📖 G — The English dictionary · page 29

grotesque — Everyday, meaning 1: Strange, distorted and ugly in a silly or frightening way.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A grotesque is a strange carved or painted figure.↗ (noun).↗ Example: The gargoyle had a grotesque face.↗ · The devil looked grotesque in the firelight.↗ · Grotesque faces grinned at us from the carved walls.↗

grotto — Everyday, meaning 1: A small cave, often a shady or decorated place, sometimes made in a garden.↗ Example: The children found a grotto behind the waterfall.↗ · The nymphs lived in a shady grotto.↗ · Santa has a grotto in the shop.↗

ground — Everyday, meaning 1: The surface of the Earth that you stand on.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Soil, earth.↗ e.g. "The ground is hard."↗ Everyday, meaning 3: An area of land used for something.↗ e.g. "playground", "sports ground".↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A reason.↗ e.g. "on the grounds that".↗ Everyday, meaning 5: As a verb, to keep a child at home as punishment or to keep a plane from flying.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: Past of "grind".↗ e.g. "ground coffee".↗ Everyday, meaning 7: To cover ground means to travel a long way quickly or to make good progress.↗ Example: The ball fell to the ground.↗ · The ground is wet after the rain.↗ · We play in the playground.↗ · Crawl along the ground under the smoke.↗ · Our flat is on the ground floor.↗ · Seeds grow in the ground.↗ · He was grounded for a week.↗ · Mum bought ground pepper.↗ · “He covers the ground,” said another.↗ · And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.↗ (Torah GEN.4.2, JPS 1917)↗ · but there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.↗ (Torah GEN.2.6, JPS 1917)↗ · Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it out upon the ground as water.↗ (Torah DEU.15.23, JPS 1917)↗ · He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and watersprings into a thirsty ground; (Writings PSA.107.33, JPS 1917)↗ · Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and cast righteousness to the ground; (Prophets AMO.5.7, JPS 1917)↗ · The LORD upholdeth the humble; He bringeth the wicked down to the ground.↗ (Writings PSA.147.6, JPS 1917)↗

groundhog — Everyday, meaning 1: A groundhog is a North American animal, a large brown rodent that lives in burrows and sleeps through the winter; it is also called a woodchuck.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Groundhog Day is a custom in the USA and Canada where people watch a groundhog come out of its burrow: if it sees its shadow, there will be six more weeks of winter.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) «Groundhog Day» means a situation that keeps repeating in the same boring way, from a famous film.↗ Example: The groundhog dug a burrow under the shed.↗ · Groundhogs hibernate all winter.↗ · On Groundhog Day everyone waits to see the groundhog's shadow.↗ · The groundhog saw its shadow, so the story says winter will last longer.↗ · A groundhog is also called a woodchuck.↗ · How much wood would a woodchuck chuck?↗ · Every day at the bus stop is like Groundhog Day.↗ · Groundhogs eat plants and can whistle when scared.↗

groundsman — Everyday, meaning 1: (UK) A person whose job is to look after a sports field, park or school grounds: cutting grass, marking lines, caring for the pitch.↗ Example: The groundsman mowed the football pitch.↗ · Ask the groundsman before you go on the field.↗ · The groundsman marked the running track.↗ · Cricket groundsmen roll the pitch flat.↗ · The groundsman was cross about the muddy footprints.↗ · Our school groundsman plants the flower beds.↗

groundwork — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The first work or base on which something else is built.↗

group — Everyday, meaning 1: A group is a number of things or people that are together or belong together: a group of friends.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A group is a band that plays music.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To group things is to put them together in sets: group the shapes by colour.↗ Example: When we put two groups together, we add.↗ · 4 books are put into 2 equal groups.↗ How many books are in each group?↗ · There are 5 groups with 3 children in each group.↗ · We worked in groups of four.↗ · Group the shapes by colour.↗ · A group of ducks swam across the pond.↗ · Whales and bats belong to the group called mammals.↗ · Stay with your group on the school trip.↗ · Everywhere groups of boys were gathered together.↗ · tion of numbers and letters ; every letter suggesting a 'number, and every group of letters having a numerical signification, as vital as its literal meaning.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · "Its form is simple and grave; there is nothing like a demonstration nor an argument; but it consists rather of a series of aphorisms, regularly grouped, and which have all the conciseness of the most ancient oracles."↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · With these three classes, or groups, of letters were created the various parts of the world ish'-j), of the year ("Jti') and of tiie soul.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

grouper — Everyday, meaning 1: A grouper is a big, heavy sea fish with a wide mouth that lives in warm seas, often near coral reefs and rocks.↗ Example: A huge grouper swam slowly past the divers.↗ · The giant grouper can weigh as much as a small car.↗ · Groupers hide in caves on the coral reef.↗ · Dad ordered grilled grouper at the seafood restaurant.↗ · Some groupers change from female to male.↗ · Overfishing has made some grouper rare.↗

grouping — Everyday, meaning 1: A set of people or things that are put together because they are alike or work together.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The act of putting things into groups.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (maths) Putting numbers or objects into equal groups to help count, multiply or divide; also using brackets to group parts of a calculation.↗ Example: We used grouping to count the beads in tens.↗ · 20 sweets shared by grouping into 5s gives 4 groups.↗ · In science we did a grouping of animals by what they eat.↗ · The teacher changed the table groupings this week.↗ · Brackets show the grouping in 2 × (3 + 4).↗ · A new grouping of countries agreed to work together on climate.↗ · Grouping words by their spelling patterns helps me learn them.↗ · The grouping of the processes of origin into an arrangement, at once alphabetic and numeral, is one only to be found in Semitic authors.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

