Building vs Grass - What's the difference?

building | grass |

As a noun building

is (uncountable) the act or process of building.

As a verb building

is .

As a proper noun grass is

building

English

Etymology 1

(etyl)

Noun

(en noun)

(uncountable) The act or process of building.

A closed structure with walls and a roof.

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Synonyms

* (act or process of building) construction * (closed structure with walls and a roof) edifice * See also

Derived terms

* apartment building * * building blocks * building permit * building society * building trade * office building * outbuilding * shipbuilding * bodybuilding * main building

Etymology 2

See (build)

Verb

(head)

grass

English

(wikipedia grass)

Noun

(countable, uncountable) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage='Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.}}

(countable) Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.

(uncountable) A lawn.

(uncountable, slang) Marijuana.

(countable, slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.

(uncountable, physics) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.

(uncountable, slang) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.

The season of fresh grass; spring.

* Latham

two years old next grass

(obsolete, figurative) That which is transitory.

* Bible Is. xl. 7

Surely the people is grass .

Synonyms

* ''Gramineae (alternative name)

Derived terms

* grasshopper * grass widow * grassy * lemongrass * ryegrass * supergrass

Verb

(es)

To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).

* 1893 , Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Naval Treaty’, Norton 2005, p.709:

He flew at me with his knife, and I had to grass him twice, and got a cut over the knuckles, before I had the upper hand of him.

(transitive, or, intransitive, slang) To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.

To cover with grass or with turf.

To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.

To bring to the grass or ground; to land.

to grass a fish