Land vs. Ground

The solid ground of the earth.

The solid surface of the earth.

Ground or soil

The floor of a body of water, especially the sea.

A topographically or functionally distinct tract

Soil; earth

A nation; a country.

Often grounds An area of land designated for a particular purpose

The people of a nation, district, or region.

Often grounds The land surrounding or forming part of a house or another building

Lands Territorial possessions or property.

An area or a position that is contested in or as if in battle

Public or private landed property; real estate.

Something that serves as a foundation or means of attachment for something else

(Law) The solid material of the earth as well as the natural and manmade things attached to it and the rights and interests associated with it.

A surrounding area; a background.

An agricultural or farming area

Often grounds The foundation for an argument, belief, or action; a basis.

Farming considered as a way of life.

Often grounds The underlying condition prompting an action; a cause

An area or realm

The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.

The raised portion of a grooved surface, as on a phonograph record.

(uncountable) Terrain.

To bring to and unload on land

Soil, earth.

To set (a vehicle) down on land or another surface

(countable) The bottom of a body of water.

(Informal) To cause to arrive in a place or condition

Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.

To catch and pull in (a fish)

, (epistemic) justification, cause.

(Informal) To win; secure

Background, context, framework, surroundings.

(Informal) To deliver

(historical) The area on which a battle is fought, particularly as referring to the area occupied by one side or the other. Often, according to the eventualities, "to give ground" or "to gain ground".

To come to shore

Advantage given or gained in any contest; e.g. in football, chess, debate or academic discourse.

To disembark

The plain surface upon which the figures of an artistic composition are set.

To descend toward and settle onto the ground or another surface

(sculpture) A flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief.

(Informal) To arrive in a place or condition

(point lace) The net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied.

To come to rest in a certain way or place

(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.

The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.

One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which mouldings etc. are attached.

Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and acquired and on which buildings and structures can be built and erected.

(countable) A soccer stadium.

A country or region.

An electrical conductor connected to the earth, or a large conductor whose electrical potential is taken as zero (such as a steel chassis).

A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.

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).

The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.

(music) A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a varying melody.

Realm, domain.

(music) The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.

(agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.

The pit of a theatre.

A shock or fright.

(US) To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground.

(electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.

(transitive) To punish, especially a child or teenager, by forcing them to stay at home and/or give up certain privileges.

On a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.

(transitive) To forbid (an aircraft or pilot) to fly.

(travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.

To give a basic education in a particular subject; to instruct in elements or first principles.

(obsolete) The ground or floor.

(baseball) To hit a ground ball. Compare fly (verb (regular)) and line (verb).

(nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.

To place something on the ground.

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.

(intransitive) To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed.

(ballistics) The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.

To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly.

A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.

(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.

Lant; urine

To improve or focus the mental or emotional state of.

(intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.

Simple past tense and past participle of grind

(dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.

Crushed, or reduced to small particles.

(intransitive) To come into rest.

Processed by grinding.

(intransitive) To arrive on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water.

The surface of the earth; the outer crust of the globe, or some indefinite portion of it.

(transitive) To bring to land.

Any definite portion of the earth's surface; region; territory; country.

To capture or arrest.

Land; estate; possession; field; esp. (pl.), the gardens, lawns, fields, etc., belonging to a homestead; as, the grounds of the estate are well kept.

(transitive) To acquire; to secure.

The basis on which anything rests; foundation. Hence: The foundation of knowledge, belief, or conviction; a premise, reason, or datum; ultimate or first principle; cause of existence or occurrence; originating force or agency; as, the ground of my hope.

To succeed in having sexual relations with; to score

That surface upon which the figures of a composition are set, and which relieves them by its plainness, being either of one tint or of tints but slightly contrasted with one another; as, crimson Bowers on a white ground.

(transitive) (of a blow) To deliver.

A gummy composition 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.

(intransitive) (of a punch) To connect

One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which moldings, etc., are attached; - usually in the plural.

(intransitive) To go down well with an audience.

A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a varying melody.

Urine. See Lant.

A conducting connection with the earth, whereby the earth is made part of an electrical circuit.

The solid part of the surface of the earth; - opposed to water as constituting a part of such surface, especially to oceans and seas; as, to sight land after a long voyage.

Sediment at the bottom of liquors or liquids; dregs; lees; feces; as, coffee grounds.

Any portion, large or small, of the surface of the earth, considered by itself, or as belonging to an individual or a people, as a country, estate, farm, or tract.

The pit of a theater.

Ground, in respect to its nature or quality; soil; as, wet land; good or bad land.

To lay, set, or run, on the ground.

The inhabitants of a nation or people.

To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly.

The mainland, in distinction from islands.

To instruct in elements or first principles.

The ground or floor.

To connect with the ground so as to make the earth a part of an electrical circuit.

The ground left unplowed between furrows; any one of several portions into which a field is divided for convenience in plowing.

To forbid (a pilot) to fly an airplane; - usually as a disciplinary measure, or for reasons of ill health sufficient to interfere with performance.

Any ground, soil, or earth whatsoever, as meadows, pastures, woods, etc., and everything annexed to it, whether by nature, as trees, water, etc., or by the hand of man, as buildings, fences, etc.; real estate.

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.

The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; - called also landing.

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.

In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, as the level part of a millstone between the furrows, or the surface of the bore of a rifled gun between the grooves.

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

To set or put on shore from a ship or other water craft; to disembark; to debark.

The solid part of the earth's surface;

To catch and bring to shore; to capture; as, to land a fish.

A rational motive for a belief or action;

To set down after conveying; to cause to fall, alight, or reach; to bring to the end of a course; as, he landed the quoit near the stake; to be thrown from a horse and landed in the mud; to land one in difficulties or mistakes.

The loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface;

To pilot (an airplane) from the air onto the land; as, to land the plane on a highway.

A relation that provides the foundation for something;

To come to the end of a course; to arrive at a destination, literally or figuratively; as, he landed in trouble; after hithchiking for a week, he landed in Los Angeles.

A position to be won or defended in battle (or as if in battle);

To go on shore from a ship or boat; to disembark.

The part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground;

To reach and come to rest on land after having been in the air; as, the arrow landed in a flower bed; the golf ball landed in a sand trap; our airplane landed in Washington.

Material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use);

The land on which real estate is located;

A relatively homogeneous percept extending back of the figure on which attention is focused

Material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use);

A connection between an electrical device and the earth (which is a zero voltage)

The solid part of the earth's surface;

(art) the surface (as a wall or canvas) prepared to take the paint for a painting

Territory over which rule or control is exercised;

The first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface

The territory occupied by a nation;

Fix firmly and stably;

A domain in which something is dominant;

Confine or restrict to the ground;

Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use;

Place or put on the ground

The people who live in a nation or country;

Instruct someone in the fundamentals of a subject

A politically organized body of people under a single government;

Bring to the ground;

United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one-step photographic process (1909-1991)

Hit or reach the ground

Working the land as an occupation or way of life;

Throw to the ground in order to stop play and avoid being tackled behind the line of scrimmage

Reach or come to rest;

Hit a groundball;

Cause to come to the ground;

Hit onto the ground

Bring into a different state;

Cover with a primer; apply a primer to

Bring ashore;

Connect to a ground;

Deliver (a blow);

Use as a basis for; found on;

Arrive on shore;

Broken or pounded into small fragments; used of e.g. ore or stone;

Shoot at and force to come down;

Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land;

Operating or living or growing in water;