Situation vs Ground - What's the difference?
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The way in which something is positioned vis-à-vis its surroundings.
* 1908 , (Kenneth Grahame), (The Wind in the Willows) :
The place in which something is situated; a location.
* 1833 , Thomas Hibbert and Robert Buist, The American Flower Garden Directory , page 142:
Position or status with regard to conditions and circumstances.
The combination of circumstances at a given moment; a state of affairs.
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(UK, dated) A position of employment; a post.
* 1913 , , (Sons and Lovers) , Penguin 2006, page 78:
* 1946 , Vaughn Horton, Denver Darling, Milt Gabler, :
A difficult or unpleasant set of circumstances; a problem.
(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.
Situation is a related term of ground.
As nouns the difference between situation and ground
is that situation is while ground is (senseid)(uncountable) the surface of the earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.As a verb ground is
to connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground or ground can be (grind).As an adjective ground is
crushed, or reduced to small particles.situation
English
Alternative forms
* scituationNoun
(en noun)- ...he being naturally an underground animal by birth and breeding, the situation of Badger's house exactly suited him and made him feel at home; while the Rat, who slept every night in a bedroom the windows of which opened on a breezy river, naturally felt the atmosphere still and oppressive.
- [Hibíscus] speciòsus is the most splendid, and deserves a situation in every garden.
- When he was nineteen, he suddenly left the 'Co-op' office, and got a situation in Nottingham.
- You take a morning paper from the top of the stack
- And read the situations from the front to the back
- The only job that's open need a man with a knack
- So put it right back in the rack Jack.
- Boss, we've got a situation here...
Synonyms
* (combination of circumstances) condition, set upSee also
* situation comedy, sitcomReferences
* Source for the definitions: ** Dictionary.com. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/situation] (accessed: March 10, 2007). * * *Anagrams
* ----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.
The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground , 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.}}
- 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