earth
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- 1.
(alt of)Alternative letter-case form of Earth; our planet, third out from the Sun.
The astronauts saw the earth from the porthole.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(uncountable)Soil.
This is good earth for growing potatoes.
- 2.
(uncountable)Any general rock-based material.
She sighed when the plane's wheels finally touched earth.
- 3.
(countable, uncountable)The ground, land (as opposed to the sky or sea).
Birds are of the sky, not of the earth.
- 4.
(British, countable, uncountable)A connection electrically to the earth ((US) ground); on equipment: a terminal connected in that manner.
- 5.
(countable, uncountable)The lair or den (as a hole in the ground) of an animal such as a fox.
- 6.
(countable, uncountable)A region of the planet; a land or country.
- 7.
(countable, uncountable)Worldly things, as against spiritual ones.
- 8.
(countable, uncountable)The world of our current life (as opposed to heaven or an afterlife).
- 9.
(countable, metonymically, uncountable)(metonymic) The people on the globe.
- 10.
(countable, uncountable)Any planet similar to the Earth (our earth): an exoplanet viewed as another earth, or a potential one.
New space telescopes may accelerate the search for other earths that may be out there.
- 11.
(archaic, countable, uncountable)The human body.
- 12.
(countable, uncountable)(alchemy, philosophy and Taoism) The aforementioned soil- or rock-based material, considered one of the four or five classical elements.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(UK, transitive)To connect electrically to the earth.
That noise is because the amplifier is not properly earthed.
Đồng nghĩa: ground
- 2.
(transitive)To bury.
- 3.
(transitive)To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den.
- 4.
(intransitive)To burrow.
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From Middle English erthe, from Old English eorþe, from *erþu, from Proto-Germanic *erþō (dirt, ground, earth), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁érteh₂ (earth). 2 cog Cognate with erd, yerd, yird, yirth (earth, loam, mould, soil; ground), eard, eart, eord, eorth, erth (earth), eerd, eerde, iarde, Iart, iir, jard, örd, Öört (earth; world), Idde, Äid, Äide (earth; soil;