Ground floor

Definition

ground 1 / graƱnd / n ၁။ the ground [sing] ေျမႀကီး။ ေျမျပင္။ sit on the ground ❍ He slipped off the ladder and fell to the ground. ❍ The aircraft didn't have enough power to get off the ground (ie take off). ❍ at ground level. ၂။ [U] (က) ေျမေနရာ။ ေျမကြက္။ have more ground than one's next-door neighbour ❍ buy up some ground for building on ❍ The land near the border is disputed ground. ❍ measure the ground between two points. (ခ) ေျမ။ solid / marshy/ stony ground. ❍ EARTH ၃။ (esp in compounds) (က) [C] (အားကစား၊ အပန္းေျဖ၊ စစ္ေရးျပ စသည္) ကြင္း။ a picnic / cricket / sports / recreation ground ❍ a parade-ground ❍ a playground ❍ The cheers of the fans echoed round the ground as the teams appeared. See also DUMPING GROUND (ခ) grounds [pl] (ငါး ဖမ္းရန္၊ အမဲလိုက္ရန္ စသည္အတြက္) အကြက္။ ကြင္း။ ေျမ။ fishing/ hunting grounds. ၄။ grounds [pl] ၿခံဝင္း။ ေျမ။ The house has extensive grounds. ❍ the school grounds. ၅။ [U] အေၾကာင္းအရာ။ ကိစၥ။ က႑။ နယ္ပယ္။ အေနအထား။ ရပ္တည္ခ်က္။ They managed to cover quite a lot of ground in a short programme. ❍ Let's not go over the same ground again. ❍ trying to find some common ground between the two sides ❍ You're on dangerous ground (ie saying sth likely to cause anger) when you criticize his daughter. ❍ I thought I'd be on safe ground (ie talking about a suitable subject) discussing his book with him. ၆။ [C esp pl ] ~ (for sth/ doing sth/ to do sth) အေၾကာင္းျပခ်က္။ အေၾကာင္း။ You have no grounds for complaint. ❍ If you continue to behave like this you will give them grounds for dismissing you. ❍ His continued absence gives ground for concern. ❍ Desertion is a ground (ie a legally sufficient reason) for divorce. ❍ They had no grounds to arrest him. ❍ I had to retire on medical grounds/ on the grounds of ill health (ie because I was ill). ❍ Her claim was disallowed on the grounds that she had not paid her premium. ❍ On what grounds do you make that accusation? ❍ REASON ၇။ [C] ေနာက္ခံ။ အခံ။ a design of pink roses on a white ground. ၈။ [U] ပင္လယ္ၾကမ္းျပင္။ The ship touched ground a few yards form the shore. ၉။ grounds [pl] အနည္။ v ၁။ ~ (sth) (in/ on sth) (သေဘၤာ) ေသာင္တင္သည္။ Our ship was grounded in shallow water/on a sandbank. ၂။ (esp passive) ေလယာဥ္တက္ခြင့္ မေပး။ All aircraft at London Airport were grounded by fog today. ၃။ ( esp US ) = EARTH v ၄။ ( US ) လူငယ္မ်ားကို အိမ္ျပင္ထြက္ခြင့္ ပိတ္သည့္ ဒဏ္တပ္သည္။ ❏ above ground [ IDM ] ေျမေပၚ။ ❏ be/ get in on the ground floor [ IDM ] ( infml ) (လုပ္ငန္းတစ္ခုကို) အစကတည္းက ပါဝင္ လုပ္ကိုင္သည္။ ❏ below ground [ IDM ] ေျမေအာက္။ Their missile silos are below ground. ❏ break fresh/ new ground [ IDM ] တီထြင္သည္။ break new ground in the field of electronics. ❏ cut the ground from under sb's feet [ IDM ] ကဖ်က္ယဖ်က္ လုပ္သည္။ ေျခထိုးသည္။ ❏ gain/ make up ground (on sb/ sth) [ IDM ] မီသည္။ မီလာသည္။ The police car was gaining ground on the robbers. ❍ How can we make up ground on our competitors? ❏ get (sth) off the ground [ IDM ] အစပ်ဳိးသည္။ get a company off the ground ❍ Without more money the film is unlikely to get off the ground. ❏ give/ lose ground (to sb/ sth) [ IDM ] ၁။ ဆုတ္ခြာရသည္။ ၂။ တန္႔ေနသည္။ The leader is losing ground as the rest of the runners accelerate. ❍ The gas lamp gradually lost ground to (ie was replaced by) electric lighting. ❏ ground control n [U] (ေလေၾကာင္းထိန္း) ေျမျပင္စခန္း၊ ဝန္ထမ္း၊ စက္ပစၥည္း စသည္။ ❏ ground crew n [CGp] (ေလေၾကာင္းထိန္း) ေျမျပင္စခန္း ဝန္ထမ္း။ ❏ ground floor n ေျမညီထပ္။ at ground-floor level ❍ a ground floor office. ❍ FLOOR ❏ ground sb in sth [ PHRV ] (esp passive) ေအာက္သက္ ေက်ေအာင္ သင္ၾကား ေလ့က်င့္ေပးသည္။ I was well grounded in mathematics at school. ❏ grounding n [sing] ~ ( in sth ) အေျခခံမ်ားကို သင္ၾကား ေပးျခင္း။ get a thorough grounding in grammar. ❏ ground sth on sth [ PHRV ] (esp passive) အေျခခံသည္။ political philosophy grounded on personal experience. ❏ ground-plan n အေဆာက္အအံုတစ္ခု၏ ေအာက္ေျခ စနစ္ ပံုစံ။ ❏ ground-rent n [U,C] (ၿဗိတိန္တြင္) တိုက္ခန္းပိုင္ရွင္က ေျမရွင္ကိုေပးသည့္ ေျမခ။ ❏ ground rule n ၁။ (usu pl ) အေျခခံမူ။ The new code of conduct lays down the ground rules for management-union relations. ၂။ ( US ) (ေဘ့စ္ေဘာႏွင့္ပတ္သက္ ေသာ သက္ဆိုင္ရာကြင္း၏) ေဒသႏၲရစည္းမ်ဥ္း။ ❏ ground staff n [CGp] ၁။ အားကစားကြင္းကို ထိန္းသိမ္းရေသာ ဝန္ထမ္းမ်ား။ ၂။ = GROUND CREW ❏ ground swell n (usu sing ) ~(of sth) တစ္ဟုန္ထိုး ျဖစ္ေပၚလာေသာ လူထု၏သေဘာထား။ Opinion polls indicate a ground swell of support for the Socialists. ❏ hold/ keep/ stand one's ground [ IDM ] ႀကံ႕ႀကံ႕ခံသည္။ He held his ground in the face of close questioning. ❍ Despite being pushed, he stood his ground. ❏ on the ground [ IDM ] သူလိုငါလို လူစား။ There's a lot of support for our policies on the ground. ❏ run, drive, etc sb/ oneself/ sth into the ground [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဗုန္းဗုန္းလဲသည္အထိ အလုပ္လုပ္သည္ (သို႔) ခ်ံဳးခ်ံဳးက်သည္အထိ သံုးသည္။ By working 13 hours a day she is running herself into the ground. ❍ We couldn't afford a new car, so we had to drive the old one into the ground. ❏ thick/ thin on the ground [ IDM ] ေပါမ်ားသည္။ မရွား။ (သို႔) နည္းသည္။ ရွားသည္။ ❏ to the ground [ IDM ] လံုးဝဥႆံု (ပ်က္စီးသည္၊ ဖ်က္ဆီးသည္)။ The building was burned to the ground. ground 2 pt, pp of GRIND: ႀကိတ္ထားေသာ အသား၊ အမႈန္႔။ ground rice/almonds (ie reduced to a fine powder) ❍ ( US ) ground beef.

