| earth | (noun) a connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage) | Synonyms: ground |
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| (noun) the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife | Synonyms: earthly concern, world, worldly concern |
| (noun) the abode of mortals (as contrasted with Heaven or Hell) | Synonyms: Earth |
| (noun) the solid part of the earth's surface | Synonyms: dry land, ground, land, solid ground, terra firma |
| (noun) the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on | Synonyms: Earth, globe, world |
| (noun) the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface | Synonyms: ground |
| (noun) once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles), associated with the humour black bile | - |
| (verb) connect to the earth | - |
| (verb) hide in the earth like a hunted animal | - |
| earthball | (noun) any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles | Synonyms: false truffle, hard-skinned puffball, puffball |
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| earthborn | (adjective) connected with earthly life; of earthly origin | - |
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| (adjective) springing from or born on the earth | - |
| (adjective) of earthly origin (as mortals are) | - |
| earthbound | (adjective) confined to the earth | - |
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| (adjective) lacking wit or imagination | Synonyms: pedestrian, prosaic, prosy |
| earthen | (adjective) made of earth (or baked clay) | - |
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| earthenware | (noun) ceramic ware made of porous clay fired at low heat | - |
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| earthing | (noun) fastening electrical equipment to earth | Synonyms: grounding |
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| earthlike | (adjective) earth colored; of something having a color of soil or earth | - |
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| (adjective) resembling or characteristic of earth | - |
| earthling | (noun) an inhabitant of the earth | Synonyms: earthman, tellurian, worldling |
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| earthly | (adjective) of or belonging to or characteristic of this earth as distinguished from heaven | - |
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| earthman | (noun) an inhabitant of the earth | Synonyms: earthling, tellurian, worldling |
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| earthnut | (noun) edible subterranean fungus of the genus Tuber | Synonyms: truffle |
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| (noun) pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms | Synonyms: goober, goober pea, groundnut, monkey nut, peanut |
| (noun) a common European plant having edible tubers with the flavor of roasted chestnuts | Synonyms: Conopodium denudatum |
| (noun) any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber; grow naturally in southwestern Europe | Synonyms: earth-ball, truffle |
| earthquake | (noun) shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane or from volcanic activity | Synonyms: quake, seism, temblor |
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| (noun) a disturbance that is extremely disruptive | - |
| earthshaking | (adjective) loud enough to shake the very earth | - |
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| (adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world | Synonyms: world-shaking, world-shattering |
| earthstar | (noun) any fungus of the family Geastraceae; in form suggesting a puffball whose outer peridium splits into the shape of a star | - |
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| earthtongue | (noun) any club-shaped fungus of the genus Geoglossum | Synonyms: earth-tongue |
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| earthwork | (noun) an earthen rampart | - |
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| earthworm | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: angleworm, crawler, dew worm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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| earthy | (adjective) of or consisting of or resembling earth | - |
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| (adjective) conspicuously and tastelessly indecent | Synonyms: crude, gross, vulgar |
| (adjective) not far removed from or suggestive of nature | - |
| (adjective) sensible and practical | Synonyms: down-to-earth |
| (adjective) hearty and lusty | - |