different between grass vs compost

English

Etymology

From Middle English gras, gres, gers, from Old English græs, gærs (“grass, blade of grass, herb, young corn, hay, plant; pasture”), from Proto-West Germanic *gras (“grass”), from Proto-Germanic *gras? (“grass”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?reh?- (“to grow”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: gräs, IPA^(key): /????s/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [?????s]
  • (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): [???ä?s], [?????s]
• • Rhymes: -??s
• enPR: gr?s, IPA^(key): /??æs/
  • (US, Canada) IPA^(key): [???æs], [?????s], [???e?s]
  • (Northern England, Ireland) IPA^(key): [???as], [???æs]
  • Rhymes: -æs

Noun

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 and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:grass
2. (countable) Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
3. (uncountable) A lawn.
4. (uncountable, slang) Marijuana.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana
5. (countable, Britain, slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:informant

6. (uncountable, physics) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
7. (uncountable, slang) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
   • 1960, United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel, Radarman 3 & 2 (volume 1, page 49)

     The problem in radar detection is to have a signal to noise ratio that will allow the echo to be seen through the grass on the radar screen. The use of a long pulse allows a greater average signal strength to be returned in the target echoes.

   • 1963, Analysis of Weapons (page 61)

     Some of the scattered waves can be picked up by the receiver and may show up as "grass" on the radar presentation. Weather radars make use of this phenomenon to chart the progress of storms.

8. The season of fresh grass; spring or summer.

   Synonyms: breakup, spring, springtime

9. (obsolete, figuratively) That which is transitory.

   Synonym: ephemera
10. (countable, folk etymology) Asparagus; "sparrowgrass".
11. (mining) The surface of a mine.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: gras, garas
• ? Fiji Hindi: giraas

Translations

See also

• Poaceae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Grass (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

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.).

   Synonyms: flatten, floor, lay low, lay out, knock down, knock out, knock over, strike down
2. (transitive or intransitive, slang) To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:rat out
3. (transitive) To cover with grass or with turf.
4. (transitive) To feed with grass.
5. (transitive) To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
6. (transitive) To bring to the grass or ground; to land.
   • 1903, John Buchan, The African Colony

     Let him hook and land a tigerfish of 20 lb., at the imminent risk of capsizing and joining the company of the engaging crocodiles, or, when he has grassed the fish, of having a finger bitten off by his iron teeth […]

Translations

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

• gras (Sette Comuni)

Etymology

From Middle High German gras, from Old High German gras, from Proto-West Germanic *gras, from Proto-Germanic *gras?. Cognate with German Gras, English grass.

Noun

grass m

1. (Luserna, Tredici Comuni) grass

References

• “grass” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Romansch

Etymology

From Latin crassus. Compare French graisse.

Noun

grass m

1. fat

English

Etymology

From Middle English compost, from Old Northern French compost (“mixture of leaves, manure, etc., for fertilizing land" also "condiment”), from Latin compositus (“composed”), from componere. Doublet of compote, which was taken from modern French, and composite.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?mp?st/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?mpo?st/
• Hyphenation: com?post

Noun

compost (countable and uncountable, plural composts)

1. The decayed remains of organic matter that has rotted into a natural fertilizer.

   Dig plenty of compost into clay or sandy soil to improve its structure.
2. (Britain) A medium in which one can cultivate plants.

   Once the seed tray is filled with compost, insert the seeds spaced 3 cm apart from one another.
3. (obsolete) A mixture; a compound.
   • a. 1660, Henry Hammond, God's Complaint Against Revolters

     A sad compost of more bitter than sweet.

Derived terms

• composter
• compost heap

Translations

Verb

compost (third-person singular simple present composts, present participle composting, simple past and past participle composted)

1. To produce compost, let organic matter decay into fertilizer.

   If you compost your grass clippings, you can improve your soil.

Derived terms

• compostable

Translations

See also

• mulch (sometimes used interchangeably with compost)
• humus

Anagrams

• compots

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /kom?p?st/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kum?p?st/

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan, from Latin compostus, syncopated variant of compositus.

Adjective

compost (feminine composta, masculine plural composts or compostos, feminine plural compostes)

1. compound

Verb

compost

1. past participle of compondre

Etymology 2

From the above, possibly influenced by English compost.

Noun

compost m (plural composts or compostos)

1. compost

Related terms

• compostar

Further reading

• “compost” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English compost.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?m?p?st/
• Hyphenation: com?post
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

compost m or n (uncountable)

1. compost, natural fertilizer produced by decaying organic matter

Derived terms

• composteren
• compostering
• composthoop

French

Etymology

From a substantivation and specialization of old Norman compost, from (Old Northern French), Old French composte (“mixture of leaves, manure, etc., for fertilizing land; condiment”), from Latin compostus, syncopated variant of compositus (“composed, compound”), from componere. Modern French spelling influenced by English (compare the modern Norman spelling compôt, which is the expected form). Doublet of compote and composite.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.p?st/

Noun

compost m (plural composts)

1. compost, natural fertilizer produced by decaying organic matter

Derived terms

• compostage
• composter

Related terms

• composer

Further reading

• “compost” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English compost. Doublet of composto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?m.post/
• Hyphenation: còm?post

Noun

compost m (invariable)

1. compost

Old French

Etymology

From Latin compostus, syncopated variant of compositus, from comp?n? (“I arrange, compile, compose, make up”).

Adjective

compost m (oblique and nominative feminine singular composte)

1. composed (of)

Descendants

• English: compost
• Norman: compôt
• French: compost, compote

Romanian

Etymology

From French compost

Noun

compost n (plural composturi)

1. compost

Declension

Spanish

Noun

compost m (plural composts)

1. compost

   Synonym: composta

Related terms

• compostar

Further reading

• “compost” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
• compost on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es