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Earth

noun

1.

The 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on. Synonyms: globe, world. "He sailed around the world"

2.

The loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface. Synonym: ground.

3.

The solid part of the earth's surface. Synonyms: dry land, ground, land, solid ground, terra firma. "The earth shook for several minutes" , "He dropped the logs on the ground"

4.

The abode of mortals (as contrasted with Heaven or Hell).

5.

Once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles).

6.

The concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife. Synonyms: earthly concern, world, worldly concern.

7.

A connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage). Synonym: ground.

verb

(past & past part. earthed; pres. part. earthing)

1.

Hide in the earth like a hunted animal.

2.

Connect to the earth.

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"Earth" Quotes from Famous Books

... regions in all our country. Lofty peaks warn back the most daring explorer. Few have ever ventured to attempt to go among them. Some never came back, they say. The superstitious declare those mountains are filled with evil things. Nothing on earth could tempt one of my peons to accompany ...

— The Aeroplane Boys on the Wing - Aeroplane Chums in the Tropics • John Luther Langworthy

... Elijah slit his throat and throw him in the riffer. Then he say: "Bring his brother!" and they bring his brother, and he slit his throat and throw him in the riffer ... till they was ALL gone. Then Elijah clean his knife down in the earth, and when he'd finished laughin' he put ...

— Oriental Encounters - Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 • Marmaduke Pickthall

... me! It's my old man," said the ogre's wife; "what on earth shall I do? Come along quick and jump in here." And she bundled Jack into the oven just as ...

— Types of Children's Literature • Edited by Walter Barnes

... minutes it proceeds to destroy its personal beauty by throwing clouds of dust upon its back, which, adhering to the moisture occasioned by its recent bath, converts the late clean animal into a brown mound of earth. ...

— Wild Beasts and their Ways • Sir Samuel W. Baker

... be blessed who kept well the faith, and that it carried with it all help and consolation, and yet many there were, said he, who kept it but ill. "This is no proper usage which has obtained here in Greenland since Christianity was introduced here, to inter men in unconsecrated earth, with nought but a brief funeral service. It is my wish that I be conveyed to the church, together with the others who have died here; Gard, however, I would have you burn upon a pyre, as speedily as possible, since he has been the cause of all ...

— The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 • Various

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