English Dictionary

grass

/ɡɹɑːs/

noun

(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.

The grass in the park is green.

意味（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.

Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. / For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. / Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. / In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

意味（2）

(countable) Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.

意味（3）

(uncountable) A lawn.

意味（4）

(uncountable, slang) Marijuana.

Jojo left his home in Tucson, Arizona / For some California grass

意味（5）

(countable, Britain, slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.

He was a grass and an arse lick and he didn't do it for him, he did it for his brother, because if Vaughan had hit him especially with his mallet, Mark was the kind of lowlife that would have pressed charges and then that's a whole different problem.

意味（6）

(uncountable, physics) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.

意味（7）

(uncountable, slang) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.

The problem in radar detection is to have a signal to noise ratio that will allow the echo to be seen through the grass on the radar screen. The use of a long pulse allows a greater average signal strength to be returned in the target echoes.

意味（8）

The season of fresh grass; spring or summer.

意味（9）

(obsolete, figuratively) That which is transitory.

Surely the people is grass.

意味（10）

(countable, folk etymology) Asparagus; "sparrowgrass".

'Have ready a hundred of ſmall graſs boiled, then ſave tops enough to ſtick the rolls with, the reſt cut ſmall and put into the cream, fill the loaves with them.'

意味（11）

(mining) The surface of a mine.