Advantage given or gained in any contest; e.g. in football, chess, debate or academic discourse.

A place suited to a specified activity.

• a forest traditionally used as a hunting-ground
• I gather from your last answer that at the present time the constabulary, to a certain extent, is good recruiting ground for the army?

The plain surface upon which the figures of an artistic composition are set.

• crimson flowers on a white ground
• […] to pad a piece in diluted acetate of alumine to obtain a pale lemon ground […]

A flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief.

The net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied.

• Brussels ground

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.

architectureOne 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.

A soccer stadium.

• Manchester United's ground is known as Old Trafford.

businesselectrical-engineeringelectricityAn electrical conductor connected to the earth, or a large conductor whose electrical potential is taken as zero (such as a steel chassis).

• А ground may be undesirable, inadvertent, or accidental path taken by an electrical current; or it may be the deliberate provision of conductors well connected to the ground by means of plates buried therein, or similar device.

businesselectrical-engineeringelectricityElectric shock.

ball-gamescricketgamesThe 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 (hence to make one's ground).

entertainmentlifestylemusicA composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a varying melody.

entertainmentlifestylemusicThe tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.

• Buck[ingham] The Mayor is here at hand; pretend ſome fear, // Be not you ſpoke with, but by mighty ſuit; // And look you get a prayer-book in your hand, // And ſtand between two churchmen, good my lord, // For on that ground I’ll build a holy deſcant: // And be not eaſily won to our requeſts: // Play the maid’s part, ſtill anſwer nay, and take it.

The pit of a theatre.

• the understanding gentlemen o' the ground here ask'd my judgment

obsoleteSynonym of munny (“land measure”).

• It is sub-divided into annas (or 16ths), of 3,600 square feet each; or when the land is for building purposes, into grounds (munnies) of 1/24 of a cawny each, as in the town of Madras.

To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed.

• The ship grounded on the bar.

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
• So far from warranting any inference to the existence of a God, would, on the contrary, ground even an argument to his negation.

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.

To improve or focus the mental or emotional state of.

• I ground myself with meditation.

To complement a machine learning model with relevant information it was not trained on.

• We design WikiChat (Figure 1) to ground LLMs using Wikipedia to achieve the following objectives. While LLMs tend to hallucinate, our chatbot should be factual.
• But the technology has evolved rapidly over the past year or so. Today’s systems can incorporate real-time search and use increasingly sophisticated methods for “grounding”—connecting AI outputs to specific, verifiable knowledge and sourced analysis.