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The floor of everything, holding you up while quietly waiting to pull you back down.
means The solid surface of the earth beneath us — or, by extension, the basis or foundation on which something rests.
from From Old English 'grund,' meaning the bottom or foundation — of the sea, of a valley, of anything at all. It has Germanic cousins (German 'Grund,' Dutch 'grond'), and the deepest sense seems to have been 'the lowest part,' the bottom you finally reach. That ancient bottom-ness still echoes everywhere: in the ground beneath your feet, the grounds at the bottom of a coffee cup, and the figurative 'grounds' you stand on when you have a foundation for your claim.
- electrical safety
- Ground wires divert deadly current away from you
- deep heat
- Six feet down stays roughly cave-cool year-round
- ancient archive
- Soil layers record millennia like stacked pages
- living dirt
- One teaspoon holds billions of microorganisms
- falling proof
- Skydivers fear it more than the jump
ground zero — world trade center site in new york city, destroyed september 11, 2001
verdun — french-german battlefield in wwi, 700,000+ casualties in 1916
gettysburg — pennsylvania civil war battlefield, july 1863, turning point of the war