The meaning of Earth

noun

A hole or tunnel dug by a small animal, especially a rabbit, as a dwelling.

Usage examples:

Spheniscus species generally use unlined nests in burrows, crevices, caves, or surface scrapes.

verb

(of an animal) make a hole or tunnel, typically for use as a dwelling.

Usage examples:

Moles burrowing away underground

noun

A natural underground chamber in a hillside or cliff.

Usage examples:

The narrow gorge contains a series of prehistoric caves

verb

Explore caves as a sport.

Usage examples:

They say they cave for the adventure, challenge, and physical exercise

exclamation

(among children) look out!

noun

A stiff, sticky fine-grained earth that can be moulded when wet, and is dried and baked to make bricks, pottery, and ceramics.

Usage examples:

The soil is mainly clay

noun

Thick, heavy earth that is soft when wet, and hard when dry or baked

Usage examples:

Clay is used for making bricks and pots.

noun

A lump of earth or clay.

Usage examples:

Frost is essential for breaking up clods into manageable sizes

noun

A wild mammal's hidden home; a lair.

Usage examples:

A female mink had set up her den there

verb

(of a wild animal) live in a den.

Usage examples:

The cubs denned in the late autumn

noun

A substance, such as mud or dust, that soils someone or something.

Usage examples:

Jo wiped the dirt off her face

noun

Earth or a substance like it that has gotten on the surface of something such as your skin

Usage examples:

I sat on the ground and got dirt on my pants., after the rain, the woods smelled of wet dirt and gr…

noun

The earth.

Usage examples:

Goods from all over the globe

verb

Form (something) into a globe.

Usage examples:

There, in miniature, the world was globed like a fruit

noun

The world

Usage examples:

The olympic games will be seen around the globe.

noun

The solid surface of the earth.

Usage examples:

He lay on the ground

verb

Short for ground bass.

adjective

Past and past participle of grind.

noun

The fact of living in a particular place.

Usage examples:

Signs of human habitation

noun

A place used for hiding in or as a retreat from other people.

Usage examples:

Workmen added 4 ft to the top of the 6 ft-high wooden fence round her surrey hideaway to stop pryin…

noun

A place where someone goes when the person wants to relax and get away

Usage examples:

A country hideaway

noun

A hiding place, especially one used by someone who has broken the law.

Usage examples:

The kidnappers did not want their hideout discovered

noun

A secret place where someone can go when the person does not want to be found by other people

Usage examples:

We made our hideout under the bushes.

noun

A small place for hiding things in

noun

A hollow place in a solid body or surface.

Usage examples:

The dog had dug a hole in the ground

verb

Make a hole or holes in.

Usage examples:

A fuel tank was holed by the attack and a fire started

noun

A place where a wild animal, especially a fierce or dangerous one, lives.

Usage examples:

He saw that his dogs had roused a wild boar from its lair

verb

Dress or behave in a flashy manner.

Usage examples:

Some of us laired up in assam silk suits

noun

A place where certain kinds of wild animals live, often underground and hidden, or a place where a person hides

Usage examples:

A fox’s lair, a thieves’ lair

noun

A fertile soil of clay and sand containing humus.

Usage examples:

A soil mixture composed of about 2 parts fertile loam, 1 part leaf mold or peat, and 1 part sand or…

noun

High-quality earth that is a mixture of sand, clay, and decaying plant material

noun

A spherical object or shape.

Usage examples:

A pale orb of hazy reddish light

noun

A celestial body moving in an elliptical orbit round a star.

Usage examples:

Kepler showed that a planet moves round the sun in an elliptical orbit which has the sun in one of …

noun

An extremely large, round mass of matter, such as earth or mars, that moves in a circular path around the sun or another star

Usage examples:

Planetary scientists

verb

(of an army) withdraw from enemy forces as a result of their superior power or after a defeat.

Usage examples:

The french retreated in disarray

noun

An act of moving back or withdrawing.

Usage examples:

A speedy retreat

verb

The act of withdrawing or going backward

noun

The den or burrow of a badger.

Usage examples:

His mother gave birth to him and his brother in a garage in cumbria because all the badger setts ha…

noun

A hole in the ground, often with several passages and different entrances, where a badger or a family of badgers lives

Usage examples:

A badger sett, we recommend granite setts for driveways and larger paved areas.

noun

A small piece of stone that is used with others to make paths, etc.

Usage examples:

We recommend granite setts for driveways and larger paved areas.

noun

A place giving temporary protection from bad weather or danger.

Usage examples:

Huts like this are used as a shelter during the winter

verb

Protect or shield from something harmful, especially bad weather.

Usage examples:

The hut sheltered him from the cold wind

noun

Something that gives protection, such as a building or tent, or the protection provided

Usage examples:

[ c ] we took the stray dog to an animal shelter., [ u ] the wall gave us some shelter from the win…

noun

Fine sand, clay, or other material carried by running water and deposited as a sediment, especially in a channel or harbour.

Usage examples:

Water continuing out over the playa surface carries with it a quantity of fine sand, silt, and clay…

verb

Become filled or blocked with silt.

Usage examples:

The river's mouth had silted up

noun

The surface of the ground, with the grass growing on it; turf.

Usage examples:

Underneath the sod was a layer of humus

verb

Cover with sods or pieces of turf.

Usage examples:

The stadium has been sodded

verb

Used to express one's anger or annoyance at someone or something.

noun

The upper layer of earth in which plants grow, a black or dark brown material typically consisting of a mixture of organic remains, clay, and rock particles.

Usage examples:

Blueberries need very acid soil

verb

Make dirty.

Usage examples:

He might soil his expensive suit

noun

Waste matter, especially sewage containing excrement.

Usage examples:

Hazardous waste includes contaminated soil, paint, solvent residues, asbestos and highly acidic and…

noun

A round solid figure, or its surface, with every point on its surface equidistant from its centre.

Usage examples:

There's a particularly good 3d objects tool, which lets you create modelled spheres, cubes, rectang…

verb

Enclose in or as if in a sphere.

Usage examples:

Mourners, sphered by their dark garb

combining form

Denoting a structure or region of spherical form, especially a region round the earth.

Usage examples:

Ionosphere

noun

A stretch of land, especially with regard to its physical features.

Usage examples:

They were delayed by rough terrain

noun

An area of land, esp. when considering its natural features

Usage examples:

Rugged mountain terrain

noun

The top layer of soil.

Usage examples:

Keep all the topsoil you remove; you're bound to find a use for it later!

noun

The layer of earth in which plants grow

Usage examples:

Rich topsoil

noun

An artificial underground passage, especially one built through a hill or under a building, road, or river.

Usage examples:

A road tunnel through the pyrenees

verb

Short for wind tunnel.

noun

Grass and the surface layer of earth held together by its roots.

Usage examples:

They walked across the springy turf

verb

Force (someone) to leave somewhere.

Usage examples:

They were turfed off the bus

noun

A network of interconnecting rabbit burrows.

Usage examples:

Its interest is that within it survive all the elements of a medieval forest: great timber trees, c…

proper noun

An industrial city in south-eastern michigan, north of detroit; population 133,939 (est. 2008).

proper noun

An industrial city in north-eastern ohio, on the river mahoning; population 43,789 (est. 2008).

noun

The earth, together with all of its countries and peoples.

Usage examples:

He was doing his bit to save the world

noun

The planet on which human life has developed, esp. including all people and their ways of life

Usage examples:

People from all over the world will be attending the conference., the rapid growth of computers has…

noun

A particular area of activity

Usage examples:

Our world of work is changing rapidly., the world of advertising/the internet, the business/corpora…