ground

/ɡraʊnd/

意味: 地面、根拠、立場

例文: Philo sank quietly into the ground.
　　  フィロは静かに地面に沈んでいった。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: ground floor(一階), ground level(地面の高さ), ground rules(基本ルール)

定義: 地面や土地のことを指します。また、建物の一番下の階を指すこともあります。電気の分野では、電気を安全に流すための接地を意味します。

groundは約7,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: the solid part of the earth’s surface
Noun: a rational motive for a belief or action
Noun: the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface
Noun: a relation that provides the foundation for something
Noun: a position to be won or defended in battle (or as if in battle)
Noun: the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground
Noun: material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)
Noun: a relatively homogeneous percept extending back of the figure on which attention is focused
Noun: a connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage)
Noun: (art) the surface (as a wall or canvas) prepared to take the paint for a painting
Noun: the first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface
Verb: fix firmly and stably
Verb: confine or restrict to the ground
Verb: place or put on the ground
Verb: instruct someone in the fundamentals of a subject
Verb: bring to the ground
Verb: hit or reach the ground
Verb: throw to the ground in order to stop play and avoid being tackled behind the line of scrimmage
Verb: hit a groundball
Verb: hit onto the ground
Verb: cover with a primer; apply a primer to
Verb: connect to a ground
Verb: use as a basis for; found on
Verb: press or grind with a crushing noise
Verb: make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together
Verb: work hard
Verb: dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one’s partner such that the dancers’ legs are interlaced
Verb: reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
Verb: created by grinding
Verb: shape or form by grinding

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The children played on the soft ground.(子供たちは柔らかい地面で遊んだ。)
She stood firm on the ground of truth.(彼女は真実の土台にしっかり立った。)
The airplane touched the ground safely.(飛行機は安全に地面に着陸した。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land
Noun: the earth shook for several minutes
Noun: he dropped the logs on the ground
Noun: the reason that war was declared
Noun: the grounds for their declaration
Noun: they dug into the earth outside the church
Noun: they were on a friendly footing
Noun: he worked on an interim basis
Noun: they gained ground step by step
Noun: they fought to regain the lost ground
Noun: he posed her against a background of rolling hills
Noun: the land had never been plowed
Noun: good agricultural soil
Verb: anchor the lamppost in concrete
Verb: After the accident, they grounded the plane and the pilot
Verb: the storm grounded the ship
Verb: he grounded to the second baseman
Verb: ground the electrical connections for safety reasons
Verb: base a claim on some observation
Verb: grate one’s teeth in anger
Verb: She was digging away at her math homework
Verb: Lexicographers drudge all day long
Verb: grind the spices in a mortar
Verb: mash the garlic
Verb: grind designs into the glass bowl
Verb: grind lenses for glasses and cameras

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): anchor, background, base, basis, bray, comminute, cranch, craunch, crunch, dig, drudge, dry land, earth, establish, fag, flat coat, footing, found, grate, grind, ground, labor, labour, land, mash, moil, prime, primer, primer coat, priming, priming coat, reason, run aground, soil, solid ground, strand, terra firma, toil, travail, undercoat

Antonyms(反意語): figure

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): break up, coat of paint, connect, connection, dance, fasten, foundation, hit, land, make, material, military position, object, paint, percept, press, put, rational motive, reach, restrain, shape, surface, teach, throw, view, work

