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ground
Noun
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The ground is what you stand or sit on when you are outside.
I ran out of the house and fell on the ground.
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Ground is terrain; it is the land.
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Ground is earth or soil.
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A ground is the bottom of a body of water.
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The ground for something is the basis or foundation of it.
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The ground for something is the background or context of it.
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A ground is a soccer stadium.
ground
Verb 1
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If you ground a pilot of an airplane, you stop them from flying.
The plane had been grounded because of the blizzard.
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If you ground a circuit of electricity, you connect it with a ground.
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If you ground a child, you take away their privileges, like the phone and the television, and not allow them to go out, usually as a punishment.
ground
Adjective
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If something is ground, it is crushed into small particles.
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If something is ground, it has been prepared through grinding.
glass
Noun
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Glass is a transparent solid and is usually clear. Windows and eyeglasses are made from it, as well as drinking glasses.
Through the window glass I could see the trees bend in the wind, but I was warm indoors.
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A glass is a drinking cup with no handle.
As soon as I finished drinking, he filled up my glass again.
screen
Noun
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A screen is a flat surface for showing pictures, text or video.
The information appears on the computer screen almost right away.
I couldn't see the movie because the person in front of me was blocking the screen.
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A screen is a flat surface between two areas, often letting something in but keeping something out.
The hole in the window screen let the bugs in.
There was a screen around my hospital bed.
screen
Verb
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If you screen blood, people, information, etc., you find or block unwanted things.
They carefully screen the blood for viruses before giving it to hospitals.
He put on a hat to screen his eyes from the sun.
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If you screen a movie, a TV show, etc., you put it on a screen.
They screened the new movie for the press last week.