Crossword clues for grounded
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
ground \ground\ (ground), v. t. [imp. & p. p. grounded; p. pr. & vb. n. grounding.]
To lay, set, or run, on the ground.
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To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly.
Being rooted and grounded in love.
--Eph. iii. 17.So far from warranting any inference to the existence of a God, would, on the contrary, ground even an argument to his negation.
--Sir W. Hamilton To instruct in elements or first principles.
(Elec.) To connect with the ground so as to make the earth a part of an electrical circuit.
(Fine Arts) To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching (see Ground, n., 5); or as paper or other materials with a uniform tint as a preparation for ornament.
To forbid (a pilot) to fly an airplane; -- usually as a disciplinary measure, or for reasons of ill health sufficient to interfere with performance.
To forbid (aircraft) to fly; -- usually due to the unsafe condition of the aircraft or lack of conformity to safety regulations; as, the discovery of a crack in the wing of a Trijet caused the whole fleeet to be grounded for inspection.
To temporarily restrict the activities of (a child), especially social activity outside the house; -- usually for bad or unsatisfactory conduct; as, Johnny was grounded for fighting at school and can't go to the movies for two weeks.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"learned," late 14c.; "firmly fixed or established," 1540s, past participle adjective from ground (v.). Electrical sense is from 1889. Meaning "having been denied privileges" is from 1940s. Dickens had room-ridden "confined to one's room."
Wiktionary
1 (context aviation of an airman English) Not allowed to fly. 2 (context of a person predicative English) confined to stay inside, typically by a parent, as a punishment. 3 (context of a person English) mature, sensible with well-considered priority. 4 (context electricity North America English) Of or pertaining to an electrical conductor which is connected to earth; earthed. v
(en-past of: ground)
Wikipedia
Grounded, may refer to:
- Grounding (punishment), restrictions placed on movement or privileges
- "Grounded", a song by My Vitriol
- "Grounded", a song by Lower Than Atlantis from World Record
- Unaccompanied Minors, a film
- Grounded (comics), a comic book by Mark Sable for Image Comics
- "Superman: Grounded" a storyline in the Superman comic book, written by J. Michael Straczynski
- Grounded theory, research methodology in social sciences
- Ground (electricity) a power source is connected to the ground in case of a power surge.
Grounded is a coming-of-age story by Mark Sable and Paul Azaceta about a boy without super-powers who is sent to a high-school for super-powered teens. It was originally published as a six-issue limited series by Image Comics and was later collected in a trade paperback edition.
Usage examples of "grounded".
Sid followed the stretcher back to the skimmer where an aidman had it grounded while he worked on the bleeding and strapped on some narco-spray nerve blocks.
England mortally cankered with social discontent were not grounded in a surprising familiarity with backstairs morale.
And if, as you say, the Cold Turn made the Threads break into dust, perhaps ice from the coldest northlands might freeze and break grounded Threads.
Larnaca Airport between Egyptian commandos and Cypriot national guardsmen, from which the hijackers of the grounded jet emerged unscathed while the airfield was littered with the burning wreckage of the Egyptian transport aircraft and dozens of dead and dying Cypriots and Egyptians.
Stalin, whose historical determinants found themselves grounded in nature, sublimated under the name of Genius, that is, something irrational and inexpressible: here, depoliticization is evident, it fully reveals the presence of a myth.
Motion rather died away from her, and the priestess grounded as smoothly as a ship grounds in fine weather on a sandy bank.
It was a beautiful islet with coral sand so inviting that when the boats grounded, the men and dogs sloshed through the shallow water and ran ashore.
Peal is grounded on the Twenty-four changes Doubles and Singles on four bells.
Entomology is far less essentialistic, far more open to difference and change, far more attentive to the body, than is, say, cultural critique grounded in Frankfurt School post-Marxism or in Lacanian psychoanalysis.
When a firepot burst on its armored back, the dragon remained grounded no more.
The masts and headquarters building had been properly grounded and so escaped any real damage, but the exterior-exposed power grids had shorted out and had been cut loose by Seventeen to protect itself.
The river was split into a dozen channels, and the Hares kept the boat adroitly in deep water, for there was never a moment when it grounded.
The Hobbesian variant focuses primarily on the transfer of the title of sovereignty and conceives the constitution of the supranational sovereign entity as a contractual agreement grounded on the convergence of preexisting state subjects.
Their missile was in a hurry, too, chewing away the distance to the grounded ships.
It grounded him in reality, since none of the past two years had been real.