Le mot anglais du jour

ground

sol

Définitions

anglais > français
ground
1. n. Sol, terre.
2. n. (Archi) Fondation.
3. n. (Sport) Terrain.
4. v. Atterrir.
5. v. Retenir sur la terre.
6. v. Punir.
7. v. Prétérit du verbe to grind.
8. v. Participe passé du verbe to grind.
grind
1. v. Moudre, broyer.
2. v. (Sport;de glisse) Faire glisser en équilibre une partie plate d'une planche de skateboard ou de snowboard sur un rail, une rampe, un bord d'un muret ou tout autre obstacle le permettant.
3. n. Quelque chose de moulu.
anglais > anglais
ground
1. n. The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.
2. n. Terrain.
3. n. Soil, earth.
The worm crawls through the ground.
The fox escaped from the hounds by going to ground.
4. n. The bottom of a body of water.
5. n. Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.
6. n. reason, Reason, (epistemic) justification, cause.
You will need to show good grounds for your action.
He could not come on grounds of health, or on health grounds.
7. n. Background, context, framework, surroundings.
8. n. (historical) The area on which a battle is fought, particularly as referring to the area occupied by one side or the other. Often, according to the eventualities, "to give ground" or "to gain ground".
9. n. (metaphorical) Hence, by extension, advantage given or gained in any contest; e.g. in football, chess, debate or academic discourse.
10. n. plain surface upon which the figures of an artistic composition are set.
crimson flowers on a white ground
11. n. In sculpture, a flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief.
12. n. In point lace, the net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied.
Brussels ground
13. n. In etching, a gummy substance spread over the surface of a metal to be etched, to prevent the acid from eating except where an opening is made by the needle.
14. n. (architecture, mostly, in the plural) One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which mouldings etc. are attached.
Grounds are usually put up first and the plastering floated flush with them.
15. n. A soccer stadium.
Manchester United's ground is known as Old Trafford.
16. n. (electricity, Canadian, and US) An electrical conductor connected to the ground.
17. n. (electricity, Canadian, and US) A level of electrical potential used as a zero reference.
18. n. (cricket) The area of grass on which a match is played (a cricket field); the entire arena in which it is played; the part of the field behind a batsman's popping crease where he can not be run out (h
19. n. (music) A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a varying melody.
20. n. (music) The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.
21. n. The pit of a theatre.
22. v. (US) To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground.
23. v. To punish, especially a child or teenager, by forcing him/her to stay at home and/or give up certain privileges.
If you don't clean your room, I'll have no choice but to ground you.
Eric, you are grounded until further notice for lying to us about where you were last night!
My kids are currently grounded from television.
24. v. To forbid (an aircraft or pilot) to fly.
Because of the bad weather, all flights were grounded.
25. v. To give a basic education in a particular subject; to instruct in elements or first principles.
Jim was grounded in maths.
26. v. (baseball) to hit a ground ball; to hit a ground ball which results in an out. Compare fly (verb(regular)) and line (verb).
Jones grounded to second in his last at-bat.
27. v. (cricket) (of a batsman) to place his bat, or part of his body, on the ground behind the popping crease so as not to be run out
28. v. (intransitive) To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed.
The ship grounded on the bar.
29. v. To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly.
30. v. (fine arts) To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching, or as paper or other materials with a uniform tint as a preparation for ornament.
31. v. To improve or focus the mental or emotional state of.
I ground myself with meditation.
I ground the coffee up nicely.
32. adj. Crushed, or reduced to small particles.
ground mustard seed
33. adj. Processed by grinding.
lenses of ground glass
français > anglais
sol
1. n-m. soil, earth
2. n-m. ground
3. n-m. floor
4. n-m. (music) sol (the fifth step (G) in the solfège scale of C, preceded by fa and followed by la)
5. n-m. a Spanish-American gold or silver coin, now the main currency unit of Peru (also new sol), or a coin of this value

Exemples de phrases

We should lay down a few ground rules before we begin.

Nous devrions établir quelques règles de base avant de commencer.
Hours lost on the ground cancel out the advantage of speed in the air.

Les heures perdues au sol annulent l'avantage de la vitesse de croisière.
There's no hot water on the fifth floor, but there is on the ground floor.

Il n'y a pas d'eau chaude au cinquième étage, mais il y en a au rez-de-chaussée.
When the school had no books or paper or pencils, she wrote the alphabet on the ground with a stick.

Quand l'école n'avait ni livres ni papiers ni crayons, elle écrivait l'alphabet sur le sol à l'aide d'un bâton.
We saw the ground covered with snow.

Nous avons vu le sol couvert de neige.