Lawn vs. Grass
Lawn and Grass Definitions
Lawn
A plot of grass, usually tended or mowed, as one around a residence or in a park.
Grass
A member of the grass family.
Lawn
A light, finely woven, cotton or linen fabric.
Grass
The members of the grass family considered as a group.
Lawn
An open space between woods.
Grass
Any of various plants having slender leaves similar to those of a grass.
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Lawn
Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
Grass
Ground, as on a lawn, that is covered with grass or similar plants.
Lawn
(biology) An overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists.
Grass
Grazing land; pasture.
Lawn
(uncountable) A type of thin linen or cotton.
Grass
(Slang) Marijuana.
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Lawn
(in the plural) Pieces of this fabric, especially as used for the sleeves of a bishop.
Grass
(Electronics) Small variations in amplitude of an oscilloscope display caused by electrical noise.
Lawn
A piece of clothing made from lawn.
Grass
Chiefly British Slang An informer.
Lawn
An open space between woods.
"Orchard lawns and bowery hollows."
Grass
To cover with grass.
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Lawn
Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
Grass
To grow grass on.
Lawn
A very fine linen (or sometimes cotton) fabric with a rather open texture. Lawn is used for the sleeves of a bishop's official dress in the English Church, and, figuratively, stands for the office itself.
A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.
Grass
To feed (livestock) with grass.
Lawn
A field of cultivated and mowed grass
Grass
To become covered with grass.
Grass
To graze.
Grass
Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
Grass
(countable) Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
Grass
(uncountable) A lawn.
Grass
Marijuana.
Grass
An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
What just happened must remain secret. Don't be a grass.
Grass
Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
Grass
Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
Grass
The season of fresh grass; spring or summer.
Grass
That which is transitory.
Grass
Asparagus; "sparrowgrass".
Grass
(mining) The surface of a mine.
Grass
(transitive) To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
Grass
To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.
Thesaurus:rat out
Grass
(transitive) To cover with grass or with turf.
Grass
(transitive) To feed with grass.
Grass
(transitive) To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
Grass
(transitive) To bring to the grass or ground; to land.
Grass
Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts; pasture.
Grass
An endogenous plant having simple leaves, a stem generally jointed and tubular, the husks or glumes in pairs, and the seed single.
Grass
The season of fresh grass; spring.
Two years old next grass.
Grass
Metaphorically used for what is transitory.
Surely the people is grass.
Grass
Marijuana.
Grass
To cover with grass or with turf.
Grass
To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
Grass
To bring to the grass or ground; to land; as, to grass a fish.
Grass
To produce grass.
Grass
Narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay
Grass
German writer of novels and poetry and plays (born 1927)
Grass
Animal food for browsing or grazing
Grass
Street names for marijuana
Grass
Shoot down, of birds
Grass
Cover with grass;
The owners decided to grass their property
Grass
Spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach
Grass
Cover with grass
Grass
Feed with grass
Grass
Give away information about somebody;
He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam
