earths
noun
- 1
Soil.
“This is good earth for growing potatoes.”
- 2
Any general rock-based material.
“She sighed when the plane's wheels finally touched earth.”
- 3
The ground, land (as opposed to the sky or sea).
“Birds are of the sky, not of the earth.”
- 4
A connection electrically to the earth ((US) ground); on equipment: a terminal connected in that manner.
- 5
The lair (as a hole on the ground) of an animal such as fox.
- 6
A region of the planet; a land or country.
- 7
Worldly things, as against spiritual ones.
- 8
The world of our current life (as opposed to heaven or an afterlife).
- 9
The people on the globe.
- 10
The human body.
- 11
The aforementioned soil- or rock-based material, considered one of the four or five classical elements.
- 12
Any of certain substances now known to be oxides of metal, which were distinguished by being infusible, and by insolubility in water.
verb
- 1
To connect electrically to the earth.
“That noise is because the amplifier is not properly earthed.”
- 2
To bury.
- 3
To burrow.
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