mound

Bedeutung (Englisch)

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.

Konzepte

Hügel

Erdhügel

Erdwall

Haufen

Berg

⛰️

Buckel

Erhebung

Grab

🪦

Halde

Knoten

🪢

Kugelfang

Menge

Schießstand

Wall

Wurfmal

Kumulation

Aufschüttung

Ablaufberg

Kumulierung

Anhäufung

Anhöhe

Ansammlung

Synonyme

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

Übersetzungen

monticule

montículo

colline

tas

bosse

butte

tumulus

cumulo

montón

heuvel

tertre

monticello

ανάχωμα

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/maʊnd/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Geerbt von Mittelenglisch: mound

Geerbt von Altenglisch: mund

Verwandt mit Old Frisian: mund

Verwandt mit Althochdeutsch: munt

Verwandt mit Deutsch: Mündel

Verwandt mit Altnordisch: mund

Verwandt mit Isländisch: mund

Verwandt mit Mittelniederländisch: mond

Verwandt mit Latein: manus

Verwandt mit Altgriechisch: 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.

Sätze

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

Balfour stürmte vom Hügel und schrie Cabrera an, als er zum Unterstand ging.