grass

See also: Grass

grass - English

Noun

grass (countable and uncountable, plural grasses)

  1. (countable, uncountable) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
    • Synonyms: see grass
  2. (countable) Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
  3. (uncountable) A lawn.
  4. (uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
    • Synonyms: see marijuana
  5. (countable, Britain, slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
    • Synonyms: see informant
    • What just happened must remain secret. Don't be a grass.
  6. (uncountable, physics) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
  7. (uncountable, slang) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
  8. The season of fresh grass; spring or summer.
  9. (obsolete, figurative) That which is transitory.
  10. (countable, folk etymology) Asparagus; "sparrowgrass".
  11. (mining) The surface of a mine.

Derived terms

Terms derived from grass (noun)

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Verb

grass (third-person singular simple present grasses, present participle grassing, simple past and past participle grassed)

  1. (transitive) To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
  2. (transitive or intransitive, slang) To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.
    • Synonyms: see rat out
  3. (transitive) To cover with grass or with turf.
  4. (transitive) To feed with grass.
  5. (transitive) To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
  6. (transitive) To bring to the grass or ground; to land.

Translations

  • Bulgarian: затревявам (bg) (zatrevjavam)
  • Finnish: nurmettaa (fi)
  • French: enherber (fr)

grass - Cimbrian

Alternative forms

Noun

grass m

  1. (Luserna, Tredici Comuni) grass

grass - Lombard

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ɡras/
    • IPA: [ɡras] (Eastern, Western)
    • IPA: [ɡraʰ] (Brescian, Bergamasque)

Adjective

grass m (masculine plural grass, feminine singular grassa, feminine plural grasse)

  1. fat, thick

Noun

grass

  1. fat, grease

grass - Romansch

Noun

grass m

  1. fat
Meaning and Definition of grass
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