grass

Definizione monolingua

grass

grass (third-person singular simple present grasses, present participle grassing, simple past and past participle grassed)

1. (transitive) To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
   • 1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Naval Treaty’, Norton 2005, p.709:

     He flew at me with his knife, and I had to grass him twice, and got a cut over the knuckles, before I had the upper hand of him.

2. (transitive or intransitive, slang) To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.

grass (countable and uncountable; plural grasses)

1. (countable, uncountable) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem, wrap around it for a distance, and leave, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
2. (uncountable) A lawn.
3. (uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
4. (countable, slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
5. (uncountable, physics) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
6. (uncountable, slang) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.

Definizione dizionario grass

	erba
	marijuana
	ground cover plant
	A very large and widespread family of Monocotyledoneae, with more than 10.000 species, most of which are herbaceous, but a few are woody. The stems are jointed, the long, narrow leaves originating at the nodes. The flowers are inconspicuous, with a much reduced perianth, and are wind-pollinated or cleistogamous. The fruit in single-seeded, usually a caryopsis. Grasses are the most important of all plants for food. (Source: ALL)

	delatore
	informer

	graminacea
	ground cover plant

	prato
	lawn

	spia
	informer

	pentito
	informer

	traditore
	informer

fieno

gramigna

herbe

mangime

paglia

pascolo

pianta

piantare ad erba

prateria

tappeto erboso

vegetale

verdura

èrba

Altri significati:

(transitive) To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).

to inform on

A drug prepared from the cannabis plant, that is smoked or ingested for its euphoric effect.

(transitive or intransitive, slang) To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.

(countable, slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.

(uncountable, slang) Marijuana.

grass (short lived variety)

(uncountable, physics) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.

(uncountable) A lawn.

(countable, uncountable) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem, wrap around it for a distance, and leave, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.

(uncountable, slang) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.