English words for 'Toward the earth.'
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noun
- The planet Earth.
- A spherical model of Earth or other planet.
- A land snail of the genus Mesodon.
- A circular military formation used in Ancient Rome, corresponding to the modern infantry square.
- A part of a device, often a lamp.
- (medicine) The eyeball.
- (slang, quite uncommon, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast or buttock, whichever is more prominent.
- an object with a spherical shape
- a sphere on which a map (especially of the earth) is represented
verb
adj
- of this earth
- situated between the earth and the moon
- Of or relating to the material world (as opposed to clerical, sacred, or spiritual); ephemeral, temporal, worldly.
- (chiefly historical) Situated beneath the moon; specifically, between the moon and the earth.
- (figurative) Inferior, subordinate.
- In or of this world (as opposed to heaven, etc.); earthly, terrestrial.
noun
adj
- of this earth
- operating or living or growing on land
- of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants
- concerned with the world or worldly matters
- of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air
- Of, relating to, or composed of land or earth.
- (broadcasting) Broadcast using radio waves as opposed to satellite or cable.
- (Mormonism) Of or pertaining to the second highest degree of glory.
- (astronomy) Of a planet, being composed primarily of silicate rocks or metals; see also terrestrial planet.
- Concerned with the world or worldly matters.
- Living or growing in or on land (as opposed to other habitat); not aquatic, etc.
- Of, relating to, or inhabiting the land of the Earth or its inhabitants, earthly.
noun
noun
- the act of coming down to the earth (or other surface)
- the act of coming to land after a voyage
- an intermediate platform in a staircase
- structure providing a place where boats can land people or goods
- A place on a shoreline where a boat lands.
- (in the plural) The amount of fish caught, as in a specific area or on a particular expedition.
- A level area at the top of a flight of stairs, or connecting one flight with another.
- An arrival at a surface, as of an airplane or any descending object.
verb
noun
noun
- the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet
- The visible horizontal line (in all directions) where the sky appears to meet the earth in the distance.
- a specific layer or stratum of soil or subsoil in a vertical cross section of land
- the great circle on the celestial sphere whose plane passes through the sensible horizon and the center of the Earth
- the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated
- Any level line or surface.
- (computer chess) The point at which a computer chess algorithm stops searching for further moves.
- (figuratively) The range or limit of one's knowledge, experience or interest; a boundary or threshold.
- (archaeology, chiefly US) A cultural sub-period or level within a more encompassing time period.
- The range or limit of any dimension in which one exists.
- (geology) A specific layer of soil, or stratum
noun
- the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet
- the outline of objects seen against the sky
- (databases) Ellipsis of skyline operator.
- A path of movement, especially military movement, producing a silhouette above terrain features visible from the location of likely observers.
- The line that seems to be the boundary of the sky and the ground; the horizon.
- The horizontal silhouette of a city or building against the sky.
- (journalism) A panel on the front page of a newspaper outlining some of the features to be found inside.
verb
verb
noun
- the solid part of the earth's surface
- a connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage)
- the abode of mortals (as contrasted with Heaven or Hell)
- once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles), associated with the humour black bile
- the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife
- the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface
- (uncountable) Any general rock-based material.
- (alchemy, philosophy and Taoism) The aforementioned soil- or rock-based material, considered one of the four or five classical elements.
- (British) A connection electrically to the earth ((US) ground); on equipment: a terminal connected in that manner.
- (metonymic) The people on the globe.
- The ground, land (as opposed to the sky or sea).
- The world of our current life (as opposed to heaven or an afterlife).
- Any planet similar to the Earth (our earth): an exoplanet viewed as another earth, or a potential one.
- The lair or den (as a hole in the ground) of an animal such as a fox.
- Worldly things, as against spiritual ones.
- (uncountable) Soil.
- A region of the planet; a land or country.
name
name
- Earth: the Earth (our earth).
- The Developing World (the developing world).
- The Developed World (the developed world).
- The Fourth World (the fourth world).
- The Second World (the second world).
- The Third World (the third world).
- The First World (the first world).
- Existence.
- The Industrialized World (the industrialized world).
- The Universe: our universe.
noun
- a representation of the earth or the heavens
- the science that maps the general features of the universe; describes both heaven and earth (but without encroaching on geography or astronomy)
- The creation of maps of the universe.