Examples

1. I fell to the ground.
2. [on the ground] : People were sitting on the ground in small groups.
3. [above/below ground] : They were working 250 metres below ground.
4. The destruction caused by getting coal out of the ground
5. Prepare the ground for planting.
6. Sandy/marshy/stony/boggy ground
7. An acre of ground
8. [open ground] : She had to cross open ground to get to the sea.
9. [waste ground] : A piece of waste ground about 60 feet square
10. Soldiers on the parade ground
11. The polo grounds
12. The birds’ summer feeding grounds
13. A traditional fishing ground
14. She found him wandering around the grounds.
15. Maintenance of the buildings and grounds
16. [ground for] : There do seem to be some grounds for their complaints.
17. [reasonable grounds] : He believes he has reasonable grounds for making the demand.
18. [on (the) grounds of] : The Act prohibits discrimination on the grounds of sex or marital status.
19. [on medical/legal/financial etc grounds] : The army turned him down on medical grounds.
20. [on the grounds that] : They oppose the bill on the grounds that it is too restrictive.
21. Henry seems anxious to return to more familiar ground.
22. [cover ground] : We’ll be covering a lot of new ground in today’s lecture.
23. [go (back) over the same ground] : There’s no point in going over the same ground twice.
24. [fertile ground] : Germany in the 1920s and 30s was fertile ground for such ideas.
25. [the moral high ground] : It’s a bit late to start claiming the moral high ground.
26. [lose/gain ground] : Most stock markets lost ground after their recent gains.
27. [regain ground] : In Athenian politics
28. democratic views had been regaining ground.