Definitions for grass
grɑsgrass

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1. grass(noun)

   narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay

2. Grass, Gunter Grass, Gunter Wilhelm Grass(noun)

   German writer of novels and poetry and plays (born 1927)

3. supergrass, grass(noun)

   a police informer who implicates many people

4. eatage, forage, pasture, pasturage, grass(noun)

   bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle

5. pot, grass, green goddess, dope, weed, gage, sess, sens, smoke, skunk, locoweed, Mary Jane(verb)

   street names for marijuana

6. grass(verb)

   shoot down, of birds

7. grass(verb)

   cover with grass

   "The owners decided to grass their property"

8. grass(verb)

   spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach

9. grass, grass over(verb)

   cover with grass

10. grass(verb)

    feed with grass

11. denounce, tell on, betray, give away, rat, grass, shit, shop, snitch, stag(verb)

    give away information about somebody

    "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam"

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1. grass(Noun)

   Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem, wrap around it for a distance, and leave, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.

   Etymology: græs, from grasan (compare gers, gras, Gras, græs, gräs), from gʰreH₁- 'to grow'. Non Germanic cognates include Latin , Albanian grath. Related to grow and green.

2. grass(Noun)

   A lawn.

   Etymology: græs, from grasan (compare gers, gras, Gras, græs, gräs), from gʰreH₁- 'to grow'. Non Germanic cognates include Latin , Albanian grath. Related to grow and green.

3. grass(Noun)

   Marijuana.

   Etymology: græs, from grasan (compare gers, gras, Gras, græs, gräs), from gʰreH₁- 'to grow'. Non Germanic cognates include Latin , Albanian grath. Related to grow and green.

4. grass(Noun)

   An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.

   Etymology: græs, from grasan (compare gers, gras, Gras, græs, gräs), from gʰreH₁- 'to grow'. Non Germanic cognates include Latin , Albanian grath. Related to grow and green.

5. grass(Noun)

   Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.

   Etymology: græs, from grasan (compare gers, gras, Gras, græs, gräs), from gʰreH₁- 'to grow'. Non Germanic cognates include Latin , Albanian grath. Related to grow and green.

6. grass(Noun)

   Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.

   Etymology: græs, from grasan (compare gers, gras, Gras, græs, gräs), from gʰreH₁- 'to grow'. Non Germanic cognates include Latin , Albanian grath. Related to grow and green.

7. grass(Verb)

   To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).

   Etymology: græs, from grasan (compare gers, gras, Gras, græs, gräs), from gʰreH₁- 'to grow'. Non Germanic cognates include Latin , Albanian grath. Related to grow and green.

8. grass(Verb)

   To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.

   Etymology: græs, from grasan (compare gers, gras, Gras, græs, gräs), from gʰreH₁- 'to grow'. Non Germanic cognates include Latin , Albanian grath. Related to grow and green.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Grass(noun)

   popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts; pasture

   Etymology: [OE. gras, gres, gers, AS, grs, grs; akin to OFries. gres, gers, OS., D., G., Icel., & Goth. gras, Dan. grs, Sw. grs, and prob. to E. green, grow. Cf. Graze.]

2. Grass(noun)

   an endogenous plant having simple leaves, a stem generally jointed and tubular, the husks or glumes in pairs, and the seed single

   Etymology: [OE. gras, gres, gers, AS, grs, grs; akin to OFries. gres, gers, OS., D., G., Icel., & Goth. gras, Dan. grs, Sw. grs, and prob. to E. green, grow. Cf. Graze.]

3. Grass(noun)

   the season of fresh grass; spring

   Etymology: [OE. gras, gres, gers, AS, grs, grs; akin to OFries. gres, gers, OS., D., G., Icel., & Goth. gras, Dan. grs, Sw. grs, and prob. to E. green, grow. Cf. Graze.]

4. Grass(noun)

   metaphorically used for what is transitory

   Etymology: [OE. gras, gres, gers, AS, grs, grs; akin to OFries. gres, gers, OS., D., G., Icel., & Goth. gras, Dan. grs, Sw. grs, and prob. to E. green, grow. Cf. Graze.]

5. Grass(verb)

   to cover with grass or with turf

   Etymology: [OE. gras, gres, gers, AS, grs, grs; akin to OFries. gres, gers, OS., D., G., Icel., & Goth. gras, Dan. grs, Sw. grs, and prob. to E. green, grow. Cf. Graze.]

6. Grass(verb)

   to expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc

   Etymology: [OE. gras, gres, gers, AS, grs, grs; akin to OFries. gres, gers, OS., D., G., Icel., & Goth. gras, Dan. grs, Sw. grs, and prob. to E. green, grow. Cf. Graze.]

