earth
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Is earth a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (uncountable) Soil.Examples: "This is good earth for growing potatoes."uncountable
2. (uncountable) Any general rock-based material.Examples: "She sighed when the plane's wheels finally touched earth."uncountable
3. (British) A connection electrically to the earth ((US) ground); on equipment: a terminal connected in that manner.Britishcountableuncountable
4. (metonymic) The people on the globe.Examples: "And the whole earth was of one language, and of one ſpeach."countablemetonymicallyuncountable
5. (archaic) The human body.archaiccountableuncountable
6. (alchemy, philosophy and Taoism) The aforementioned soil- or rock-based material, considered one of the four or five classical elements.countableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (UK, transitive) To connect electrically to the earth.Examples: "That noise is because the amplifier is not properly earthed."Synonyms: groundUKtransitive
2. (transitive) To bury.Examples: "The Miſer earths his Treaſure; and the Thief, / Watching the Mole, half-beggars him ere Morn."transitive
3. (transitive) To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den.Examples: "[…]the Fox is earth’d,[…]"; "This is the time that the horseman are flung out, not having the cry to lead them to the death. When quadruped animals of the venery or hunting kind are at rest, the stag is said to be harboured, the buck lodged, the fox kennelled, the badger earthed, the otter vented or watched, the hare formed, and the rabbit set."transitive
4. (intransitive) To burrow.Examples: "foxes earth'd"intransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary