mound

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense
2. A natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.
3. Elevated area of dirt upon which the pitcher stands to pitch.
4. A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmounted with a cross.
5. (US, slang, vulgar) The mons veneris.
6. (figuratively, obsolete) A hand.
7. (obsolete) A protection; restraint; curb.
8. (obsolete) A helmet.
9. (obsolete) Might; size.
10. a large amount of something.

Verb

1. (transitive) To fortify with a mound; add a barrier, rampart, etc. to.
2. (transitive) To force or pile into a mound or mounds.
3. (intransitive) To form a mound.

Sinonieme

hill

hillock

heap

knoll

pile

grave

🪦

elevation

ridge

hummock

stack

embankment

bank

🏦

rise

hump

pitcher

cumulus

hammock

pitcher’s mound

bump

tumulus

rampart

drift

group

cumulation

agglomerate

eminence

lump

bunch

batch

slope

midden

motte

mount

mountain

⛰️

pile up

podgy

point

promontory

ream

roll up

ruck

sandbank

sand bar

sand dune

server

steep

stockpile

swelling

tell

terrace

Vertalings

monticule

Hügel

montículo

colline

bosse

tas

butte

tumulus

Erdhügel

montón

Erdwall

cumulo

tertre

tumulo

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/maʊnd/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: mound

Geërf van Old English: mund

Verwante met Old Frisian: mund

Verwante met Old High German: munt

Verwante met Duits: Mündel

Verwante met Old Norse: mund

Verwante met Yslands: mund

Verwante met Middle Dutch: mond

Verwante met Latyn: manus

Verwante met Antieke Grieks: μάρη

In summary

From earlier meaning "hedge, fence", from Middle English mound, mund (“protection, boundary, raised earthen rampart”), from Old English mund (“hand, hand of protection, protector, guardianship”), from Proto-West Germanic *mundu, from Proto-Germanic *mundō (“hand”), *munduz (“protection, patron”), from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂-nt-éh₂ (“the beckoning one”), from *(s)meh₂- (“to beckon”).
Cognate with Old Frisian mund (“guardianship”), Old High German munt (“hand, protection”) (German Mündel (“ward”), Vormund (“a guardian”)), Old Norse mund (“hand”) (Icelandic mund), Middle Dutch mond (“protection”), and possibly Latin manus (“hand”), Ancient Greek μάρη (márē, “hand”). Not related to mount.

Sinne

Balfour stormed off the mound , yelling at Cabrera as he walked to the dugout .