mound

Senso (Inglese)

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.

Concetti

cumulo

tumulo

monticello

ammasso

catasta

pila

terrapieno

elevazione

ammassamento

ammucchiare

caterva

clivo

coacervazione

collinetta

dosso

🔙

nodulo

poggio

sepolcro

tombolo

ammucchiamento

nodosità

colle

cumolo

collina

montagna

⛰️

mucchio

protuberanza

accatastamento

accumulare

accumulo

sinonimi

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

Traduzioni

monticule

Hügel

montículo

colline

bosse

tas

butte

Erdhügel

tumulus

Erdwall

montón

tertre

heuvel

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/maʊnd/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: mound

Ereditato da inglese antico: mund

Affine Old Frisian: mund

Affine tedesco antico alto: munt

Affine tedesco: Mündel

Affine norse antico: mund

Affine islandese: mund

Affine olandese medio: mond

Affine latino: manus

Affine greco antico: 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.

Frasi

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

Balfour si precipitò fuori dal tumulo, urlando a Cabrera mentre camminava fino al riparo.