grouse — Everyday, meaning 1: A grouse is a plump, brown wild bird with feathered legs that lives on moors and in forests.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) To grouse means to complain or grumble, and a grouse is a complaint.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (Australia, NZ, slang) Grouse means really good or excellent.↗ Example: A grouse flew up from the heather.↗ · Red grouse live on the moors of Scotland.↗ · The male sage grouse puffs up its chest to show off.↗ · Stop grousing about the rain and put your coat on.↗ · My only grouse is that the film was too long.↗ · (Australia) That pie was grouse, mate!↗ · Grouse are hard to see because their feathers match the moor.↗ · Thus spoke the grouse, who certainly had very pretty manners.↗

grove — Everyday, meaning 1: A small group of trees, or a small wood.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An orchard of fruit trees, such as an orange grove or olive grove.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Used in street names.↗ e.g. Elm Grove.↗ Example: We had a picnic in a shady grove of oak trees.↗ · Olive groves cover the hills in Greece.↗ · They picked oranges in the orange grove.↗ · The elves lived in a secret grove.↗ · My cousin lives on Maple Grove.↗ · Birds sang in the grove all morning.↗ · It is like entering a grove of chestnut and walnut-trees.↗

grovel — Everyday, meaning 1: To lie or crawl low on the ground, especially to show fear or respect.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To beg or act very humbly to win favour.↗ Example: The dog grovelled at his master's feet.↗ · He grovelled before the king for pardon.↗ · Stop grovelling and stand up straight!↗

grow — Everyday, meaning 1: To grow is to get bigger or taller, like a child or a plant.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To grow plants is to plant them and help them come up from the soil.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To grow can mean to increase in number or amount, like a town or savings.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To grow can mean to become, as in grow tired or grow dark.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To grow up is to change from a child into an adult.↗ Example: The plant grows 3 cm each week.↗ · She grew 20 tomatoes.↗ · The puppy grew 4 kilograms.↗ · How tall will it grow in 5 weeks?↗ · I want to be a vet when I grow up.↗ · It grew dark, so we went inside.↗ · The beanstalk grew taller than the house.↗ · My little brother grew out of his shoes.↗ · All children, except one, grow up.↗ · And the child grew, and was weaned.↗ (Torah GEN.21.8, JPS 1917)↗ · And the man waxed great, and grew more and more until he became very great.↗ (Torah GEN.26.13, JPS 1917)↗ · And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son.↗ (Torah EXO.2.10, JPS 1917)↗ · Can the reed-grass grow without water?↗ (Writings JOB.8.11, JPS 1917)↗ · And the child Samuel grew before the LORD.↗ (Prophets 1SA.2.21, JPS 1917)↗ · In the beds where it grew it shall wither.'↗ (Prophets EZK.17.10, JPS 1917)↗

grower — Everyday, meaning 1: A grower is a person or company that grows plants, fruit or vegetables to sell, such as a fruit grower or a flower grower.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A grower is a plant that grows in a certain way: «a fast grower», «a slow grower».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) Something that is «a grower» is a song, show or thing you do not like at first but come to like more and more.↗ Example: My uncle is a strawberry grower.↗ · Coffee growers in Kenya pick the berries by hand.↗ · Bamboo is a very fast grower.↗ · The grower sells his apples at the market.↗ · Oak trees are slow growers.↗ · I didn't like the song at first, but it's a grower.↗ · Flower growers in the Netherlands grow millions of tulips.↗ · We visited a tomato grower's greenhouse.↗

groweth — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «groweth» means «grows», a form of «grow».↗ e.g. To grow is to get bigger or taller, like a child or a plant.↗ Example: A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you; ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of the undressed vines.↗ (Torah LEV.25.11, JPS 1917) · That which groweth of itself of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, and the grapes of thy undressed vine thou shalt not gather; it shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.↗ (Torah LEV.25.5, JPS 1917)

growing — Everyday, meaning 1: Growing means getting bigger or taller right now.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Growing plants means raising them from seeds.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Growing can mean increasing or becoming more, like a growing crowd.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A growing child is one who is still getting bigger.↗ Example: The tree is growing 30 cm a year.↗ · She is growing 12 sunflowers.↗ · The growing puppy eats more each week.↗ · His savings keep growing by 5 dollars.↗ · Growing up on a farm, she learned to ride.↗ · A growing crowd waited at the gate.↗ · We are growing beans in cups on the windowsill.↗ · Growing children need about 10 hours of sleep.↗ · I feel that I am growing.↗

growl — Everyday, meaning 1: Of an animal like a dog, bear or lion, to make a low, rough, deep sound in the throat as a warning or because it is angry.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Of a person, to say something in a low, angry voice.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Of a stomach or engine, to make a low rumbling noise: my tummy is growling.↗ Example: The dog growled when the boy reached for its bone.↗ · If a dog growls, back away slowly.↗ · The bear gave a deep growl.↗ · "Get out!" the giant growled.↗ · My stomach growled during the quiet test.↗ · The car engine growled as it climbed the hill.↗ · Never tease a dog that is growling.↗ · The lion growled to warn the other lions away.↗ · "Nonsense, nonsense!" growled the sleepy Giant.↗ · They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions' whelps.↗ (Prophets JER.51.38, JPS 1917)↗ · We all growl like bears, and mourn sore like doves; we look for right, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.↗ (Prophets ISA.59.11, JPS 1917)↗