boden in English:

Although most islands in the ocean have been mapped, the ocean floor is generally unknown.

wooden floor

The floor is dirty! the shopkeeper reprimanded him. "You haven't even paid for the suit yet, and you're already getting it dirty!"

You are invited to attend a meeting at 2:30 p.m. in the meeting room on the second floor. Thank you.

But Dima would never wear the glasses. Suddenly, his body went limp and he collapsed to the floor.

In 1912, the Austrian tailor Franz Reichelt died jumping off the first floor of the Eiffel Tower while trying out his new invention, the parachute coat, which did not work...

They studied it a little bit, but they couldn't spend all day finding out what to do, so they finally picked up the other one, and the water went out again, all over the floor.

It was difficult for a girl with her face and figure to make it across the dance floor without bumping, by only the purest of accidents, into one roué or another.

This club is fearfully dull. The dance floor is empty and the smoking patio is packed.

This product is both a floor polish and a dessert topping.

Using a doubled-up cushion in place of a pillow I lie down on the hard wooden floor with nothing but a carpet spread over it.

You wake up lying on the rocky floor of a dark cave. A little light filters down from above. You can just make out a couple of openings leading away from the cave. What do you do now?

I'd get a soup plate and then slide the glass very carefully over to the edge of the table, and let the water run into the soup plate - it doesn't have to run onto the floor.

An argument broke out on the floor of the convention hall and in no time fists were flying.

When I tried to move the desk, one of its legs made a jarring sound as it scraped across the floor.

It has four-wheel drive and can travel on any terrain.

It's crazy how much uncharted terrain is down here.

The rough terrain checked the progress of the hikers.

But China's extreme terrain and size have created...

Boeing's safety experts have joined others in the industry to form an international task force to try to eliminate one particular kind of air crash known as controlled flight into terrain, CFIT.

When warm, light, air crosses mountains it rises into the upper atmosphere and does not fall back to the ground. In this, and other, ways wind changes with the terrain.

This is awfully hilly terrain; I hope we don't screw up the transmission.

You're grounded

If time were reversed, raindrops would collect themselves from the ground and fly up to the clouds.

When warm, light, air crosses mountains it rises into the upper atmosphere and does not fall back to the ground. In this, and other, ways wind changes with the terrain.

Kori walked downwards as much as she could and ended up five stories below ground level.

An office building, with 22 stories above ground and 2 below, is under construction.

In the fight to abolish slavery Lincoln knew that he occupied the moral high ground.

There must be a sustained effort to listen to each other; to learn from each other; to respect one another; and to seek common ground.

How much ground beef do we need for this recipe? - About half a kilo, if I remember correctly.

ground for appeal, for divorce, of action

It's not my ground, I don't know anything about physics.

In the mountains it is not until the end of April that the snow disappears completely from the ground.

When the flight crew has their aircraft under control, everything is working normally and yet it still crashes into the ground, that's CFIT.

This is not about my capabilities. Even if I never had heard the slightest sound of english, I still could kneel down and put my face on the ground to show my submission. But who can force me into that?

The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder's lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.

He pulled harder on the rope, grunting with the effort.

He grunted some more and promised to scold her when she got home

The pigs grunted when they smelled the food.

Grunt when lifting a heavy suitcase. OR When I asked him if he was annoyed with me, he just grunted.

More beer means more grunts.

Where's your bathroom? I've gotta grunt.

O.K. I'm a grunt. But at least I have a chance to accomplish something in my life this way.

Did you see that grunt on TV? A real caveman.

I grunted and groaned.

Eddie mostly grunted, never saying much.

He seldom slept, for one thing, and he had that peculiarly American ability to exhibit contempt for the working class while also resonating powerfully with it—in his case as a self-made grunt, a latter-day Pete Rose.

When rain's fallen and the soil is moist, it becomes easier to pull out weeds.

Worms are sometimes beneficial to soil.

rich soil

Australians all let us rejoice for we are young and free. We’ve golden soil and wealth for toil. Our home is girt by sea.

Creationists were in my prayers today when I saw a program about a German vineyard near Lake Constance. They said the soil was very rich, created by a volcano 15 million years ago.

Agriculture is defined as the cultivation of soil for growing crops.

feeding on flesh from this soil that was hallowed

Hurricane force winds ripped trees out of the wet soil.

If we send all of them to landfill sites; over 130;000 kilos of lead will be released into the soil.

The soil in this area is very chalky.; Corn is grown a lot in this area - the soil seems to suit it very well.; These new plants haven't taken - they don't like this dry soil.

Sophie and Neil discover that soil has some surprising qualities and discuss how growing fruit and veg can be therapeutic too.

Cutting forests releases greenhouse gases from the wood and the soil, and fertilisers create greenhouse gases too

Gardeners in search of better soil are right up there on the admiration list too.

soiled linen

Stop maize monoculture, and reestablish multiple cropping, to combat the loss of landscape and soil diversity.