If the afternoon was fine they strolled together in the park, very slowly, and with pauses to draw breath wherever theground sloped upward. The slightest effort made the patient cough.
Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days.[…] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep theground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
From theground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts.
1971, “The development of terrain following radar: an account of the progress made with an airborne guidance system for low flying military aircraft”, inAircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology:
As the terrain-following radar scans theground ahead of the aircraft the actual clearance height is measured by the radio altimeter.
c.1503–1512,John Skelton,Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor,John Skelton: The Complete English Poems,1983,→OCLC, page62, lines11–14:
Wyth cry unreverent, Before the sacrament, Wythin the holy church bowndis, That of our fayth thegrownd is.
1840, Lewis Rose, chapter III, inAn Humble Attempt to Put an End to the Present Divisions in the Church of Scotland, and to Promote Her Usefulness.[…][1], Glasgow: George Gallie,→OCLC,page51:
[B]e the consequences what they may, they shall not move an inch, nor a hair's-breadth from theground of their groundless spiritual independence,[…]
(historical) The area on which a battle is fought, particularly as referring to the area occupied by one side or the other. Often, according to the eventualities, "to give ground" or "to gain ground".
(figurative, by extension) Advantage given or gained in any contest; e.g. in football, chess, debate or academic discourse.
(in combination) A place suited to a specified activity.
a forest traditionally used as a hunting-ground
1876,Parliamentary Papers, volume14, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, page147:
I gather from your last answer that at the present time the constabulary, to a certain extent, is good recruitingground for the army?
[…] to pad a piece in diluted acetate of alumine to obtain a pale lemonground[…]
1941 December, “The Why and the Wherefore: Cornish names of G.W.R. locomotives”, inRailway Magazine, page575:
One and All is the motto of the County of Cornwall, used below the coat-of-arms, which is a shield embracing fifteen bezants, or golden roundels, on a blackground; [...].
(sculpture) A flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief.
(point lace) The net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied.
Brusselsground
(etching) Agummy substance spread over the surface of a metal to be etched, to prevent the acid from eating except where an opening is made by the needle.
1961, “GROUND”, inThe International Dictionary of Physics and Electronics, 2nd edition, Princeton, NJ: D. Van Nostrand,page539:
Аground 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 means of plates buried therein, or similar device.
Buck[ingham] The Mayor is here at hand; pretend ſome fear, // Be not you ſpoke with, but by mighty ſuit; // And look you get a prayer-book in your hand, // And ſtand between two churchmen, good my lord, // For on thatground I’ll build a holy deſcant: // And be not eaſily won to our requeſts: // Play the maid’s part, ſtill anſwer nay, and take it.
1885,Manual of the Administration of the Madras Presidency, page515:
It is sub-divided into annas (or 16ths), of 3,600 square feet each; or when the land is for building purposes, intogrounds (munnies) of 1/24 of a cawny each, as in the town of Madras.
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2023 November 15, Prof. Jim Wild, “This train was delayed because of bad weather in space”, inRAIL, number996, page30:
These geomagnetically induced currents (GICs) can become a hazard when they flow through conducting infrastructure, usually entering and exiting networks where equipment isgrounded to Earth.
2019 March 21, Chris Cwik, “Ichiro Suzuki Goes Out in Style, Retires After Series in Japan”, inYahoo! Sports[2]:
[Ichiro Suzuki] went 0 for 4, popping out in foul territory,grounding out to second, and striking out looking. And then, in the top of the eighth inning with a runner on second, the “True Hit King”grounded out to short, just barely failing to beat it out.
2019 April 10, Ben Walker (AP), “Twins Pitchers Go Wild, Syndergaard and Mets Stroll 9-6”, inYahoo! Sports[3], archived fromthe original on11 April 2019:
The Twins scored three times in the eighth to make it 9-4 and loaded the bases with no outs. Jeurys Familia got Willians Astudillo toground into a double play, limiting the damage.
2023, Sina J. Semnani, Violet Z. Yao, Heidi C. Zhang, Monica S. Lam, “WikiChat: A Few-Shot LLM-Based Chatbot Grounded with Wikipedia”, in(Please provide the book title or journal name)[4]:
We design WikiChat (Figure 1) toground LLMs using Wikipedia to achieve the following objectives. While LLMs tend to hallucinate, our chatbot should be factual.
2025 May 9, Mike Caulfield, “AI Is Not Your Friend”, inThe Atlantic[5]:
But the technology has evolved rapidly over the past year or so. Today’s systems can incorporate real-time search and use increasingly sophisticated methods for “grounding”—connecting AI outputs to specific, verifiable knowledge and sourced analysis.
Alike, joy and sorrow, hope and fear, seemedground to finest dust, and powdered, for the time, in the clamped mortar of Ahab's iron soul.
1969,Tulane Studies in Zoology and Botany[7], volume16, page16:
The intestinal contents ofF. Stellifer seem finelyground in comparison to those ofF. catenatus, probably as a result of chewing with the stout pharyngeal molars.
2018, S Sivakumar, E Zwier, PB Meisenheimer…, “Bulk and Thin Film Synthesis of Compositionally Variant Entropy-stabilized Oxides”, inJournal of Visualized Experiments:
Powder mixing and grinding are complete when the powder is homogenous and grey-black in color, appears finelyground, and feels smooth.
1985, Sergeĭ Aristarkhovich Semenov,Prehistoric Technology: An Experimental Study of the Oldest Tools and Artefacts from Traces of Manufacture and Wear[8], page14:
the traces of wear have the appearance of dull patches that lookground.
2000,Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland[9], page258:
The axial perforation, the handle socket and the quern base are all rough and do not appearground or polished
2018, H Glimpel, HJ Lauffer, A Bremstahler,Finishing Tool, In Particular End Milling Cutter, US Patent App. 15/764,739
An advantage of such a finishing tool is that, after the machining, the workpiece has high surface quality. The surface which is produced appears finelyground to polished by means of this procedure.
