Definitions for grass
grɑsgrass

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. grassnoun

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

2. Grass, Gunter Grass, Gunter Wilhelm Grassnoun

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

3. supergrass, grassnoun

   a police informer who implicates many people

4. eatage, forage, pasture, pasturage, grassnoun

   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 Janeverb

   street names for marijuana

6. grassverb

   shoot down, of birds

7. grassverb

   cover with grass

   "The owners decided to grass their property"

8. grassverb

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

9. grass, grass oververb

   cover with grass

10. grassverb

    feed with grass

11. denounce, tell on, betray, give away, rat, grass, shit, shop, snitch, stagverb

    give away information about somebody

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

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. grassnoun

   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. grassnoun

   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. grassnoun

   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. grassnoun

   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. grassnoun

   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. grassnoun

   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. grassverb

   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. grassverb

   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. Grassnoun

   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. Grassnoun

   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. Grassnoun

   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. Grassnoun

   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. Grassverb

   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. Grassverb

   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. Grassverb

   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. Grassverb

   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. grassnoun

   See marijuana. "But I smoke 'em like grass, just like Cheech and Chong" -- Dr. Dre (Keep Their Heads Ringin')

2. grassnoun

   Someone who informs the police.

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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.

Matched Categories

1. • Cover
   • Fodder
   • Gramineous Plant
   • Graze
   • Informer
   • Shoot
   • Spread Out
   • Writer

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?

1. Alex

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

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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. Roger Quarles Mills:

   Prohibition was introduced as a fraud; it has been nursed as a fraud. It is wrapped in the livery of Heaven, but it comes to serve the devil. It comes to regulate by law our appetites and our daily lives. It comes to tear down liberty and build up fanaticism, hypocrisy, and intolerance. It comes to confiscate by legislative decree the property of many of our fellow citizens. It comes to send spies, detectives, and informers into our homes; to have us arrested and carried before courts and condemned to fines and imprisonments. It comes to dissipate the sunlight of happiness, peace, and prosperity in which we are now living and to fill our land with alienations, estrangements, and bitterness. It comes to bring us evil - only evil - and that continually. Let us rise in our might as one and overwhelm it with such indignation that we shall never hear of it again as long as grass grows and water runs.

2. Kahlil Gibran:

   Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.

3. Joseph Conrad:

   Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.

4. African Proverb:

   When elephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

5. David L. Bonar:

   The grass looks greener on the other side of the fence because you don't have to mow it. - David L. Bonar, First said by me circ. September 26, 1992 (about age 50).

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