proper noun
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The third planet of the Solar System; the world upon which humans live.
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The personification of the Earth or earth, as a fertile woman or goddess.
noun
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Soil.
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This is good earth for growing potatoes.
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Any general rock-based material.
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She sighed when the plane's wheels finally touched earth.
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The ground, land (as opposed to the sky or sea).
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Birds are of the sky, not of the earth.
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A connection electrically to the earth ((US) ground); on equipment: a terminal connected in that manner.
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The lair (as a hole on the ground) of an animal such as fox.
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A region of the planet; a land or country.
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Worldly things, as against spiritual ones.
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The world of our current life (as opposed to heaven or an afterlife).
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The people on the globe.
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The human body.
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The aforementioned soil- or rock-based material, considered one of the four or five classical elements.
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Any of certain substances now known to be oxides of metal, which were distinguished by being infusible, and by insolubility in water.
verb
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To connect electrically to the earth.
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That noise is because the amplifier is not properly earthed.
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To bury.
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To burrow.
Examples of earth in a Sentence
The leader of the bad guys on earth died and was replaced.
She hacked at the dry earth with her hoe.
Why on earth would anyone feel sorry for you?
She has gone up to the top of the earth to hunt for our dinner.
As suddenly as it started, the earth stopped shaking.
I love life--I love this grass, this earth, this air....
The sky was given the status of something pure and clean, the earth sort of a dirty wasteland, and anything below water level or the ground considered Hellish.
Every day the earth heats and cools as night turns into day and back into night.
We must live, we must love, and we must believe that we live not only today on this scrap of earth, but have lived and shall live forever, there, in the Whole, said Pierre, and he pointed to the sky.
The tall trees were draped in a white robe that had drifted to the earth, not snarled their way downward like the wind driven Eastern storms where snow was a dirty word, not the magical hush that mother nature bestowed on the mountains of the west.
She forced herself to notice how dark the sky was, the rich scent of earth in the air, the tickle of the pine needles that brushed her skin.
The earth in flames, with earthquakes swallowing whole towns and buildings burning.
She doesn't realize her time on this earth is ebbing to a close, perhaps only minutes from now after she answers my questions.
It smelled of earth and sunshine.
The earth beneath him trembled, which he took as a good sign.
I cringed at the thought of who might have spent their last nights on earth on that pallet.
I study about the earth, and the animals, and I like arithmetic exceedingly.
Mansr dropped to his knees as the earth continued to tremble.
The crack grew fast, flying down the trail towards Gabriel. The sound of the earth tearing grew louder. The trees on either side of her expanded, quickly doubling and then quadrupling in size. Afraid of being crushed between them, Katie darted off the trail towards Andre, who ran ahead of her.
There is no way on God's green earth I am going to influence that lovely woman to do your bidding!
Mortals who stand upon the earth and look up at the sky cannot often distinguish these forms, but our friends were now so near to the clouds that they observed the dainty fairies very clearly.
The night veils without doubt a part of this glorious creation; but day comes to reveal to us this great work, which extends from earth even into the plains of the ether.
Denisov and Rostov were living in an earth hut, dug out for them by the soldiers and roofed with branches and turf.
That there was a better chance of her selling art if she painted something no one else on earth could imagine?
She pulled away from the warriors and dropped beside him, more comfortable on the ground than trying to navigate the shaking earth on her feet.
What on earth would we do?
Who made the earth and the seas, and everything?
Yet there was no earth or place for them to grow around her.
One day, a tornado comes, lifts up your trailer with everyone in it, flies it around the world to the poorest nation on earth, and drops it in the middle of the village.
That they were going to some other planet millions of light years from earth because Romas knew a few good men they'd like to hook her up with?
I am delighted to find humbugs inside the earth, just the same as on top of it.
These children are learning it just as the first people who lived on the earth learned it in the beginning.
In his view the earth is all equally cultivated like a garden.
Nothing earth shattering there, nor anything Yancey would find either threatening or interesting.
Yeah, we're all idiots here on planet earth.
It compared the earth to a cesspool.
Morgan sums up a discussion on Lubbock's experiments in which the ants failed to utilize particles of earth for bridge-making, with the suggestive remark that " What these valuable experiments seem to show is that the ant, probably the most intelligent of all insects, has no claim to be regarded as a rational being."
Although for the purposes of geographical nomenclature, boundaries formed by a coast-line - that is, by depressions of the earth's solid crust below the ocean level - are most easily recog- Political nized and are of special convenience; and although such divisions.
The soil consists, for the most part, either of clay intermixed with sand or of calcareous earth, and is on the whole fruitful.
This addition to the size of the cave was partially filled up by the cave earth.
Their interest is in the ethical training of the individual on earth.
The earth has an enormous molten core that contains vast amounts of energy.
So, far from reaching that point the pessimists foretold—where we have exhausted the meager resources of earth and find ourselves dwindling away—something entirely different is happening.
At first I had only a few books in raised print--"readers" for beginners, a collection of stories for children, and a book about the earth called "Our World."
Palaeontological evidence conclusively proves that the surface of the earth has been successively occupied by vegetative forms of increasing complexity, rising from the simplest algae to the most highly organized flowering plant.
In the attempt that has been made to map out the land surface of the earth, probable community of origin has been relied upon more than the possession of obvious characters.
The fundamental basis of geography is the vertical relief of the earth's crust, which controls all mobile distributions.
But apart from the applied science, there is an aspect of pure geography which concerns the theory of the relation of economics to the surface of the earth.
But while we have yet to wait for that expansion of principal triangulation which will bring Asia into connexion with Europe by the direct process of earth measurement, a topobetween graphical connexion has been effected between Russian Russ/an and Indian surveys which sufficiently proves that the and deductive methods employed by both countries for the Indian determination of the co-ordinate values of fixed points so surveys.
Its property of absorbing large proportions of water, up to 80%, and yet present the appearance of a hard solid body, makes the material a basis for the hydrated soaps, smooth and marbled, in which water, sulphate of soda, and other alkaline solutions, soluble silicates, fuller's earth, starch, &c. play an important and bulky part.