mound

Significado (Inglés)

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.

Conceptos

montículo

montón

montón de tierra

pila

cúmulo

terraplén

montaña

⛰️

túmulo

colina

amontonar

aglomerado

apilar

nódulo

nudosidad

otero

promontorio

sepultura

acumulación

ñudo

base

cerro

lanzador

loma

nudo

🪢

orbe

protuberancia

tumba

🪦

acopio

Sinónimos

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

Traducciones

monticule

Hügel

colline

tas

bosse

butte

tumulus

Erdhügel

Erdwall

cumulo

tumulo

monticello

tertre

ανάχωμα

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/maʊnd/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: mound

Heredado de inglés antiguo: mund

Cognado con Old Frisian: mund

Cognado con alto alemán antiguo: munt

Cognado con alemán: Mündel

Cognado con nórdico antiguo: mund

Cognado con islandés: mund

Cognado con neerlandés medio: mond

Cognado con latín: manus

Cognado con griego antiguo: 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.

Oraciones

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

Balfour salió del montículo, gritando a Cabrera mientras caminaba hacia el banquillo.