Ground may refer to:
- Earth's surface
- Soil, a mixture of clay, sand and organic matter present on the surface of the Earth and serving as substrate for plant growth and micro-organisms development
- Ground, in electrical engineering, something that is connected to the Earth or at the voltage defined as zero (in the U.S., called ground; in the UK, called earth):
- Earthing system
- Ground (electricity)
- Ground and neutral
- Ground (often grounds), in law, a rational motive, basis for a belief or conviction, for an action taken, such as a legal action or argument; reason or cause:
- Grounds for divorce
- Grounds for dismissal
- Common ground, in communication, people sharing some common understanding
- Coffee grounds, ground coffee beans
- Socially grounded argument—in philosophy, arguments that take social conditions as their starting point
- Ground bass, in music, a bass part that continually repeats, while the melody and harmony over it change
- Ground tissue, one of the three types of tissue systems in a plant
- Ground term, in symbolic logic, a term with no variables
- Ground surface, often on metals, created by various grinding operations
- Football stadium
- Ground (unit), a unit of area used in India
- Ground a drawing surface or a coating applied to a substrate for a drawing surface
- The Ground, a 2005 album by Norwegian jazz pianist Tord Gustavsen
Famous quotes containing the word ground:
“[If not re-elected in 1864] then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he can not possibly save it afterwards.”
—Abraham Lincoln (18091865)
“Even great towers start at ground level.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Having interrd her Infant-birth,
The watry ground that late did mourn,
Was strewd with flowrs for the return
Of the wishd Bridegroom of the earth.”
—Edward Herbert (15831648)