- The study of the size and geometry of the universe and changes in those with cosmic time.
verb
- turn up, loosen, or remove earth
- remove, harvest, or recover by digging
- remove the inner part or the core of
- get the meaning of something
- thrust down or into
- work hard
- create by digging
- poke or thrust abruptly
- (transitive) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
- (mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
- (volleyball) To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball
- To thrust; to poke.
- (figurative) To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
- (transitive, intransitive) To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.
noun
- the act of digging
- the site of an archeological exploration
- an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow
- a small gouge (as in the cover of a book)
- An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place.
- The occupation of digging for gold.
- (music, slang) A rare or interesting vinyl record bought second-hand.
- (medicine, colloquial) Digoxin.
- (cricket) An innings.
- A thrust; a poke.
- (volleyball) A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
- A cutting, sarcastic remark.
verb
- turn up, loosen, or remove earth
- turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse
- do business worth a certain amount of money
- move by turning over or rotating
- turn from an upright or normal position
- cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
- think about carefully; weigh
- cause to move around a center so as to show another side of
- place into the hands or custody of
- (transitive) To cause extensive disturbance or disruption to (a room, storage place, etc.), e.g. while searching for an item, or ransacking a property.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To transfer.
- (transitive, sports) To give up control (of the ball and thus the ability to score).
- (transitive) To flip over; to rotate uppermost to bottom.
- (transitive) To mull, ponder
- (transitive, idiomatic) To produce, complete, or cycle through.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see turn, over.
- (transitive, intransitive) To spin the crankshaft of an internal combustion engine using the starter or hand crank in an attempt to make it run.
- (transitive, business) To generate (a certain amount of money from sales).
- (transitive, idiomatic) To relinquish; give back.
noun
- the central part of the Earth
- (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories
- the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place
- the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- a small group of indispensable persons or things
- a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil
- the center of an object
- a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill
- (physics) An atomic nucleus plus inner electrons (i.e., an atom, except for its valence electrons).
- (engineering, manufacturing) The portion of a mold that creates a cavity or impression within the part (casting or molded part) or that makes a hole in or through the part.
- (biochemistry) The central part of a protein's structure, consisting mostly of hydrophobic amino acids.
- (computing, informal, historical) Ellipsis of core memory (“magnetic data storage”).
- (engineering) The material between surface materials in a structured composite sandwich material.
- (art) A thematic aesthetic; objects related to a specific topic
- (neologism) An aesthetic ending in the suffix -core, such as cottagecore, normcore, etc.
- (military) The central fissile portion of a fission weapon.
- (historical units of measure) Alternative form of cor: a former Hebrew and Phoenician unit of volume.
- A piece of ferromagnetic material (e.g., soft iron), inside the windings of an electromagnet, that channels the magnetic field.
- The anatomical core, muscles which bridge abdomen and thorax.
- (botany) The main and most diverse monophyletic group within a clade or taxonomic group.
- A disorder of sheep caused by worms in the liver.
- (automotive, machinery, aviation, marine) A deposit paid by the purchaser of a rebuilt part, to be refunded on return of a used, rebuildable part, or the returned rebuildable part itself.
- (medicine) A tiny sample of organic material obtained by means of a fine-needle biopsy.
- A miner's underground working time or shift.
- (computer hardware) An individual computer processor, in the sense when several processors (called cores or CPU cores) are plugged together in one single integrated circuit to work as one (called a multi-core processor).
- The heart or inner part of a physical thing.
- The center or inner part of a space or area.
- A cylindrical sample of rock or other materials obtained by core drilling.
- The central part of a fruit, containing the kernels or seeds.
- (engineering, nuclear physics) The inner part of a nuclear reactor, in which the nuclear reaction takes place.
- (game theory) The set of feasible allocations that cannot be improved upon by a subset (a coalition) of the economy's agents.
- (printing) A hollow cylindrical piece of cardboard around which a web of paper or plastic is wound.
- The most important part of a thing or aggregate of things wherever located and whether of any determinate location at all; the essence.
- The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.
verb
adj
adj
- Exactly upright; extending in a straight line toward the centre of the earth, etc.
- Independent of or irrelevant to each other; orthogonal.
- (geometry) At or forming a right angle (to something).
- at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line
- intersecting at or forming right angles
- so steep as to be nearly vertical
noun
- A device such as a plumb line that is used in making or marking a perpendicular line.
- (geometry) A line or plane that is perpendicular to another.
