Grass

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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 cicale above in the lime, / And the lizards below in the grass, / Were as silent as ever old Tmolus was, / Listening to my sweet pipings.”

2. isim Any of the various plants that are not in the family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
3. isim A lawn.
4. isim The outside world, especially in the phrase "touch grass".
5. isim Marijuana.

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

6. isim An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.

   “What just happened must remain secret. Don't be a grass.”

7. isim Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
8. isim 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.”

9. isim The season of fresh grass; spring or summer.
10. isim That which is transitory.

    “The grasse withereth, the flowre fadeth; because the spirit of the Lord bloweth vpon it: surely the people is grasse.”

11. isim 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.'”

12. isim The surface of a mine.
13. fiil To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).

    “The Chicken himself attributed this punishment to his having had the misfortune to get into Chancery early in the proceedings, when he was severely fibbed by the Larkey one, and heavily grassed.”

14. fiil To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.

    “"Grassed on me he did," I said morosely. (Note: Grass is English thief slang for inform.)^([sic])”

15. fiil To cover with grass or with turf.
16. fiil To feed with grass.
17. fiil To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
18. fiil To bring to the grass or ground; to land.

    “Let him hook and land a tigerfish of 20 lb., at the imminent risk of capsizing and joining the company of the engaging crocodiles, or, when he has grassed the fish, of having a finger bitten off by his iron teeth […]”

19. özel isim A group of languages spoken in Papua New Guinea.
20. özel isim A surname.
21. özel isim A township in Spencer County, Indiana, United States, named after pioneer settler Daniel Grass.