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US
/ˈɡɹaʊndz, ˈɡɹaʊnz/
]
[ UK /ɡɹˈaʊndz/ ]
[ UK /ɡɹˈaʊndz/ ]
NOUN
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a justification for something existing or happening
they had good reason to rejoice
he had no cause to complain -
dregs consisting of solid particles (especially of coffee) that form a residue
it is a Middle Eastern custom to read your future in your coffee grounds -
the enclosed land around a house or other building
it was a small house with almost no yard -
your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief
the evidence that smoking causes lung cancer is very compelling - a tract of land cleared for some special purposes (recreation or burial etc.)
How To Use grounds In A Sentence
- The magnificent 18 th-century mansion is set in private landscaped grounds at the edge of the town, opposite the golf links and West Sands but totally screened by trees, woods and 18-foot high lodge gates.
- He admitted killing her but denied murder on the grounds of diminished responsibility and loss of control. Times, Sunday Times
- Rob also reckons that the south-west coast of Ireland has some of the best sailing grounds in the world - particularly around Roaring Water Bay in West Cork.
- The transitional zones between low backgrounds of W Mo group elements and iron group and chalcophile elements are the favorable enriched zones of uranium deposits.
- Dunstan: Dunstan: “What happens if the program administrator refuses to certify that the defendant “completed” the program on the grounds that the defendant refused to agree with certain teachings?” The Volokh Conspiracy » Stringent Constitutional Limits on Anger Management Classes, Anti-Drug/Alcohol-Abuse Classes, or Even Traffic School as Alternatives to Prosecution?
- The students are drawn from very mixed social backgrounds.
- _ When a scirrhus affects any gland of no great extent or sensibility, it is, after a long period of time, liable to suppurate without inducing fever, like the indolent tumors of the conglobate or lymphatic glands above mentioned; whence collections of matter are often found after death both in men and other animals; as in the liver of swine, which have been fed with the grounds of fermented mixtures in the distilleries. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
- It results in a rich mix of students from various backgrounds with different experiences of education. Times, Sunday Times
- We will fight them on the landing grounds. Times, Sunday Times
- Many local children play on the dirt grounds around this farm with the cockerels running loose all day.