- a cord from which a metal weight is suspended pointing directly to the earth's center of gravity; used to determine the vertical from a given point
- a Gothic style in 14th and 15th century England; characterized by vertical lines and a four-centered (Tudor) arch and fan vaulting
- an extremely steep face
- a straight line at right angles to another line
noun
- The planet Earth.
- A spherical model of Earth or other planet.
- A land snail of the genus Mesodon.
- A circular military formation used in Ancient Rome, corresponding to the modern infantry square.
- A part of a device, often a lamp.
- (medicine) The eyeball.
- (slang, quite uncommon, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast or buttock, whichever is more prominent.
- an object with a spherical shape
- a sphere on which a map (especially of the earth) is represented
verb
noun
- the act of coming down to the earth (or other surface)
- the act of coming to land after a voyage
- an intermediate platform in a staircase
- structure providing a place where boats can land people or goods
- A place on a shoreline where a boat lands.
- (in the plural) The amount of fish caught, as in a specific area or on a particular expedition.
- A level area at the top of a flight of stairs, or connecting one flight with another.
- An arrival at a surface, as of an airplane or any descending object.
verb
noun
noun
- the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet
- The visible horizontal line (in all directions) where the sky appears to meet the earth in the distance.
- a specific layer or stratum of soil or subsoil in a vertical cross section of land
- the great circle on the celestial sphere whose plane passes through the sensible horizon and the center of the Earth
- the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated
- Any level line or surface.
- (computer chess) The point at which a computer chess algorithm stops searching for further moves.
- (figuratively) The range or limit of one's knowledge, experience or interest; a boundary or threshold.
- (archaeology, chiefly US) A cultural sub-period or level within a more encompassing time period.
- The range or limit of any dimension in which one exists.
- (geology) A specific layer of soil, or stratum
noun
- the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet
- the outline of objects seen against the sky
- (databases) Ellipsis of skyline operator.
- A path of movement, especially military movement, producing a silhouette above terrain features visible from the location of likely observers.
- The line that seems to be the boundary of the sky and the ground; the horizon.
- The horizontal silhouette of a city or building against the sky.
- (journalism) A panel on the front page of a newspaper outlining some of the features to be found inside.
verb
noun
- a representation of the earth or the heavens
- the science that maps the general features of the universe; describes both heaven and earth (but without encroaching on geography or astronomy)
- The creation of maps of the universe.
- The study of the size and geometry of the universe and changes in those with cosmic time.
noun
- the central part of the Earth
- (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories
- the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place
- the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- a small group of indispensable persons or things
- a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil
- the center of an object
- a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill
- (physics) An atomic nucleus plus inner electrons (i.e., an atom, except for its valence electrons).
- (engineering, manufacturing) The portion of a mold that creates a cavity or impression within the part (casting or molded part) or that makes a hole in or through the part.
- (biochemistry) The central part of a protein's structure, consisting mostly of hydrophobic amino acids.
- (computing, informal, historical) Ellipsis of core memory (“magnetic data storage”).
- (engineering) The material between surface materials in a structured composite sandwich material.
- (art) A thematic aesthetic; objects related to a specific topic
- (neologism) An aesthetic ending in the suffix -core, such as cottagecore, normcore, etc.
- (military) The central fissile portion of a fission weapon.
- (historical units of measure) Alternative form of cor: a former Hebrew and Phoenician unit of volume.
- A piece of ferromagnetic material (e.g., soft iron), inside the windings of an electromagnet, that channels the magnetic field.
- The anatomical core, muscles which bridge abdomen and thorax.
- (botany) The main and most diverse monophyletic group within a clade or taxonomic group.
- A disorder of sheep caused by worms in the liver.
- (automotive, machinery, aviation, marine) A deposit paid by the purchaser of a rebuilt part, to be refunded on return of a used, rebuildable part, or the returned rebuildable part itself.
- (medicine) A tiny sample of organic material obtained by means of a fine-needle biopsy.
- A miner's underground working time or shift.
- (computer hardware) An individual computer processor, in the sense when several processors (called cores or CPU cores) are plugged together in one single integrated circuit to work as one (called a multi-core processor).
- The heart or inner part of a physical thing.
- The center or inner part of a space or area.
- A cylindrical sample of rock or other materials obtained by core drilling.
- The central part of a fruit, containing the kernels or seeds.
- (engineering, nuclear physics) The inner part of a nuclear reactor, in which the nuclear reaction takes place.
- (game theory) The set of feasible allocations that cannot be improved upon by a subset (a coalition) of the economy's agents.
