Land vs Ground - What's the difference?
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The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and on which buildings can be erected.
A country or region.
A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
realm, domain.
(agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
(Irish English, colloquial) A fright.
(electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
In a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
(travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
(obsolete) The ground or floor.
* Spenser
(nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.
In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.
# (ballistics) The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.
* {{quote-book
, date = 2008-08-01
, chapter = Ballistics
, first = Lisa
, last = Steele
, title = Science for Lawyers
, editor = Eric York Drogin
, publisher = American Bar Association
, page = 16
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=H4zTATcB70wC&pg=PA16&dq=lands
, passage = The FBI maintains a database, the General Rifling Characteristics (GRC) file, which is organized by caliber, number of lands' and grooves, direction of twist, and width of ' lands and grooves, to help an examiner figure out the origin of a recovered bullet.
}}
* {{quote-video
, date = 2012-11-15
, episode = One Way to Get Off
, title =
, season = 1
, number = 7
, people = Jonny Lee Miller
, role = Sherlock Holmes
, passage = The human eye is a precision instrument. It can detect grooves and lands on a slug more efficiently than any computer.
}}
To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
(dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
* 1859 , “Rules adopted by the Sixth Avenue Railway, N. Y.”, quoted in Alexander Easton, A Practical Treatise on Street or Horse-Power Railways , page 108:
To come into rest.
To arrive at land, especially a shore, or a dock, from a body of water.
To bring to land.
* Shakespeare
To acquire; to secure.
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To deliver.
Of or relating to land.
Residing or growing on land.
(senseid)(uncountable) The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.
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, title= (uncountable) Terrain.
(uncountable) Soil, earth.
(countable) The bottom of a body of water.
Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.
Background, context, framework, surroundings.
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The plain surface upon which the figures of an artistic composition are set.
In sculpture, a flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief.
In point lace, the net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied.
In etching, a gummy 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.
(architecture, mostly, in the plural) One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which mouldings etc. are attached.
(countable) A soccer stadium.
(electricity, Canadian, and, US) An electrical conductor connected to the ground.
(electricity, Canadian, and, US) A level of electrical potential used as a zero reference.
(countable, cricket) The area of grass on which a match is played (a cricket field); the entire arena in which it is played; the part of the field behind a batsman's popping crease where he can not be run out (hence to make one's ground ).
(music) A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a varying melody.
(music) The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.
* 1592 , (William Shakespeare), '', act III, scene vii, in: ''The Works of Shake?pear V (1726),
The pit of a theatre.
To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground.
To punish, especially a child or teenager, by forcing him/her to stay at home and/or give up certain privileges.
To forbid (an aircraft or pilot) to fly.
To give a basic education in a particular subject; to instruct in elements or first principles.
(baseball) to hit a ground ball; to hit a ground ball which results in an out. Compare fly (verb(regular)) and line (verb).
(cricket) (of a batsman) to place his bat, or part of his body, on the ground behind the popping crease so as not to be run out
To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed.
To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly.
* Bible, Ephesians iii. 17
* Sir W. Hamilton
(fine arts) To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching, or as paper or other materials with a uniform tint as a preparation for ornament.
(grind)
Crushed, or reduced to small particles.
Processed by grinding.
In intransitive terms the difference between land and ground
is that land is to arrive at land, especially a shore, or a dock, from a body of water while ground is to run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed.In lang=en terms the difference between land and ground
is that land is to alight, to descend from a vehicle while ground is the tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.In transitive terms the difference between land and ground
is that land is to deliver while ground is to forbid (an aircraft or pilot) to fly.As a proper noun Land
is {{surname|from=Middle English}.land
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), .Noun
- Most insects live on land .
- There are 50 acres of land in this estate.
- They come from a faraway land .
- wet land'''; good or bad '''land for growing potatoes
- I'm going to Disneyland .
- Maybe that's how it works in TV-land , but not in the real world.
- He got an awful land when the police arrived.
- Our city offices sell a lot more land than our suburban offices.
- Herself upon the land she did prostrate.
