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Grounding vs Groundling - What's the difference?

grounding | groundling |

As nouns the difference between grounding and groundling

is that grounding is the return to a fully conscious state after a psychedelic experience while groundling is any of various plants or animals living on or near the ground, as a benthic fish or bottom feeder, especially.

As a verb grounding

is .

grounding

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The return to a fully conscious state after a psychedelic experience.
  • The collision of a ship with ground beneath the surface of the water.
  • The permanence of aircraft on land because of government action.
  • (electrical engineering) The interconnecting metal chassis/frame of a device, appliance, machine, or metal raceway via a designated conductor to earth at the Service Panel. The conductor may be bare or covered (with green plastic which may have a yellow stripe (US).) This conductor does NOT carry current in normal operation.
  • The absorption of energy through visualized "roots" descending from oneself into the ground, using Qi.
  • The act by which a child is grounded (forbidden from going out).
  • Verb

    (head)
  • groundling

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of various plants or animals living on or near the ground, as a benthic fish or bottom feeder, especially
  • # The (spined loach), , or other loaches.
  • # The ringed plover, Charadrius hiaticula .
  • by association, an individual of uncultivated or uncultured taste
  • in Elizabethan theater : an audience member (usually standing) in the cheap section
  • See also

    * (cheap section) nosebleed seat, peanut gallery

    References

    * Notes from an edition of Hamlet