- (printing) A hollow cylindrical piece of cardboard around which a web of paper or plastic is wound.
- The most important part of a thing or aggregate of things wherever located and whether of any determinate location at all; the essence.
- The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.
verb
adj
verb
noun
- the solid part of the earth's surface
- a connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage)
- the abode of mortals (as contrasted with Heaven or Hell)
- once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles), associated with the humour black bile
- the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife
- the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface
- (uncountable) Any general rock-based material.
- (alchemy, philosophy and Taoism) The aforementioned soil- or rock-based material, considered one of the four or five classical elements.
- (British) A connection electrically to the earth ((US) ground); on equipment: a terminal connected in that manner.
- (metonymic) The people on the globe.
- The ground, land (as opposed to the sky or sea).
- The world of our current life (as opposed to heaven or an afterlife).
- Any planet similar to the Earth (our earth): an exoplanet viewed as another earth, or a potential one.
- The lair or den (as a hole in the ground) of an animal such as a fox.
- Worldly things, as against spiritual ones.
- (uncountable) Soil.
- A region of the planet; a land or country.
name
verb
- turn up, loosen, or remove earth
- remove, harvest, or recover by digging
- remove the inner part or the core of
- get the meaning of something
- thrust down or into
- work hard
- create by digging
- poke or thrust abruptly
- (transitive) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
- (mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
- (volleyball) To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball
- To thrust; to poke.
- (figurative) To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
- (transitive, intransitive) To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.
noun
- the act of digging
- the site of an archeological exploration
- an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow
- a small gouge (as in the cover of a book)
- An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place.
- The occupation of digging for gold.
- (music, slang) A rare or interesting vinyl record bought second-hand.
- (medicine, colloquial) Digoxin.
- (cricket) An innings.
- A thrust; a poke.
- (volleyball) A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
- A cutting, sarcastic remark.
verb
- turn up, loosen, or remove earth
- turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse
- do business worth a certain amount of money
- move by turning over or rotating
- turn from an upright or normal position
- cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
- think about carefully; weigh
- cause to move around a center so as to show another side of
- place into the hands or custody of
- (transitive) To cause extensive disturbance or disruption to (a room, storage place, etc.), e.g. while searching for an item, or ransacking a property.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To transfer.
- (transitive, sports) To give up control (of the ball and thus the ability to score).
- (transitive) To flip over; to rotate uppermost to bottom.
- (transitive) To mull, ponder
- (transitive, idiomatic) To produce, complete, or cycle through.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see turn, over.
- (transitive, intransitive) To spin the crankshaft of an internal combustion engine using the starter or hand crank in an attempt to make it run.
- (transitive, business) To generate (a certain amount of money from sales).
- (transitive, idiomatic) To relinquish; give back.
adj
- of this earth
- situated between the earth and the moon
- Of or relating to the material world (as opposed to clerical, sacred, or spiritual); ephemeral, temporal, worldly.
- (chiefly historical) Situated beneath the moon; specifically, between the moon and the earth.
- (figurative) Inferior, subordinate.
- In or of this world (as opposed to heaven, etc.); earthly, terrestrial.
noun
adj
- of this earth
- operating or living or growing on land
- of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants
- concerned with the world or worldly matters
- of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air
- Of, relating to, or composed of land or earth.
- (broadcasting) Broadcast using radio waves as opposed to satellite or cable.
- (Mormonism) Of or pertaining to the second highest degree of glory.
- (astronomy) Of a planet, being composed primarily of silicate rocks or metals; see also terrestrial planet.
- Concerned with the world or worldly matters.
- Living or growing in or on land (as opposed to other habitat); not aquatic, etc.
- Of, relating to, or inhabiting the land of the Earth or its inhabitants, earthly.
noun
adj
- Exactly upright; extending in a straight line toward the centre of the earth, etc.
- Independent of or irrelevant to each other; orthogonal.
- (geometry) At or forming a right angle (to something).
- at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line
- intersecting at or forming right angles
- so steep as to be nearly vertical
noun
- A device such as a plumb line that is used in making or marking a perpendicular line.
- (geometry) A line or plane that is perpendicular to another.
- a cord from which a metal weight is suspended pointing directly to the earth's center of gravity; used to determine the vertical from a given point
- a Gothic style in 14th and 15th century England; characterized by vertical lines and a four-centered (Tudor) arch and fan vaulting
- an extremely steep face
- a straight line at right angles to another line