Lawn vs. Grass

Lawn vs. Grass — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Lawn and Grass

Lawnnoun

An open space between woods.

Grassnoun

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.

Lawnnoun

Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.

Grassnoun

(countable) Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.

Lawnnoun

(biology) An overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists.

Grassnoun

(uncountable) A lawn.

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Lawnnoun

(uncountable) A type of thin linen or cotton.

Grassnoun

Marijuana.

Lawnnoun

(in the plural) Pieces of this fabric, especially as used for the sleeves of a bishop.

Grassnoun

An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.

Lawnnoun

A piece of clothing made from lawn.

Grassnoun

Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.

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Lawnnoun

a field of cultivated and mowed grass

Grassnoun

Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.

Grassnoun

The season of fresh grass; spring.

Grassnoun

That which is transitory.

Grassverb

(transitive) To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).

Grassverb

To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.

Grassverb

(transitive) To cover with grass or with turf.

Grassverb

(transitive) To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.

Grassverb

(transitive) To bring to the grass or ground; to land.

to grass a fish

Grassnoun

narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay

Grassnoun

German writer of novels and poetry and plays (born 1927)

Grassnoun

animal food for browsing or grazing

Grassnoun

street names for marijuana

Grassverb

shoot down, of birds

Grassverb

cover with grass;

The owners decided to grass their property

Grassverb

spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach

Grassverb

cover with grass

Grassverb

feed with grass

Grassverb

give away information about somebody;

He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam