GRASS

Meaning of GRASS in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

artificial grass

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artificial grass tennis courts

dry grass

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There had been no rain and the grass was very dry.

grass court

grass roots

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We are hoping for full participation at grass roots level.

grass seed

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You can sprinkle grass seed over any gaps in the lawn.

grass snake

lemon grass

pampas grass

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

coarse

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Conversion to grassland also explains much of the loss of healthy shrubs, coarse grasses , cotton grass and rushes.

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There was no food but coarse grass and even the grass was mixed with bitter rushes and docks.

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Inland, the hills were fixed now under their carpet of coarse heath grass , gorse and small flowers.

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He wanted to idle along the embankments and see the flowers growing in the coarse grass .

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They came out of the wood into a bare field where coarse grass lapped limply around their ankles.

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It was sewn with coarse grass and carefully mended with leather patches stitched on with the same coarse grass.

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The only vegetation was scrubby trees and patches of coarse grass .

dry

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Lastly, put some dry leaves and grasses into the box, filling it about a quarter full.

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The prairie seed mix was dry and fluffy-like grass seed.

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The wind scored shivering channels through the ling and bilberries, the growth of fine, dry grass .

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A flame leapt out unexpectedly, caught on some dry grass , and raced across a half-dead meadow with frightening speed.

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He was magnificent, larger even than I had expected, looking almost red against the pale dry grass .

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At the top of the banks some thin, dry grass clung to life.

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Evening had begun to settle down, and he was walking along a narrow path of dry grass , towards the buildings.

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Some dry leaves or grass scattered at the base of the pit will provide the ferret with some comfort.

green

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The green little grasses now tenderly wave O'er the green little chemist's green little grave.

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It is exhilarating, like the first glimpse of green grass when entering a baseball stadium.

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The warriors always accompany them when they must travel long distances to find green grass .

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The tree limbs were covered with leaves and the green grass cushioned the sapphire blue of the sky.

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Their presence, particularly under a lawn, is betrayed by the worm casts which are easily spotted between the green grass .

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All eyes and ears for greener grass .

long

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Lopped off brambles lay around and the long grass was all trampled.

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The cat was creeping stealthily through a patch of long grass towards the foot of the largest tree.

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I sat on it and smoked a cigarette before falling asleep in the long grass .

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It's water-resistance had a fair testing in long wet grass and stream wading.

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This one had not bloomed and its flat spread of leaves was almost hidden under the long grass .

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There was a sudden flurry in the long grass .

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Bigwig and Hawkbit chased each other through the long grass .

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I am here, Lord Frith, I am running through the long grass .

rough

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Now they were stumbling into the front row of people, on to rough grass .

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He'd got a small garden fork and he started taking out rough bits of grass from the edge of the drive.

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Dougal stepped softly over the rough grass towards the gazebo.

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The road, which was narrow, was separated from a low cliff by a stretch of rough grass .

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Chill softness brushed his back as he slid into the rough grass .

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Good for utility lawns and keeping rough grass under control.

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I thrust into rough grass and smoothly penetrated your loamy depths.

short

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This is a large species of eagle owl, hunting the large gerbil that lives on the short grass plains of Serengeti.

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Outside, as we drank, the animals grazed in the short grass that blanketed the hills.

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There was shorter grass up here, and the ground curved -.

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He admired the sycamores, rising like important ideas from pedestrian plots of short grass .

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Clippings are easily collected, but these mowers only work efficiently on reasonably short grass .

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Just little puffs of sand in the short grass .

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The box can be left off when cutting short grass , so that clippings mulch the lawn.

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Tired of it all, he sat down on the thin, wet, short grass .

tall

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Water trickled from the brown earth near the roots of the bush and traced a dark line through the tall grass .

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Weedy thickets and tall grass grew under occasional trees.

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Gazzer crawled up the bank and lay down in the tall grass , pole-axed by fatigue.

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Miguel drove into the tall grass with a loud crunch.

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The tall , tough grass that covered them ruffled and flattened with the wind, like a cat's fur being stroked.

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We thought the nice tall , soft grass behind the berm would be a good place to sleep.

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A cricket chirruped suddenly in the tall grass by his ear.

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Next to the cemetery was a large pond covered with moss and tall grass crowned with silver blossoms.

wet

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The wet grass glittered and near-by a nut-tree sparkled iridescent, winking and gleaming as its branches moved in the light wind.

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His foot slipped on the wet grass and he fell.

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It slithered for a few feet on the wet grass .

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Bigwig jumped down from the bank into the field and ran in a long curve across the wet grass .

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Presently she heard footsteps slipping on the wet grass , and then one of the doors groaned open.

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She clasped it, landing at the foot of the dune with her face in the wet grass .

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Finlayson half-turned, ducked under the flying bottle, slipped on the wet grass , and fell.

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It's water-resistance had a fair testing in long wet grass and stream wading.

■ NOUN

court

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The Wimbledon champion has accepted a wild card entry for the grass court event in Halle.

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Summer approaches and with it comes the summer grass court season, your chance to see the best players in the world.

lemon

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These have a full complement of hot peppers, lime and lemon grass , as well as rich coconut milk or coconut itself.

snake

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Although I've been looking out for grass snakes , I haven't found one since moving here until today.

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A grass snake swimming obligingly from island to bank in full view of watchers.

verge

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Then the vans were manoeuvred on to the grass verge so that the new vehicle could come by.

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He thought he must have passed out on the grass verge .

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The accident happened on a busy dual carriageway when the transporter hit a grass verge and landed on top of one of the cars.

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It hit a grass verge and virtually took off.

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The man was standing on the grass verge watching her.

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Often it was not, and the grass verge was very much wider on one side than the other.

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A battalion of infantry that was marching towards the cabriolet shuffled on to the grass verge .

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The car lurched to the right, mounted the grass verge , and ploughed through the safety barrier.

■ VERB

cover

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The floor was undulating, covered in grass and a few patches of exposed rock.

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My unit was in a large field covered mostly with elephant grass .

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If such soil as this is covered in grass , after a few years of grazing it degrades into desert.

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Twenty-foot drifts filled the valleys and swales, covering whatever frozen grass was left to eat.

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The valley from the hill to the massif was all flat plains covered with elephant grass .

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Riker flew to the lone hill covered with tall brown grass and a few small trees.

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For the most part, the land was covered with grass .

cut

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The object was further testing of the radiometer using different illumination levels and cut grass subjects.

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Mulchers cut and recut the grass clippings so that they virtually disappear within the lawn.

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You ask me to cut grass and make hay and sell it and be rich like white men.

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The lawn had been freshly cut , some grass raked into piles on the front walk.

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We cut grass with a ride-on mower and dead head if not growing for seed.

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Quentin Featherston cut the grass of the rectory lawns again.

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We won't be able to cut the grass the week after next, as I'd hoped.

eat

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Cattle eat grass , and might therefore be thought of as enemies of grass.

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Horses and donkeys eat grass and roots, which we have: tractors eat petrol, which we don't have.

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Grazing cattle and sheep eat contaminated grass and plants, while fish eat plankton that has already consumed dioxin-covered microscopic particles.

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And please keep your butties to yourself and let the sheep eat grass as nature intended.

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A large carthorse stood drowsily eating something in the grass .

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Zulfikar Bhutto vowed that if necessary his country would eat grass to build its own bomb.

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And the fox and the rabbit were friends and they both ate grass .

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Then they became bored, and went back to eating the grass .

grow

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He wanted to idle along the embankments and see the flowers growing in the coarse grass .

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You get a little extra for irrigation and you can grow some grass on it.

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Plead for their help in working out how to grow grass successfully.

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We let the day grow old along the grass .

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How do rainfall and the height of land seem to affect the choice of areas where farmers grow grass ?

lie

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A broken-off piece of castle lay in the grass nearby.

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I lay down on the grass .

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Creed tripped over something lying in the grass and even his head-over-heels tumble seemed lazy and unreal.

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I felt so bad for this human being lying there in the grass with his life ebbing from him.

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She lay on the grass , beside him, and looked up at the blue sky.

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I was lying in the grass in front of the house.

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I saw him lying in the grass with a set-square and pencil.

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When it was hot, we all lay around in the grass and talked about stuff.

play

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That's a real professional, a player who plays all surfaces: grass , clay, hard courts.

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Little kids as barefoot as any in 1840 played in the trodden-down grass .

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They used to play on grass .

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He was forbidden to play on the grass .

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An assortment of small children played around the signs that asked them not to play on the grass .

sit

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When the trench was completed Willie sat on the grass to watch the others fix the Anderson shelter inside it.

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I sat down on the grass and just started looking around.

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I saw them there, and they sat on the grass , and the day was white, and they disappeared.

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We were embarrassing each other, so we stopped talking and sat on the sandy grass and smoked a cigarette.

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He sits on the grass lacing stiff boots into a wreath of effort and breath.

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I sit in the grass at the side of the track, rubbing the skinned ankle.

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Setting his spear aside, he sat down on the grass .

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

blade of grass

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And when he looked at the blades of grass he saw that they were only blades of grass.

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But every drop that fell contained the promise of another leaf, another blossom, another blade of grass in the spring.

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Similar lumps had been spread there before, and showed as bleached-out mounds through which a few blades of grass grew.

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The larvae of red worms crawl up the blades of grass and are eaten by horses.

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There was not a breath of wind blowing, and not a leaf or blade of grass stirred.

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They had stripped the lower forest of anything resembling a leaf or blade of grass.

new-mown hay/grass etc

the grass roots

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a grassroots campaign

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The decisions were taken by the party leadership without consulting the grass roots.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

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I wouldn't inform on you -- I'm no grass .

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Please keep off the grass .

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wild grasses

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

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Bulbs for naturalising in grass are usually sold in bulk, sometimes in mixtures.

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Early next morning, before breakfast, they crossed the grass leaving a dark trail of foot prints in the dew.

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Grama grasses are what the fifty million buffalo ate.

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I sat down in the long grass , puzzled to understand my weakness.

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Others were milling around on the grass to no apparent purpose.

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There was shorter grass up here, and the ground curved -.

II. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

over

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Apple trees require plenty of potash and nitrogen, especially if the area is grassed over .

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Tidy up: A demolition site in a Wear Valley village is to be tidied and grassed over .