- (Knight)
Derived terms
* bookland * brushland * bushland * cloud cuckoo-land * Crown land * Disneyland * downland * dry land * fantasy land * farmland * fat of the land * flatland * flogging the land * glebe-land * grassland * highland * homeland * Lalaland * land ahoy * land bridge * land degradation * land down under * land bridge * land line, landline * land mark * land mass, landmass * land mine, landmine * land of opportunity * land of the free * land yacht * landfall * landfill * landform * landholder * landlady * landless * landlocked * landlord * landlubber * landman * landmark * land poor * landscape * landslide * land use (see also ) * landward/landwards * law of the land * lay of the land * mainland * moorland * no man's land * on land * outland * overland * pastureland * pineland * playland * plowland * revenue land * spit of land * TV land * upland * wildland * woodlandVerb
(en verb)- The plane is about to land .
- 10. You will be civil and attentive to passengers, giving proper assistance to ladies and children getting in or out, and never start the car before passengers are fairly received or landed .
- It can be tricky to land a helicopter .
- Use the net to land the fish.
- I'll undertake to land them on our coast.
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Derived terms
(Terms derived from the verb "land") * crash-land * land on one's bridge * rellandAdjective
(-)Etymology 2
ground
English
(wikipedia ground)Etymology 1
From (etyl) grund , from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (contraction used in electronics)Noun
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- Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
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- crimson flowers on a white ground
- Brussels ground
- Grounds are usually put up first and the plastering floated flush with them.
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- 91;] The Mayor is here at hand; pretend ?ome fear, // Be not you ?poke with, but by mighty ?uit; // And look you get a prayer-book in your hand, // And ?tand between two churchmen, good my lord, // For on that ground I’ll build a holy de?cant: // And be not ea?ily won to our reque?ts: // Play the maid’s part, ?till an?wer nay, and take it.
- (Ben Jonson)
Synonyms
* (electricity) earth (British)Derived terms
* aboveground / above ground * air-to-ground * aground * break ground * breeding ground * burial ground * common ground * cricket ground * cumber ground / cumber-ground / cumberground * dead ground * ear to the ground * facts on the ground * fairground * figure and ground * from the ground up * gain ground * get off the ground * give ground * gill-over-the-ground * go to ground * ground bait * ground ball * ground bass * ground beetle * ground berry * ground-breaker * ground-breaking * ground cable * ground cedar * ground cherry * ground cloth * ground clutter * ground control * ground cover * ground effect * ground fault * ground fir * ground fire * ground fish * ground floor * ground forces * ground game * ground glass * ground hemlock * ground hog / ground-hog / groundhog * ground itch * ground ivy * ground lamella * ground laurel * ground level * ground loop * groundly * ground meristem * ground noise * ground offensive * ground out * ground pangolin * ground pine * ground plan * ground plane * ground plate * ground plum * ground pounder * ground proximity warning system * ground rattlesnake * ground rent * ground robin * ground roller * ground rule / ground-rule * ground-shaker * ground shark * ground sloth * groundsman * ground snake * ground speed * ground spider * ground squirrel * ground state * ground stroke * ground substance * ground swell * ground tackle * ground tissue * ground-to-air * ground truth * ground water * ground wave * ground wire * ground zero * groundwork * high ground / moral high ground * hit the ground running * home ground * kiss the ground someone walks on * know one's ass from a hole in the ground * lose ground * middle ground * neutral ground * off the ground * on the ground * parade ground * picnic ground * pleasure ground * proving ground * run into the ground * school ground * solid ground / on solid ground * stamping ground * stand one's ground * stomping ground * teeing ground * testing ground * thick on the ground * thin on the ground * underground * vantage ground * (ground)See also
* floor * terra firmaVerb
(en verb)- If you don't clean your room, I'll be forced to ground you.
- Carla, you are grounded until further notice for lying to us about where you were yesterday.
- My kids are currently grounded from television.
- Because of the bad weather, all flights were grounded .
- Jim was grounded in maths.
- Jones grounded to second in his last at-bat.
- The ship grounded on the bar.
- being rooted and grounded in love
- So far from warranting any inference to the existence of a God, would, on the contrary, ground even an argument to his negation.
Etymology 2
* See also milled.Verb
(head)- I ground the coffee up nicely.
Adjective
(-)- ground mustard seed
- lenses of ground glass