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): abrasive, access, adhesive material, aggregate, airbrush, ammunition, anchor, animal material, appose, arouse, arrange, assemble, atom, atomize, attach, attachment, backbone, background, backhand, ballast, bank, bar, barrel, bear, beat, bed, bedding material, beget, belay, belly dance, belt, bight, bimetal, bind, bitt, blast, board, boogie, bop, bottle, bottom out, bounce, brad, break dance, brecciate, bridge, bring, brooch, bucket, buckle, build, builder, bump, bunker, bunt, butt, button, cable, cakewalk, cannon, carve, cast, catch, catch up, catechize, cause, cement, cha-cha, chain, charleston, charm, chemical, chip, chock, chop, choreograph, chuck, cinch, clamp, clap, clear, cleat, cleave, clinch, clog, coach, coapt, coast, cock, coffin, coloring material, commemorative, compose, composite material, condition, conductor, conga, connect, construct, contaminant, contradance, copy, cram, cramp, crank, create, create by mental act, create from raw material, create verbally, croquet, crumb, crunch, crush, culminate, curio, cut, cut out, daisy-chain, deep-six, defenestrate, deliver, derive, detritus, diamagnet, direct, discard, discharge, disco, disincentive, dispose, distill, docket, double, drag down, draw, dribble, drill, drive, dust, earth, elastomer, emplace, enchain, enlighten, ensconce, entrench, establish, exposure, face, farm, fetter, fiber, figure, fill, filling, film, film-make, find, finding, finish coat, fink, flat coat, fling, flip, floater, floccule, fluff, fly, foam, folk dance, follow through, fomite, footing, foreground, form, foul, foxtrot, freelance, froth, garter, generate, geological formation, get through, give, glimpse, glycerolize, grain, grass roots, grate, grind, ground, ground out, grout, growth, hail, handbuild, hang, hang together, hasp, hazmat, head, heave, heel, hill, hitch, hole, homogenate, hoodoo, hoof, hook, hookup, horizontal surface, humate, hurl, ice, imbricate, impound, impregnation, incentive, incorporate, indoctrinate, induct, insert, install, institute, insulator, interconnect, intersperse, jar, je ne sais quoi, jettison, jig, jitterbug, jive, job, joggle, join, joint, juggle, jumper, junction, juxtapose, keepsake, kick, kill, klein bottle, knuckle, labor, ladle, land, latch, lay, lay down, layer, lean, lecture, line, load, lob, location, lock, lock up, lodge, loft, machine, make, makeweight, mambo, man, manufacture, marshal, meniscus, mentor, middle, middle distance, mineral, misplace, miter, mobius strip, model, moon, moonlight, moor, mound, neighbor, nestle, noose, offset, one-step, originate, packing material, paper, parallelize, paring, park, part, particulate, pass, pelt, pen up, perch, picket, pigeonhole, pile, pillow, pin, pinion, pitch, plant, plant material, plaster, play, poise, polka, pop, position, postpose, pound, precursor, preform, prepare, prepose, press, prime, produce, property, prostrate, puddle, pull, puncture, push, put on, put through, putt, quickstep, rack up, racket, radioactive material, rag, raise, raw material, re-create, realize, reason, recess, recline, recreate, regenerate, reinforce, remains, repaint, replace, repose, reposition, reproduce, reshape, rest, rhumba, ribbon, ridge, rig, rind, rivet, rock, rope up, roughcast, samba, scale, scrape, screen, sculpt, sealing material, seat, serve, set, set down, settle, sew, shag, shank, shell, shelve, shimmy, shiner, ship, shoot, short-circuit, shy, side, side view, sign, single, sinter, siphon, situate, skank, skim, skin, slam, slam dance, slave, slice, slip ring, smash, snake, snap, snick, sorbate, sorbent, sow, space, spandrel, spike, splinter, spoonfeed, square dance, squash, squeeze, stake, stamp, stand, staple, stay, step, strand, strap, stratify, strike, string, stuff, style, subcontract, summit, sunder, superficies, superimpose, superpose, swage, tableau, tack, tango, tap dance, tapdance, tee, telephone line, temporary hookup, thickening, throw, tie, tie down, tinker, toe, toggle, toner, top, top out, track, train, transparent substance, tread, trench, triple, triviality, turn a trick, tutor, twine, twist, two-step, undercut, underlay, unteach, upend, vagabond, velcro, vernix, vertical surface, visual percept, volley, wad, wall, waltz, waste, web, whang, whole, wire, work surface, yoke, zip up

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): archipelago, badlands, beachfront, bottomland, build, cape, chew, coastal plain, coastland, common ground, couch, cultivated land, diatomaceous earth, earth, floor, foreland, forest, gnash, island, isthmus, landmass, mainland, mill, moraine, neck, occasion, overburden, oxbow, peninsula, permafrost, pestle, plain, polder, pulp, rangeland, saprolite, scablands, score, slash, soil, turf, wetland, why, wonderland

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: anchor, base, crunch, drudge, drudgery, earth, earthy, foundation, grind, grinder, grinding, ground, grounder, grounding, labor, laborer, labour, labourer, land, mash, masher, prime, primer, reason, toil, toiler, travail, undercoat

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: psychology, technology

Usage Category: formal

Usage Context: descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

中学レベル

英検3級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Atomic Habits, Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1, Holes

Movies(映画): Finding Nemo, Frozen, The Bad Guys, Zootopia

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: trust