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Verb
/ərTH/,
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earths, plural;
  1. Cover the root and lower stem of a plant with heaped-up earth

  2. Drive (a fox) to its underground lair

  3. (of a fox) Run to its underground lair

Noun
  1. The planet on which we live; the world
    • - the diversity of life on earth
  2. The surface of the world as distinct from the sky or the sea
    • - it plummeted back to earth at 60 mph
  3. The present abode of humankind, as distinct from heaven or hell

  4. The substance of the land surface; soil
    • - a layer of earth
  5. One of the four elements in ancient and medieval philosophy and in astrology (considered essential to certain signs of the zodiac)

  6. A stable, dense, nonvolatile inorganic substance found in the ground

  7. The substance of the human body

  8. The underground lair or habitation of a badger or fox


  1. the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on; "the Earth moves around the sun"; "he sailed around the world"
  2. hide in the earth like a hunted animal
  3. connect to the earth; "earth the circuit"
  4. the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface; "they dug into the earth outside the church"
  5. the abode of mortals (as contrasted with Heaven or Hell); "it was hell on earth"
  6. once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles)
  7. Earth (Земля, ; literally translated as "Soil") is a 1930 Soviet film by Ukrainian director Alexander Dovzhenko concerning an insurrection by a community of farmers, following a hostile takeover by Kulak landowners. It is Part 3 of Dovzhenko's "Ukraine Trilogy" (along with Zvenigora and Arsenal).
  8. Earth (Земя) is a 1957 Bulgarian drama film directed by Zahari Zhandov. It was entered into the 1957 Cannes Film Festival.
  9. Earth (released in India as 1947: Earth) is a 1998 film directed by Deepa Mehta. It is based upon Bapsi Sidhwa's novel, Cracking India, (1991, U.S.; 1992, India; originally published as Ice Candy Man, 1988, England). Earth is the second part of Mehta's Elements trilogy. ...
  10. Earth is a 2007 nature documentary film which depicts the diversity of wild habitats and creatures across the planet. The film begins in the Arctic in January of one year and moves south, finishing in Antarctica in the December of the same year. ...
  11. Ace Combat is an arcade style Flight Action video game series published by the Japanese company Namco Bandai Games. The series emphasizes fast-paced action and dramatic plots, and has established itself as one of the most successful flight sim franchises around.
  12. The Known Worlds of the fictional Andromeda universe include more than a million star systems, scattered across the galaxies of the Local Group. ...
  13. Soil; Any general rock-based material; The ground, land (as opposed to the sky or sea); A connection electrically to the earth (US ground); on equipment: a terminal connected in that manner; A fox's home or lair; The world of our current life (as opposed to heaven or an afterlife); One of ...
  14. The third planet in order from the Sun, upon which humans live. Represented in astronomy and astrology by ♁ and ⊕
  15. eormengrund; eorð folde; grund, m; hruse, f; molde, f
  16. Earth, the third planet in order from the sun, is a big magnet with North and South poles as centers of attractions. Its magnetic field and gravitational force has considerable effects on everything on the Earth, living and non-living.
  17. Synonymous with “ground.”
  18. That portion of the earth's crust sufficiently below the surface to act as an infinite sink or source for electric charge. Earth is considered the universal ground or reference zero potential level.
  19. Usually a carbonate, oxide or hydroxide. Earths were originally classified by physical properties as absorbent, crystalline, and dry, insipid, not inflammable, fusible solids which often recovered their original texture after fusion.
  20. (or "the Earth" or "Terra") is the third planet of the Sol system and the only one in the universe known by us to be inhabited by intelligent[?] life (there is continuing controversy about the existence and nature of extraterrestrial life). The planet has one moon, Luna.
  21. I have capitalized the name of our planet in this book because I am dealing with astronomy, not soil.
  22. Earth is the uterus of the universe where blood flows and life takes birth. If we imagine the universe as a single human body and the planets are its different organs; Earth, our home planet plays the role of uterus of that imaginary human body. ...
  23. The. Arabic arz Muhammad taught his followers that hust as there are seven heavens [HEAVEN.] on above another, so there are seven earths one beneath another, the distance between each of these regions being five hundred years' journey. (Mishkat, book xxiv c I part 3)
  24. or Planet Earth (also called the Real World) is an expansive planet that features a wide variety of people, cultures, and ecosystems. ...
  25. Where a fox goes to ground for safety, usually a den or kennel.