Perhaps it can best be described as a feeling of being 'earthed'.

Always work on a earthed surface and touch the ground plane before touching any components.

The earthed consumer plug has several claimants to its invention.

This used a special cage aerial, mounted on a 308-metre high earthed mast.

Tubes need to be mounted near an earthed metal reflector in order for them to strike.

Since 2005, new Japanese homes are required to have 3-pin earthed outlets for connecting domestic appliances.

It then will not be possible to get a shock by touching two 'earthed' objects at once.

It's got an earthed copper roof, you know.

He was issued a US patent for an earthed socket and plug in 1928.

If, for example, flour were drizzled into the camera, it would still adhere to the surface of earthed metal.

If you can wear an earthed wrist strap or, at least, a piece of copper wire clipped to the ground plane.

The thick insulation prevents arcing from the cable to an earthed engine component.

The ground wire is also a parallel path with the earth for fault currents in earthed neutral circuits.

My second reason for telling the story of the tree and I is to illustrate the concept of being 'earthed'.

That can be easily fixed by installing earthed aluminium foil or sheet inside the cabinet.

The earthed terminal may be connected to the corresponding connection at the inverting station by means of a second conductor.

The resistors are large enough to prevent large currents flowing through the earthed infrastructure.

These ions are de-ionised by seeking earthed conductors, such as walls and ceilings.

With wet paints, this allows the charged paint to be attracted to the earthed piece and gives high transfer efficiency.

Via glareata: An earthed road with a graveled surface.

Other earthed sockets that are widely used today are operable with unearthed plugs.

Discharge yourself by touching an earthed object before handling the i.c. and then try not to touch the pins.

I claim no copyright for the expression, but since first hearing it regularly find myself considering people in terms of whether they are 'earthed' or not.

Then, one after another, they disintegrated, falling apart like shattered earthed statues, crumbling and drifting to the stone of the ledge.

The outer conductor or sheath (5) serves as an earthed layer and will conduct leakage currents if needed.

The guy is just like one of us, down to earth.

The earth began to move just a few weeks ago.

Does anyone really want to be the last person on earth?

The will of God is to be done on earth.

Why on earth did all these women go out with you?

Not too many people really care about the future of the earth.

On earth at least, the end of life is death.

I want my body to give back to the earth.

In 1983 he seemed to fall off the face of the earth.

For the time being, the only known life is on Earth.

What on earth is going to become of these children?

You took one out of space the same day, on Earth.

She knew things no one on earth should ever have known.

The whole Earth as seen from 22,300 miles away, out in space.

I left Earth three times and found no other place to go.

And she got to see their parents more often, being on Earth.

We start in the beginning as earth, which is the first.

He asked her how long she would be on Earth.

Mother would never have gone back to Earth, not if she'd known.

Both of them knew he was going to come to Earth.

A short time is all everyone on Earth has got.

Not more than a couple weeks after they'd started out from Earth.

Why on earth would he have had such a thing?

What on earth had got into her, she asked herself?

Nothing on earth would have made him tell her so.

A change on the ground in Iraq is also needed.

We see a lot more information on the ground than they do.

We have never been able to find much common ground.

Or we can just look at something on the ground.

The company does not break much new ground here, though.

Then at another turn she was on more open ground.

Over here, I only got six feet to the ground.

"And we are working to find common ground with the new administration."

And they need a way to get oil out of their ground.

Many schools more than made up ground they lost last year.

"But not enough has been done on the ground to bring people back."

Quite simply, they do not have the men to hold the ground.

We need to make up ground, and not just a game or two.

Second, you can run a good thing into the ground.

At the same time, though, we must keep our feet on the ground.

We also have to make a change on the ground.

His feet left the ground and he came down hard.

He has to keep his feet on the ground, is all.

A car came they put my face to the ground.

We still have a lot of oil left in the ground.

All he could see was the ground coming together again.

No one on the ground needed to be told what to do.

We need to find out what their common ground is.

Here you can see him second last but making ground now.

So you had to be pretty sure of your ground.

All the ugly energy of the night earthed for a few hours.

All that is a bit abstract but it can be earthed by an example.

The change of subject earthed the tension in the room like a lightning rod.

One had its loading hose partly on the ground so it was earthed.

An example would be a transformer earthed on both the primary and secondary side.

Besides, the potential victims would have to be earthed.

Magnetic material is excluded and the bodies are earthed before release.

A thin bolt of lightning earthed itself on Charlie's chain.

Apparently the star ship had earthed in the only opening in it.

Now various muscles on the Librarian's body were twitching with the beat as the music earthed itself through him.

You don't have to be earthed to be struck by lightning.

"Not only sent back but earthed for good.

The tank body is normally solidly grounded or earthed.

Oswald's Stone was earthed over in 1819, but dug up three years later because of its presumed historical significance.

The thunderstorm crackle of violence dissipated from the room as though suddenly earthed.

To keep the vegetable white, the asparagus bed must be earthed up into mounds and the shoots cut just as they appear at the surface.

Any screws etc. fitted on the case will then be earthed via the case.

Unfortunately, unless the device is skilfully earthed the shielding often has little effect.

The assigned class depends on whether or not the device is earthed, and the degree of insulation it incorporates.

Any exposed metal must be reliably earthed to the mains Earth lead.

In fact,One leg of the equipment side can be earthed without effecting the balance on the line as shown in figure 5.

If not, fit one, because if the strings are not earthed you will definitely experience buzz.

Here and there it earthed itself in random poltergeist activity, like flickers of summer lightning before a big storm.

He'd already been round it four times to check there were no wires running from the house and had earthed it with a copper rod.

Starshine earthed the power in her mind, bound the spell, and released the circle.

From the outside, the building seems to be grounded only in air.

He grounded her for three weeks and went to bed.

"Do you want to be grounded for the rest of your life?"

I've got a lot of friends who have no money, and I find they're more grounded.

In the end, it was my mother who grounded me for a month.

It got back to my parents, and I was grounded for three months.

It is those friends, she said, who keep her grounded.

Yet such leaders must be grounded in their own skills.

He saw his career being grounded before it ever got off the ground.

"You told him he was grounded for the rest of his career."

They considered what had been done and decided tonight would be too soon after David's being grounded.

And the story has also seemed to have given him grounding.

"I wanted my business to be really grounded first," she said.

But at the same time you want to keep your perspective on life and stay grounded.

But those problems are often much more grounded in daily life on Earth.

The airline was grounded by the government for three months.

Clearly, the concern about the drug is grounded in fact.

There is good reason for grounding the work in international law.

We at the Ambassador are looking for someone more, well, grounded.

Maybe he needed to touch home base, get grounded again.

Everything they built in has some way of grounding out the effect.

The action is more grounded in reality than the original.

She shows no concern over it and gets grounded by her parents.

Direct knowledge grounded in one's own experience can be called upon.

The town, much like the state has its economy grounded in agriculture.