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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

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