (1950)

Happy Hunting Grounds (1940)

Grounds for Murder (1930)

Sandy Hook U.S. Proving Grounds (1901)

President Roosevelt Entering Grounds at Army-Navy Football Game (1901)

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References

• Fair Grounds Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• Ballparks of North America: A Comprehensive Historical Reference to Baseball Grounds, Yards and Stadiums, 1845 to Present (reference)

• Bitter Grounds (reference)

• Incompatibility: Still Grounds for a Great Marriage (reference)

• Indians on the Game: An Inside Look at Baseball in the Words of Cleveland's Favorite Players (and coaches, grounds crew, broadcasters, vendors . . .) (reference)

• Killing Grounds (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Grounds Maintenance (reference)

• Parks & Grounds Buyers Guide (reference)

• Parks And Grounds (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Killing Grounds (reference)

• The Killing Grounds (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Common Grounds (reference)

• Buildings and Grounds (reference)

• Stompin' Grounds (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Shown is an aerial view of the NIH Bethesda Campus, part of the National Naval Medical Center grounds and Suburban Hospital. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

The Lena River, some 2,800 miles(4,500km) long, is one of the largest rivers in the world. The Lena Delta Reserve is the most extensive protected wilderness area in Russia. It is an important refuge and breeding grounds for many species of Siberian wildlife. Credit: NASA.

Where the Volga River flows into the Caspian Sea, it creates an extensive delta. The Volga Delta is comprised of more than 500 channels, and sustains the most productive fishing grounds in Eurasia. Credit: NASA.

Leaving Seattle for the working grounds on a foggy April day. PATHFINDER on the left - ______ on the right. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

PATHFINDER on the working grounds at Kagalaska Island. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

A shrimp boat heads out for the fishing grounds. Credit: Fisheries.

Preparing longlines prior to heading for the fishing grounds. Credit: Fisheries.

The reefs off Mona Island are the resting grounds for many ships. The wreck in the image is the M/V El Alborada, grounded offshore of Pajaros on Mona Island in in 1980. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

The second in a series of images that show restoration partners and volunteers collecting migrating anadromous blueback herring and alewife. The volunteers and scientists captured the fish and then moved them in trucks above the dams to their spawning grounds. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A garden on the grounds of a Lima cathedral. Credit: Small World.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

It shall be lawful in future for anyone (excepting always those imprisoned or outlawed in accordance with the law of the kingdom, and natives of any country at war with us, and merchants, who shall be treated as if above provided) to leave our kingdom and to return, safe and secure by land and water, except for a short period in time of war, on grounds of public policy- reserving always the allegiance due to us. (reference)

In the latter case, the Debtor Clearing Office will give the grounds for the non-admission of debt. (reference)

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As they were turning into the grounds, Mr. Perry passed by on horseback

These chambers looked out upon the shapeless grounds of the neighbourhood

One day he had stood beside her looking into the hotel grounds.

They drank the scalding coffee and threw the grounds to the earth and filled their cups again

The ornamented grounds of villas which will one day be built here may still preserve some trace of this

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Health

Appropriate use of FFP must be justified on clinical grounds until better evidence is available. (references)

Rainfall expands breeding grounds, and in many tropical areas, malaria cases increase during the rainy season. (references)

Herpes simplex infections are often difficult to diagnose on clinical grounds alone because it may be difficult to differentiate them from mucosal lesions of other etiologies. (references)

Business

The physical abuse of children can be grounds for criminal prosecution. (references)

Various grounds for rescission of the contract need to be examined and reflected in the contract. (references)

The court must then issue an arrest warrant stating the grounds for detention or order the person's release. (references)

Children

Sri Lanka

In 1996 Parliament passed legislation forbidding discrimination against any person on the grounds of disability. (references)

Australia

The law makes it illegal to discriminate against a person on the grounds of disability in employment, education, provision of goods, services, and facilities, access to premises, and other areas. (references)

Senegal

The board had refused to hire a candidate with physical disabilities who had passed a recruitment test, on the grounds that persons with physical disabilities were not qualified for the job of teaching. (references)

Civil Liberties

Georgia

A requesting party has no grounds for appeal. (references)

Solomon Islands

Native-born citizens may not be deprived of citizenship on any grounds. (references)

Jordan

The GID sometimes withholds passports from citizens on security grounds. (references)

Discrimination

Ireland

The 2000 Equal Status Act outlaws discrimination in the provision of goods, facilities, and services on the basis of these nine grounds. (references)

United Kingdom

In Northern Ireland the Fair Employment Act specifically banned employment discrimination on the grounds of religious or political opinion. (references)

Belize

Discrimination on ethnic or religious grounds is illegal and rare, although ethnic tension, particularly resentment of recently arrived Central American and Asian immigrants, continued to be a problem. (references)

Economic History

New Zealand

A trademark may be expunged from the register on the grounds of non-use. (references)

Sweden

After 5 years, a registration becomes incontestable on grounds of prior use. (references)

Ecuador

Bucaram was deposed by the Congress in February 1997 on grounds of alleged mental incompetence. (references)

Human Rights

Egypt

Any denial of this right is grounds for appeal of the ruling. (references)

Malaysia

Since his arrest, Anwar has been denied bail on questionable legal grounds. (references)

United Kingdom

An appellate court may overturn the decision on either factual or legal grounds. (references)

Minorities

Bulgaria

On September 20, a group of youths hit a Romani boy on the head with a rock on the grounds of his school. (references)

Slovak Republic

In September 2000, Parliament voted to lift his parliamentary immunity, thus allowing criminal prosecution on the grounds of instigating racial hatred. (references)

United Kingdom

Employment discrimination on religious grounds is prohibited by law in Northern Ireland, although not in the rest of the country, and a public tribunal adjudicates complaints. (references)

Political Economy

Sudan

Bashir suspended the Parliament on the grounds that it was necessary for the unity of the country. (references)

ITALY

If a judge deems the grounds spurious, he can order that a dismissed worker be reinstated or compensated. (references)

PAKISTAN

These items are restricted on religious, security and balance-of-payment grounds or to protect domestic industry. (references)

Political Rights

Ghana

The EC refused on the grounds that this would make competition for parliamentary seats unfair. (references)

Peru

They were removed on grounds that they failed to abide by their oath of office to uphold the Constitution. (references)

Uzbekistan

The OSCE declined to monitor the presidential election on the grounds that the preconditions did not exist for it to be free and fair. (references)

Trade

Greece

Greece also sometimes prevents or delays customs clearance on the grounds of phytosanitary problems. (references)

New Zealand

Some agricultural goods are restricted on phytosanitary grounds, with the main commodities affected being poultry and egg products. (references)

Pakistan

The major portion of the "negative" list consists of items whose import is prohibited on religious, health, or national security grounds. (references)

Travel

Taiwan

Extensions of visitor visas may be granted up to a maximum of two extensions of sixty days each, provided applicants have valid grounds for making such requests. (references)

Women

Brunei

Islamic religious authorities recognize wife beating as grounds for divorce. (references)

Saudi Arabia

Women who demonstrate legal grounds for divorce still are entitled to this alimony. (references)

Worker Rights

Sri Lanka

Incompetence or low productivity are not grounds for dismissal. (references)

Sri Lanka

This requirement is the only legal grounds for cancellation of registration. (references)

Netherlands

In special circumstances, residence permits are granted on humanitarian grounds. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "grounds": adequate grounds ♦ airport grounds ♦ Barren Grounds ♦ coffee grounds ♦ exhibition grounds ♦ fishing grounds ♦ gathering grounds ♦ give grounds for ♦ Happy hunting grounds ♦ hold one's grounds ♦ hunting grounds ♦ legal grounds ♦ on health grounds ♦ on technical grounds ♦ on the grounds that ♦ reasonable grounds ♦ spreading grounds ♦ the happy hunting grounds. Additional references.

Beginning with "grounds": grounds--it, grounds-that.

Ending with "grounds": back-grounds, breeding-grounds, hunting-grounds, landing-grounds.

Albanian

reshje (fall, precipitation, rainfall), llum (dregs, dross, Lees, ooze, raff, ragtag, riffraff, scab, scum, scut, sludge, tails, vermin, wash), kopsht (Arbor, arbour, garden, kailyard, kaleyard, Park), fundërri (canaille, deposition, dregs, feculence, Lees, ragtag, sediment, vermin). (various references)

Arabic 

‏أساس (armature, base, basis, bottom, crux, footing, foundation, fundament, ground, grounding, pedestal, roadbed, rock, structure, subsoil, substratum, substructure), ‏أرض (amphitheatre, earth, floor, ground, land, site, soil, terrain, territory, topsoil), ‏أراضى. (various references)

Bulgarian 

градина (garden, pleasance, yard), основание (basis, cause, foundation, ground, merits, occasion, reason, subject, warrant, warranty), мотив (figure, inducement, motif, motive, pattern, spring, subject, tune), парк (fleet, gardens, pleasance, pleasure ground, rolling stock, stock, yard). (various references)

Chinese 

空地. (various references)

Czech

zahrady, pozemky, park (Park, pleasure ground), motiv (motif, motive), dùvod (argument, cause, matter, occasion, reason), areál. (various references)

Danish

terræn (ground, terrain). (various references)

Dutch

terrein (field, ground, terrain). (various references)

Esperanto

tereno (ground, terrain). (various references)

Faeroese

lendi (ground, terrain). (various references)

Finnish

sakka (deposit, dregs, precipitate, sediment), puisto (park), poro (dregs, reindeer, sediment), pohjasakka (dregs, lees, sediment), maa (country, earth, ground, land, soil, terrain). (various references)

French

terrain (ground). (various references)

Frisian

mêd (ground, terrain). (various references)

German

gelände (exhibition center, ground, open country, precincts, premises, site, terrain, territory), Böden (bottoms, soils). (various references)

Greek 

κήποι, σκεπτικό (preamble), χώρος (room, space). (various references)

Hebrew 

שמרים (leavening, yeast), טעונים, סבות. (various references)

Hungarian

zacc (coffee grounds, dregs, Lees). (various references)

Italian

motivo (account, call, cause, design, incentive, inducement, motif, motive, occasion, pattern, point, reason, sake, score, theme). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

邸内 (premises). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きょうぎじょう (field, stadium), きょういき (border, boundary, precinct), でがら, こうない (campus, inside the harbour, oral, premises, within a pit orshaft, within a school), ゆえん (acquaintance, affinity, cause, lamp soot, reason, relation, way of doing), よりどころ (authority, foundation, ground, something upon which to rely, support), げんきょ (basis), けいだい (compound, Keio University), ていない (inside the court, premises), だしがら. (various references)

Korean 

지상 (ground). (various references)

Manx

thallooyn, faaieaghyn (grounds of park), drundin (dregs, sediment). (various references)

Papiamen

tereno (ground, terrain). (various references)

Pig Latin

oundsgray.(various references)

Polish

teren (ground, terrain). (various references)

Portuguese

terreno (building sit, glebe, ground, land, mundane, soil, terrain, terrene, terrestrial, worldly). (various references)

Romanian

zaţ (draff, dregs, ground, matter), peluzã (green, greensward, lawn), ogradã (court, courtyard, enclosure, yard), ocol (bounds, compass, courtyard, detour, enclosure, round, roundabout, surrounding, surroundings, tour, turn, wheel), drojdii (Lees), drojdie (barm, draff, dregs, Lees, residue, scum, tailing, yeast). (various references)

Russian 

участок земли (allotment, lot, parcel, plat, plot), сад (garden, orchard, pleasure ground, sade), осадок (aftertaste, crust, deposit, dregs, faeces, precipitate, precipitation, residue, residuum, sediment, settling, sludge), парк при доме. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

teren (outfield, terrain), soc (coffee grounds, sediment). (various references)

Spanish

terreno (earthy, going, ground, land, location, Park, piece of ground, piece of land, rough, terrain). (various references)

Swedish

sump (corf, Marsh, swamp). (various references)

Turkish

tortu (crust, deposit, deposition, draff, dregs, faeces, fecula, feculence, foots, Lees, remainder, residual, residue, residuum, sediment, settlings, tailings). (various references)

Turkmen 

lцdere (sediment, thicket). (various references)

Ukrainian

основи (a.b.c., abc, accidence, elements, essentials, foundations, outline), зачатки (rudiments). (various references)

feces, fecibus, fecis, fex. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "grounds": groundsel, groundsels, groundsheet, groundsheets, groundskeeper, groundskeepers, groundsman, groundsmen, groundswell, groundswells. (additional references)

Words ending with "grounds": backgrounds, battlegrounds, campgrounds, fairgrounds, foregrounds, playgrounds, undergrounds. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Grounds" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gounds, Grohnde, gronnd, groud, grouds, grounde, groundy, grounse. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: gourds, ground, rounds, sundog.

-2 letters: dongs, drugs, dungs, durns, duros, gourd, nodus, nurds, round, rungs, sound, sudor.

-3 letters: dogs, dong, dons, dors, dour, drug, dugs, dung, duns, duos, durn, duro, gnus, gods, guns, nods, nogs, nous, nurd, onus, ouds, ours, rods, rugs, rung, runs, snog, snug, song, sord, sorn, sour, sung, surd, udos.

+1 letter: goldurns, guerdons.

+2 letters: dangerous, gourmands, grounders, groundsel, gueridons, noseguard, rigaudons, scrounged, shrouding, strouding, trudgeons, underdogs, undergods, undergoes.

+3 letters: greyhounds, groundfish, groundhogs, groundings, groundless, groundmass, groundnuts, groundouts, groundsels, groundsman, groundsmen, gunpowders, gynandrous, noseguards, resounding, sandgrouse, stroudings.

+4 letters: androgynous, backgrounds, beshrouding, bodysurfing, campgrounds, curmudgeons, dangerously, discoursing, enshrouding, fairgrounds, foregrounds, gourmandise, gourmandism, graduations, groundburst, groundlings, groundsheet, groundswell, groundwoods, groundworks, hydrogenous, jaguarondis, outdressing, outstriding, oversudsing, playgrounds, sandgrouses, shouldering, smouldering, squadroning, surrounding, unsoldering.