| 单词 | mound |
| 释义 | mound (once / 504 pages) nv A mound is a heap or a pile of material or objects. You can make a mound of clothes by dumping your laundry onto your bed. The noun mound is occasionally used to mean "a hill," but it most often describes a manmade pile, like a mound of stones or a mound of sand heaped on the beach, or a mound of snow that you sculpt into a rabbit. On a baseball diamond, the pitcher's mound is the little rise on which the pitcher stands to throw the ball. As a verb, mound means to pile something into a heaped shape. WORD FAMILYmound: mounded, mounding, mounds USAGE EXAMPLESOn the mound with his face right up to Michael’s, he glanced at the runner on third and said, “Pick him off.” Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) The grass-fed meat, cooked long and slow with about 16 spices, sits atop a generous mound of rice, each tiny grain perfectly thin and fluffed. Washington Post(Dec 28, 2016) Those gaudy numbers, especially on the mound, represented two sides of the same coin to father Jim. Washington Times(Dec 27, 2016) 1n a collection of objects laid on top of each other Syn|Hypo|Hyper agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus, heap, pile compost heap, compost pile a heap of manure and vegetation and other organic residues that are decaying to become compost dunghill, midden, muckheap, muckhilla heap of dung or refuse scrapheappile of discarded metal shocka pile of sheaves of grain set on end in a field to dry; stalks of Indian corn set up in a field slagheappile of waste matter from coal mining etc stackan orderly pile funeral pyre, pyrewood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite woodpilea pile or stack of wood to be used for fuel stockpilea storage pile accumulated for future use hayrick, haystack, ricka stack of hay accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection several things grouped together or considered as a whole 2n structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones they built small mounds to hide behind Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper hill Antonine Wall a fortification 37 miles long across the narrowest part of southern Scotland (between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde); built in 140 to mark the frontier of the Roman province of Britain Great Wall of Chinaa fortification 1,500 miles long built across northern China in the 3rd century BC; it averages 6 meters in width barbette (formerly) a mound of earth inside a fort from which heavy gun can be fired over the parapet barrow, burial mound, grave mound, tumulus(archeology) a heap of earth placed over prehistoric tombs embankmenta long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection snow bank, snowbanka mound or heap of snow leveean embankment that is built in order to prevent a river from overflowing bulwark, rampart, wallan embankment built around a space for defensive purposes construction, structure a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts 3n (baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands Syn|Hyper hill, pitcher's mound baseball equipment equipment used in playing baseball 4n a small natural hill Syn|Hypo|Hyper hammock, hillock, hummock, knoll anthill, formicary a mound of earth made by ants as they dig their nest kopje, koppiea small hill rising up from the African veld molehilla mound of earth made by moles while burrowing hill a local and well-defined elevation of the land 5n the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit they have a southpaw on the mound Syn|Hyper pitcher position (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player 6v form into a rounded elevation mound earth Hypo|Hyper mound over form a mound over forge, form, mold, mould, shape, work make something, usually for a specific function |
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