grounding

Meanings

Noun

• education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge
  • "a good grounding in mathematics"
• fastening electrical equipment to earth

Verb

• fix firmly and stably
• confine or restrict to the ground
• place or put on the ground
• instruct someone in the fundamentals of a subject
• bring to the ground
• hit or reach the ground
• throw to the ground in order to stop play and avoid being tackled behind the line of scrimmage
• hit a groundball
• hit onto the ground
• cover with a primer; apply a primer to
• connect to a ground
• use as a basis for; found on

Synonyms

anchor, base, earthing, establish, found, foundation, ground, prime, run aground, strand, undercoat