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  • adjective Not having been ground, unpulverized.
  • verb electronics To remove a connection to ground potential.
  • verb To remove the punishment of being grounded (restricted to home).

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Examples

  • You don't see covers like that anymore except in some unground mags that I wouldn't even know where to find.

    The sexy girls of Dead Snow 2008

  • The unground parking at Target on Colorado in Pasadena has yielded three paintings for me.

    Archive 2009-10-01 william wray 2009

  • The unground parking at Target on Colorado in Pasadena has yielded three paintings for me.

    Red Cart william wray 2009

  • Just get some coffee beans ground or unground doesn't matter, and put them in a sock, or some kind cheese-cloth bag.

    Use A Tea Bag To Freshen Small Spaces | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • May I add, if at all posible, using fresh herbs and whole, unground spices is preferable, as pre-ground spices lose their vitality and aroma.

    Spice Rack Remedies 2006

  • In 2006, China accounted for 78% of unground dry ginger imported into the U.S., says the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

    Tainted Ginger's Long Trip 2007

  • Japanese Koji and Moto: One Mold, Separate Yeast The Japanese koji, by contrast, is made fresh for each particular sake brewing, is based only on polished, unground rice, and is inoculated with a selected culture of Aspergillus oryzae alone, with no other molds.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • Japanese Koji and Moto: One Mold, Separate Yeast The Japanese koji, by contrast, is made fresh for each particular sake brewing, is based only on polished, unground rice, and is inoculated with a selected culture of Aspergillus oryzae alone, with no other molds.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • The crop was still being grown there, as well as in some localities in the Southern Alps, as a subsistence cereal of which the unground grain was used to prepare this special porridge.

    13. Other Cultivated Grains 1996

  • For instance, in Lembang, Indonesia, unground coarse-grained pozzolana is mixed with 20 per cent lime and sufficient quantities of water to produce solid blocks for building construction.

    Chapter 8 1985

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