7. Grass(verb)

   to bring to the grass or ground; to land; as, to grass a fish

   Etymology: [OE. gras, gres, gers, AS, grs, grs; akin to OFries. gres, gers, OS., D., G., Icel., & Goth. gras, Dan. grs, Sw. grs, and prob. to E. green, grow. Cf. Graze.]

8. Grass(verb)

   to produce grass

   Etymology: [OE. gras, gres, gers, AS, grs, grs; akin to OFries. gres, gers, OS., D., G., Icel., & Goth. gras, Dan. grs, Sw. grs, and prob. to E. green, grow. Cf. Graze.]

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1. Grass

   Grasses, or more technically graminoids, are monocotyledonous, usually herbaceous plants with narrow leaves growing from the base. They include the "true grasses", of the family Poaceae, as well as the sedges and the rushes. The true grasses include cereals, bamboo and the grasses of lawns and grassland. Sedges include many wild marsh and grassland plants, and some cultivated ones such as water chestnut and papyrus sedge. Uses for graminoids include food, drink, pasture for livestock, thatch, paper, fuel, clothing, insulation, construction, sports turf, basket weaving and many others.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Grass

   gras, n. common herbage: an order of plants (Gramineæ), the most important in the whole vegetable kingdom, with long, narrow leaves and tubular stem, including wheat, rye, oats, rice, millet, and all those which supply food for nearly all graminivorous animals: short for asparagus—sparrow-grass: time of grass, spring or summer: the surface of a mine.—v.t. to cover with grass: to feed with grass: to bring to the grass or ground, as a bird or a fish—(various perennial fodder grasses are timothy, fox-tail, cock's-foot, and the fescue grasses, Italian rye-grass, &c.).—ns. Grass′-Cloth, a name applied to different kinds of coarse cloth, the fibre of which is rarely that of a grass, esp. to the Chinese summer-cloth made from Bœhmeria nivea, which is really a nettle; Grass′-cut′ter, one of the attendants on an Indian army, whose work is to provide provender for the baggage-cattle; Grass′er, an extra or temporary worker in a printing-office.—adjs. Grass′-green, green with grass: green as grass; Grass′-grown, grown over with grass.—ns. Grass′hopper, a saltatorial, orthopterous insect, nearly allied to locusts and crickets, keeping quiet during the day among vegetation, but noisy at night; Grass′iness; Grass′ing, the exposing of linen in fields to air and light for bleaching purposes; Grass′-land, permanent pasture; Grass′-oil, a name under which several volatile oils derived from widely different plants are grouped; Grass′-plot, a plot of grassy ground; Grass′-tree, a genus of Australian plants, with shrubby stems, tufts of long wiry foliage at the summit, and a tall flower-stalk, with a dense cylindrical spike of small flowers; Grass′-wid′ow, a wife temporarily separated from her husband, often also a divorced woman, or one deserted by her husband; Grass′-wrack, the eel-grass growing abundantly on the sea-coast.—adj. Grass′y, covered with or resembling grass, green.—Go to grass, to be turned out to pasture, esp. of a horse too old to work: to go into retirement, to rusticate: to fall violently (of a pugilist); Let the grass grow under one's feet, to loiter, linger.—Spanish grass (see Esparto). [A.S. gærs, græs; Ice., Ger., Dut., and Goth. gras; prob. allied to green and grow.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. grass

   A term applied to vegetables in general. (See FEED OF GRASS.)

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1. grass

   A type of cultivar, plant and seed.

   There are thousands of plants that are classified as grass.

   Submitted by MaryC on January 26, 2016  

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1. grass

   The grass symbol -- In this Symbols.com article you will learn about the meaning of the grass symbol and its characteristic.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'grass' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2580

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'grass' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1948

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'grass' in Nouns Frequency: #1024

How to pronounce grass?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

How to say grass in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of grass in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of grass in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of grass in a Sentence

1. Sienna Miller:

   I sabotaged things. I burnt a lot of bridges, i was really naive, I think. Not green as grass — I was by no means an innocent — but I had faith in the goodness of everyone. I was very open. And that led me into all sorts of situations that backfired.

2. Charles M. Schulz:

   Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.

3. Victor Hugo:

   Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows.

4. Travis Mills:

   Look, Travis Mills Foundation’s really grass roots up here, our big donors are $ 500,000 and we have our small donors of $ 1.37 that they found in their 1980s Cutlass and it’s a grandmother from Las Vegas that was just like : ‘ This is all I have. Hopefully, it will help.We really appreciate what you’re doing. ’ And she sends that in the mail to us, so donations help.

5. Master Sgt. David Royer:

   After the incident was over I was pretty calm, but when I got home I just wanted to get everything back to normal -- get to my kids, give them a hug and then I mowed my grass, ate dinner and spent time with my family.

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