The difference between Ephemera and Grass

When used as nouns, ephemera means objects that are designed to be short-lived, whereas grass means 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.


Grass is also verb with the meaning: to lay out on the grass.

check bellow for the other definitions of Ephemera and Grass

  1. Ephemera as a noun:

  1. Ephemera as a noun:

    Objects that are designed to be short-lived.

    Examples:

    "vintage ephemera'"

  2. Ephemera as a noun (library science):

    Published single-sheet or single page documents which are meant to be thrown away after one use.

  3. Ephemera as a noun (by extension):

    Transitory audiovisual matter not intended to be retained or preserved.

    Examples:

    "video ephemera'"

    "audio ephemera'"

  1. Grass as a noun (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.

  2. Grass as a noun (countable):

    Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.

  3. Grass as a noun (uncountable):

    A lawn.

  4. Grass as a noun (uncountable, slang):

    Marijuana.

  5. Grass as a noun (countable, Britain, slang):

    An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.

  6. Grass as a noun (uncountable, physics):

    Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.

  7. Grass as a noun (uncountable, slang):

    Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.

  8. Grass as a noun:

    The season of fresh grass; spring.

  9. Grass as a noun (obsolete, figurative):

    That which is transitory.

  10. Grass as a noun (countable, folk etymology):

    Asparagus.

  1. Grass as a verb (transitive):

    To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).

  2. Grass as a verb (transitive, or, intransitive, slang):

    To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.

  3. Grass as a verb (transitive):

    To cover with grass or with turf.

  4. Grass as a verb (transitive):

    To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.

  5. Grass as a verb (transitive):

    To bring to the grass or ground; to land.

    Examples:

    "to grass a fish"