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Grounding   /grˈaʊndɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Grounding  n.  
1.
The act, method, or process of laying a groundwork or foundation.
2.
Hence: Elementary instruction; instruction in the basic concepts of a topic or skill.
3.
The act or process of applying a ground, as of color, to wall paper, cotton cloth, etc.; a basis.


verb
ground  v. t.  (past & past part. grounded; pres. part. grounding)  
1.
To lay, set, or run, on the ground.
2.
To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly. "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."
3.
To instruct in elements or first principles.
4.
(Elec.) To connect with the ground so as to make the earth a part of an electrical circuit.
5.
(Fine Arts) To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching (see Ground, n., 5); or as paper or other materials with a uniform tint as a preparation for ornament.
6.
To forbid (a pilot) to fly an airplane; usually as a disciplinary measure, or for reasons of ill health sufficient to interfere with performance.
7.
To forbid (aircraft) to fly; usually due to the unsafe condition of the aircraft or lack of conformity to safety regulations; as, the discovery of a crack in the wing of a Trijet caused the whole fleeet to be grounded for inspection.
8.
To temporarily restrict the activities of (a child), especially social activity outside the house; usually for bad or unsatisfactory conduct; as, Johnny was grounded for fighting at school and can't go to the movies for two weeks.


ground  v. i.  To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed; as, the ship grounded on the bar.


ground  v.  Imp. & p. p. of Grind.
ground cock, a cock, the plug of which is ground into its seat, as distinguished from a compression cock.
Ground glass, glass the transparency of which has been destroyed by having its surface roughened by grinding.
Ground joint, a close joint made by grinding together two pieces, as of metal with emery and oil, or of glass with fine sand and water.





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... serviceable is another variety of Carrick-ma-cross, on which the lawn is appliqued to a machine-made net, the pattern outlined with buttonhole stitches, and the surplus lawn cut away, leaving the network as a grounding, various pretty stitchings filling ...
— Chats on Old Lace and Needlework • Emily Leigh Lowes
... placed his cannon in position, so as to command the Kalmuck camp, the fate of the rebel Khan and his people would be in his own hands; and they would themselves form his advanced guard. Traubenberg, however, why has not been certainly explained, refused to march, grounding his refusal upon the condition of his army, and their absolute need of refreshment. Long and fierce was the altercation; but at length, seeing no chance of prevailing, and dreading above all other events the escape of their detested ...
— Narrative And Miscellaneous Papers • Thomas De Quincey
... hours per week, gives a thorough grounding in plain needlework, and girls are then capable of beginning dressmaking, in they can reach a very reasonable proficiency when they leave school. Whether they turn this to practical account in their own homes, or make use of it in Clothing Societies and Needlework Guilds ...
— The Education of Catholic Girls • Janet Erskine Stuart
... striped, but it does not look a bit rounder; and a cheek is prettier because it is flushed, but you would see the form of the cheek bone better if it were not. Color may, indeed, detach one shape from another, as in grounding a bas-relief, but it always diminishes the appearance of projection, and whether you put blue, purple, red, yellow, or green, for your ground, the bas-relief will be just as clearly or just as imperfectly relieved, as long as the colors are of equal depth. The blue ground will not ...
— The Elements of Drawing - In Three Letters to Beginners • John Ruskin
... the yere 1554, were seldomer in vse then they are at this day, namely, the darkenesse of popery being scarsely at that time dispelled. Which also is to be vnderstood concerning the Psalmes of Dauid mumbled by the common people in Latine, as he casteth vs in the teeth: for the Papists grounding all the hope of their saluation in the Masse, did little regard the sermon or doctrine. But after we were freed from that mist, it hath bene (God be thanked) farre otherwise with vs: although we cannot altogether excuse the dulnesse, ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries - of the English Nation, v. 1, Northern Europe • Richard Hakluyt


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