1. ground
You're grounded
If time were reversed, raindrops would collect themselves from the ground and fly up to the clouds.
When warm, light, air crosses mountains it rises into the upper atmosphere and does not fall back to the ground. In this, and other, ways wind changes with the terrain.
Kori walked downwards as much as she could and ended up five stories below ground level.
An office building, with 22 stories above ground and 2 below, is under construction.
In the fight to abolish slavery Lincoln knew that he occupied the moral high ground.
There must be a sustained effort to listen to each other; to learn from each other; to respect one another; and to seek common ground.
How much ground beef do we need for this recipe? - About half a kilo, if I remember correctly.
ground for appeal, for divorce, of action
It's not my ground, I don't know anything about physics.
In the mountains it is not until the end of April that the snow disappears completely from the ground.
When the flight crew has their aircraft under control, everything is working normally and yet it still crashes into the ground, that's CFIT.
This is not about my capabilities. Even if I never had heard the slightest sound of english, I still could kneel down and put my face on the ground to show my submission. But who can force me into that?
The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder's lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.