grounds
n 1: your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to
base belief; "the evidence that smoking causes lung
cancer is very compelling" [syn: evidence]
2: the enclosed land around a house or other building; "it was
a small house with almost no yard" [syn: yard, curtilage]
3: a tract of land cleared for some special purposes
(recreation or burial etc.)
4: a justification for something existing or happening; "he had
no cause to complain"; "they had good reason to rejoice"
[syn: cause, reason]
5: sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid [syn: dregs,
settlings]