Word Meanings - SURVIEW - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To survey; to make a survey of. "To surview his ground." Spenser.
Related words: (words related to SURVIEW)
- GROUNDWORK
That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden. - GROUNDEN
p. p. of Grind. Chaucer. - GROUNDNUT
The fruit of the Arachis hypogæa ; the peanut; the earthnut. A leguminous, twining plant , producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste. The dwarf ginseng . Gray. A European plant of the genus - GROUNDLESS
Without ground or foundation; wanting cause or reason for support; not authorized; false; as, groundless fear; a groundless report or assertion. -- Ground"less*ly, adv. -- Ground"less*ness, n. - SURVEYANCE
Survey; inspection. - GROUNDLY
Solidly; deeply; thoroughly. Those whom princes do once groundly hate, Let them provide to die as sure us fate. Marston. - GROUNDING
The act, method, or process of laying a groundwork or foundation; hence, elementary instruction; the act or process of applying a ground, as of color, to wall paper, cotton cloth, etc.; a basis. - GROUNDAGE
A local tax paid by a ship for the ground or space it occupies while in port. Bouvier. - GROUNDLING
A fish that keeps at the bottom of the water, as the loach. 2. A spectator in the pit of a theater, which formerly was on the ground, and without floor or benches. No comic buffoon to make the groundlings laugh. Coleridge. - GROUND
A floor or pavement supposed to rest upon the earth. 2. Any definite portion of the earth's surface; region; territory; country. Hence: A territory appropriated to, or resorted to, for a particular purpose; the field or place of action; - SURVEYING
That branch of applied mathematics which teaches the art of determining the area of any portion of the earth's surface, the length and directions of the bounding lines, the contour of the surface, etc., with an accurate delineation of the whole - SURVEYAL
Survey. Barrow. - SURVIEW
To survey; to make a survey of. "To surview his ground." Spenser. - SURVEYOR
1. One placed to superintend others; an overseer; an inspector. Were 't not madness then, To make the fox surveyor of the fold Shak. 2. One who views and examines for the purpose of ascertaining the condition, quantity, or quality of anything; - SPENSERIAN
Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene." - GROUNDSILL
Defn: - SURVEY
1. To inspect, or take a view of; to view with attention, as from a high place; to overlook; as, to stand on a hill, and survey the surrounding country. Round he surveys and well might, where he stood, So high above. Milton. 2. To view - SURVEYORSHIP
The office of a surveyor. - GROUNDSEL
An annual composite plant one of the most common, and widely distributed weeds on the globe. (more info) grundeswelge, earlier gundiswilge; gund matter, pus + swelgan to swallow. So named as being good for a running from the eye. See - GROUNDEDLY
In a grounded or firmly established manner. Glanvill. - MISGROUND
To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall. - UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
Wildcat insurance. - PLAYGROUND
A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school. - FOREGROUND
On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6. - DISPENSER
One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors. - RESURVEY
To survey again or anew; to review. Shak. - BACKGROUND
The space which is behind and subordinate to a portrait or group of figures. Note: The distance in a picture is usually divided into foreground, middle distance, and background. Fairholt. 3. Anything behind, serving as a foil; as, the statue had - UNDERGROUND
The place or space beneath the surface of the ground; subterranean space. A spirit raised from depth of underground. Shak. - MIDDLE-GROUND
That part of a picture between the foreground and the background. - WINTER-GROUND
To coved over in the season of winter, as for protection or shelter; as, to winter-ground the roods of a plant. The ruddock would . . . bring thee all this, Yea, and furred moss besides, when flowers are none To winter-ground thy corse. Shak. - AGROUND
On the ground; stranded; -- a nautical term applied to a ship when its bottom lodges on the ground. Totten.